This happened to me - in happier circumstances. My teacher is having a baby (next week?). Although I have tried other teachers, this has not really been very successful. I have practiced on my own - I will give you the benefit of my experience in getting the most out of it. I'm afraid this will be more along the lines of what I wish I had done.
1 Identify what you are good at at and also what you are not so good at. don't think I don't need to practice that because I don't think I will need it. I have just started working on shulder shimmies after 6 months of planning my own practices, because I finally realised that although they are only a small part of any dance, I needed lots of practice to enable me to use them in layering so that I don't shake everything else.
draw up a list of things you can practice in 5 minute bursts. shimmies, head slides etc that you can do whilst waiting for a bus, boiling a kettle etc and make sure you do some of each every day.
practice at lest 15 minutes every day. We benefit more from shorter, more regular sessions.
Watch some good dancing and it will sink in. I try to watch a dvd or some YouTube when I am too tired. I remember reading someon say that after filming some dvd the technicians who had never danced before had learnt how to do some moves properly.
If you are lacking in feed back. Make a practice diary to note down what you praactice each week, and write down when you think you got something.
you could also film yourself before and after.
I'm off now to put some of that into practice myself!! I thnik I should take my own advice!!!
Good luck
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