| If you take the big step and find a dance studio | | | | muscles and having correct posture in the low |
| that provides adult ballet classes, how do you | | | | back/pelvic area will help you develop your |
| prepare yourself? | | | | turnout muscles without needless tension. |
| First, go and visit the ballet school, and observe | | | | Feeling the soles of the feet flat on the floor, not |
| the dance instruction in the adult ballet section. | | | | slanting in (pronation) or out (supination) is |
| Before you buy any ballet wear, you can find out | | | | essential. That in itself is a grounding effort. If you |
| the dress code, and the the type of ballet | | | | have been advised to exercise for stress or |
| leotards and tights most frequently worn. Check | | | | anxiety control, I think ballet is excellent. Ballet |
| out the ballet shoes that are either required, or | | | | gives you control over something which you can |
| free for you to choose. Black or pink, black or | | | | indeed control. Your own body. |
| white for men in ballet, and so on. | | | | You cannot be spacey in ballet class. The music, |
| Whether you have a huge performing arts school, | | | | the sound of the teacher's voice, and the sense |
| or a small neighborhood ballet studio, visit, watch a | | | | of your body working, enhances your presence. |
| couple of classes and get a feel for the place. | | | | You cannot be somewhere else. While getting |
| Ballet wear includes your hairstyle, clothes you | | | | grounded, you are learning an elegant and ethereal |
| might want to wear over your leotards and | | | | style of dancing. The best of both ideas. |
| tights, if allowed. Even if you want to hide a less | | | | By the way, presence is IT. If you ever wonder |
| than wraith-like figure under a sweater, filmy skirt, | | | | why professional ballet dancers work so hard for |
| or dance pants, always wear a leotard and pink | | | | little money and lots of aches and pains, for so |
| tights, for women. | | | | long, maybe because it creates more of their |
| This classic ballet wear allows the ballet teacher to | | | | own presence so often. Because presence is |
| see what your muscles are doing, if she/he | | | | Presence. You know what I mean. |
| wants. This is only to your benefit, since especially | | | | So if you have always wanted to take adult ballet |
| in the beginner adult ballet classes, you want to | | | | classes, go. Get the best teacher you can, and |
| know that you are learning correct ballet | | | | benefit from all the wonderful ballet manuals |
| technique and getting into correct ballet positions. | | | | available now that will tell you all the finer details |
| Some adult ballet classes use Pilates to help warm | | | | of ballet technique. That extra understanding will |
| up. This is excellent for developing the core | | | | get you even more grounded in adult ballet |
| muscles. Feeling your core muscles gives a good | | | | technique. |
| sense of the body. It is grounding. Feeling the core | | | | |