About Conscious P
Conscious P
(Prince Sensei)
An instructor who teaches street foundations and inner evolution at the same time.
A street dancer from Los Angeles. He began popping in 2008 and moved to Okinawa in 2010. He has taught dance from Okinawa ever since — more than ten years now.
He specializes in hip-hop, popping, waving, house foundations, and freestyle, and continues to teach and compete across Japan, Korea, and the United States.
He is also an English teacher, so lessons naturally include moments of English. Together with his students, he has grown a sense of connection reaching from Okinawa out to the world.
My job is not to hand out choreography. It is to stay with each student until they make peace with their own body and can dance their own life. That is the root of FreeSpirit Dance Method.
What I Value as an Instructor
Three Turning Points
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“What is dance actually for?”
Growing up in the U.S., I started dancing inside hip-hop and street dance culture, where "being yourself" and "expression" were what mattered. The goal was never to copy anyone — it was to grow your own sensibility, interpretation, and voice through movement.
After coming to Japan, I saw a completely different approach. Technically skilled — yet many dancers were copying their teachers and peers move for move. Individuality and freedom were quietly being replaced by imitation.
That contrast never left my mind.
“What is dance really for?”
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Meeting Paradox & Dimension (Tokyo, 2014)
As my training deepened, I dove into the roots and philosophy of hip-hop freestyle culture. I learned from pioneers like Buddha Stretch and Link, exploring groove, feeling, party culture, and the link between music and movement.
In 2014, I met Paradox and Dimension in Tokyo. Their dancing inspired me — but what struck me even harder was the way they thought.
They took movement apart, studied it deeply, and rebuilt it through their own system and philosophy. Not choreography, not just freestyle — their dance was awareness, inquiry, identity, and understanding itself.
That encounter changed my perspective at the root. -
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How FreeSpirit Dance Method Was Born
Later, in Los Angeles, I took ShowTyme’s hip-hop and house classes and met Shaadow Sephiroth. Through sessions, conversations, his philosophy, and his project “Noelab,” my understanding of freestyle expanded further. In Nickel Yudat’s Beyond The Moves and Daniel Future Kelly’s private lessons, I kept exploring the deep relationship between movement, mindset, musicality, and identity.
All of these experiences eventually took the shape of the FreeSpirit Dance Method. In 2018 I began teaching in Okinawa as FreeSpirit Dance Academy, and what I built there became the foundation of this method.
What FreeSpirit aims for is that dancers become themselves — not copies, not trends, not empty movement, but real individuals with their own voice, feel, and connection to music.
Discovering who you are through dance. That is the heart of this method.
Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going
In 2010, I came to Okinawa.
I had been popping in Los Angeles for two years. Choosing to teach dance in Okinawa was, at the time, a real adventure.
More than ten years since founding FREE∞SPIRIT DANCE ACADEMY. I have met so many students and taught a freestyle that refuses to be boxed into a genre. Never force a form. Always leave room for self-expression. From the very beginning, that is what mattered to me.
From ACADEMY to METHOD.
These past few years I have kept battling across Japan — Okinawa, Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo — and in Korea and the United States. Somewhere inside the winning and losing, I felt myself go one level deeper.
It is not only technique. Mindset, breath, meditation. When those are truly woven into one, a dancer becomes able to dance their own life. And so: from a school, to a method.
Street foundations. The evolution of awareness.