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04/09/2026

“Cherry blossoms always feel like a small reset in the midst of a busy time of year.”

Inside this month’s newsletter: recent highlights (and a few lessons learned), plus what’s coming up next. Module III at Johns Hopkins and a closer look at Finding Flight: a collaborative return-to-jumping framework for dancers.

🔗 in BIO

🌟 Registration if now open for Finding Flight: A Return-to - Jumping Protocol for Dancers🌟DMEI is launching this new col...
03/31/2026

🌟 Registration if now open for Finding Flight: A Return-to - Jumping Protocol for Dancers🌟

DMEI is launching this new collaborative specialty course series with Course 3: Return to Flight: Build the Spring, a course focused on dynamic load and the space between foundational preparation and plyometric work.

In ballet and modern/contemporary dance, return to jumping often calls for more than simply adding impact back in. It asks for thoughtful progression, careful observation, and stronger decision-making around readiness.

Designed for healthcare and movement professionals who support dancers in training & performance.

Co-presented by Andrea Zujko PT, DPT, OCS, COMT, Jennifer Milner NCPT, Marimba Gold-Watts NCPT, RCST and Wendy Reinert

🗓️ August 1st, 2026

📍NYC (location tbd)

📚CE approval pending for NCPT, NASM and NYPTA

🔗 in BIO to register



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03/28/2026

Something new is taking flight. 🛫

Next week, DMEI will launch a new collaborative speciality course with .milner and

Finding Flight: A Return-to-Jumping Protocol for Dancers

Created with the demands of ballet and modern/contemporary dancers in mind. Designed for the healthcare & movement professionals who support them.

Stay tuned!

03/19/2026

Don’t miss out on the first DMEI Mentorship Monday Session of 2026! 🙌

Join and .milner for a small group Zoom session built around real questions and practical decision making for dance medicine practitioners.

Theme for our first session: anterior ankle impingement with a focus on the talocrural joint.

Monday, March 23rd, 2026
7:30 -8:30 pm EDT| Zoom | Free with registration
Limited to 10 participants

You’re welcome to submit a de-identified case or question related to the topic in advance. We will select 1-2 submissions for deeper discussion and reserve time for additional questions as we are able. Pls email your case and/or clinical question to [email protected] by Friday, March 20th at 11:59 pm.

If you work with dancers, or you’re building your way into this work, you’re welcome here.

Register via 🔗 in BIO

ONLY 3 SPOTS LEFT!

At this weekend for Pilates on Tour! 🙌 and I, will be presenting and excerpt from our course, Movement Analysis & Retr...
03/04/2026

At this weekend for Pilates on Tour! 🙌

and I, will be presenting and excerpt from our course, Movement Analysis & Retraining of the Dancer: Lower Quadrant on Saturday morning. ☀️

We’re focusing on two familiar pattern “clusters” as a clinical shortcut: the Tucker & the Tipper. Not as labels, and not as diagnoses, but as a way to quickly organize what you see and, choose interventions (exercises) that can help rebalance postural habits and non-optimal mvmt strategies with intention.

In the room, we’ll connect:

➡️ what you observe in standing, turnout, weight transfer and Plie/releve

➡️ the common strain drivers that show up affecting regions and structures up and down the chain

➡️ how to choose Pilates-based exercise options that match the movement problem.

The exercise menu we will be providing is a toolbox, not a script. The goal is integration into a comprehensive, individualized plan, not a short list of “magic exercises.”

Our workshop is sold out! Grateful, and excited to share the space with everyone who will be there! 👏🙏

02/24/2026

Registration for our first 2026 DMEI Mentorship Monday is now open! 👏👏

Hosted by Andrea Zujko (Founder of DMEI) & Jennifer Milner (Founder, Bodies In:Motion), Mentorship Mondays are small, group led virtual sessions designed to keep you connected to the dance medicine community while sharpening clinical reasoning and real-world application. Each session features a focused theme to help guide discussion and case selection.

First theme: the pesky ankle - when a “stuck talus” limits ankle dorsiflexion (and everything upstream starts getting creative).

What to expect:

➡️ Zoom: 730-830 pm EST

➡️ Free with registration

➡️ Limited to 10 participants

➡️ Optional: submit a case or question on this topic in advance. Please submit your questions/cases to [email protected].

These sessions are open to healthcare and adjunct practitioners currently working in, or seeking to enter the field of dance medicine including PT’s, PTA’s, physicians, athletic trainers, dance educators, Pilates and Gyrotonic instructors and massage therapists.

To register, pls VISIT 🔗 in BiO > Mentorship Monday

We are looking forward to seeing you there!

Andrea & Jennifer

02/03/2026

DMEI Quick Takeaways- from my clinic week to yours. 😀

When a dancer reports an anterior/lateral ankle “pinch”
at the end-range of Plie, start by watching normal pronation mechanics. At the talocrural joint and subtalar joint, this presents as:

calcaneal eversion ➡️ talar PF/Add ➡️ Tibial IR

When one piece is missing, the system negotiates.

What to watch for:

➡️ Rearfoot access: does one side lack subtalar eversion as they approach end-range Plie?

➡️ Talus strategy: tibial timing may look “fine,” but impaired talar glide can show up as a medial ankle collapse (that “pinch” feeling lives here for a lot of dancers).

➡️ Downstream trade-off: limited rearfoot options can feed the medial column “seesaw” - midfoot/ first ray/hallux borrowing motion to get the job done.

🌟Clinical note: Confirm with hands-on testing before you commit to the story.

Your turn: What did you notice during this movement assessment? Feel free to comment. I’d love to hear from you.

01/30/2026

Good morning everyone, ☀️❄️

Happy Friday from a very chilly NYC. Sharing the 2026 Spring course calendar so you can start planning your CE lineup.

Stay warm and enjoy the weekend.

01/30/2026

Good morning everyone ☀️❄️

Happy Friday from a very chilly NYC. Sharing the 2026 DMEI Spring course schedule so you can start planning your CE lineup.

Just a heads up, Module I + Module II webpages are currently being updated - full details coming soon for these fall courses. 👏

And then there were four… Highlights from the Module II/Section 2 course this past weekend. ❄️A HUGE thank you to all of...
01/27/2026

And then there were four…

Highlights from the Module II/Section 2 course this past weekend. ❄️

A HUGE thank you to all of you who traveled by plane, train, automobile or subway to make it to the course. I appreciate each of you! 🙏

Fingers crossed that we’ll have an early spring up here in the Northeast.

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