Soft Focus

A small but mighty session last night! It was so much fun & we may as well have been a Britney tribute girl group. 👯‍♀️🪩🌟

I will 100% be doing this choreography again because dancing with glow sticks was such a blast.

Thank you so much to the people who came out - you made my entire week!!

Hi! For those of you who don’t know me, my name is Maarika, and I am the owner and founder of .sessions

I grew up dancing competitively and my first job was teaching dance, so the studio is like a second home to me.

Life also decided I needed a whole crate of lemons 🍋 delivered to my front door, so I am an expert in creating healing elixirs.

I promise, I’m not annoying about it, though. 😊✌️

When I was feeling ready to be seen again, I really wanted a classic studio class designed for someone like me: an ex-professional dancer who wanted a good, classic studio warmup before jumping into choreography.

I couldn’t find it, so I designed it myself. ❤️

I have two different workshops: soft focus, created for ex-dancers who miss the studio, and soft(er) focus, designed for people who always wanted to dance but were too afraid to try.

Each one is designed to be inclusive to all levels and all bodies, so there’s no need to wonder which one you fit into. One is just a bit more challenging than the other. So it all depends on how you’re feeling.

I believe that dance heals us in profound ways. That it allows our Soul to thrive without bringing religion or New Age ideology into the room. It’s just you, your body, and the music. And it’s so incredibly unifying.

Shimmy into my DMs if you have absolutely any questions, and I can’t wait to see you in-studio!

The next “Britney” class is this Wednesday night!

25.2.26 @ 8:15PM 👯‍♀️🪩

The “Britney” Class is a part of the soft(er) focus sessions family.

The soft(er) focus workshops are 90-minute contemporary jazz/hip-hop classes (imagine your favourite throw-back music video) where we dance to high-energy, nostalgic, feel-good songs.

It’s very beginner friendly & the focus is on the fun!

The workshop’s choreography also shows up within the warm-up so that learning the routine feels easy & accessible.

While this workshop is geared to make dancing accessible to first-time dancers, if you have dance experience please don’t let that deter you from coming! the room is very high-energy, so you will leave feeling like you got your butt kicked and like you got your studio fix.

Can’t wait to dance with you on Wednesday night!

Lip-syncing will be HIGHLY encouraged 🎤🎶👯‍♀️🪩

Expect 90 minutes of high-vibing fun dancing to choreography designed to be accessible for all levels and all bodies!

As always, shimmy into my DMs if you have any questions, and I can’t wait to see you in-studio!

headed to the studio last night for a closed session to move my body & play around with some choreography 🦋

video from 10:00pm after a day of taking care of a sick babe ~ even though I walked in exhausted, the dance floor is where my Soul knows no boundaries or heeds to the limitations of time.

photos are before & after xx

see you in-studio!

the first signature studio session is back after a long maternity leave!

designed specifically for those of you who grew up in-studio and want to get back to your dancing roots with a 45-minute dance warmup followed by 45 minutes of learning original choreography

shimmy into my DMs if you have any Qs

can’t wait to see you in-studio!

can’t wait to shake our 🥥🥥’s & 🍑s together next month ❤️‍🔥

see you in-studio!

the biggest complaint I see from dancers online is that they feel like their choreography workshops are all about the instructor’s social media algorithm.

at .sessions , the focus is always on the dancing.

so the videos I post from class will always be cinema verité. the camera is just a fly on the wall so we can focus on you + your relationship to the music.

can’t wait to see you in-studio!

Last night’s “Britney” class was such a blast! Thank you so much to everyone who came out to brave the rain for the first class back since my maternity leave!! You made this Maama so happy.👯‍♀️🪩💫

The next “Britney” class is 25.2.2026 and we’re going to be learning moves to TOXIC 🔥

Can’t wait to see you in-studio!

we are in a brand new studio space for 2026! 🪩👯‍♀️

which means we get a brand new set of directions. 🗺️

Bikurei Haitim has moved to:
2 Leonardo da Vinci St.

and we will be in Studio #3 located on floor #1 of the building.

swipe through to the video at the end for how to get to the studio once you’re on the right floor.

can’t wait to see you in-studio!

last week I went to test out the new studio space & holy cow 🐄🪩 are we going to have fun on Wednesday!

the first “Britney” class of 2026 is 28.1.2026 from 20:15-21:45

can’t wait to see you in-studio!

this Wednesday we’re back in-studio!

make sure you save your spot on the dance floor because there are some Y2K goodies to go around to celebrate soft focus being back in action 🪩👯‍♀️💫