The one change that worked: I took up ballet – and learned to live in the moment | Ballet

MThe first ballet memories will be familiar to many childhood dancers: tapes, shoe equipment, hair fixed (many of them). My first class attended in about four years and lasted until the first teenagers, when she started focusing on other activities and studying exams. Since I never planned to become a professional dancer, I did not consider that the ballet would become an important part of it My adult life. But today, in 32 years, is one of my most important feelings – and I am very grateful to re -discover it.

This happened in the early twenties, when I was a lawyer for companies in London. The job included a lot of late nights and office work. I was looking for a fitness chapter that would get me out of my head and go back to my body and stumbled in a beginner ballet chapter. There, I was surprised when I found that I remembered some patterns – the location of the spine, and arm movements (Port de Bra– And French terms. But what surprised me most is how much they feel moved with a group of dancers, to adopt the discipline of ballet technology and myself seeing improving – if only by a small amount – by the end of the chapter.

Equipped with my renewed my ballet, I quickly discovered a large group of adults offered. Vocational dance schools such as the central school Ballet Provide adult lessons (for “fun, fit and luxury”) and there is a wide range available to all levels in private dance studios. It has provided me with myself in the ballet is a way to get rid of work from work, re -call my body and focus myself at the present time (try to worry about your emails when you focus on the perfect. Tindo or Play).

I soon fill out my work schedule, took special lessons and courses and move to Pointe chapters – review these shoe equipment after a break of nearly 10 years.

I have always had a love of fitness and movement – I am now a coach of yoga and plasma, even teaching in the studio as I took the first ballet category – but the ballet offer something different. Many commentators have been shattered Whether the ballet is a sport or artBut both can include: creativity and athlete; Expression and physical technology. Ballet has a unique ability to make you feel like you are a smooth part of a group and Solo performance to feel light and healthy in one moment and to feel the extreme Point pain that works the next day.

More than any other fitness activity, the ballet brings me back to the present time – something that I now appreciate in a way that I have missed myself.