At the barre improve the standards of your barre practice with strength and maintain grace. Making simple things challenging, and practicing basics skills that will improve your movement on the barre and strength in life.
Build supple joints that are capable of bending like the branches of a willow tree. And develop strength in the feet, legs and hips to improve core strength and stability.
Join a movement practice to expand upon the Bodyweight Basics with inspiration from the ballet. Flex over the toes, bend the knees and stretch with strength and grace. Improve your hip mobility and balance with a fifteen minute practice with the Barre Basics follow along workout.
Flex the ankles and point the toes. Follow along with foot warm-ups to create strength for the feet and connections to the hips. Avoid the Charlie-horse, but improve your tension techniques to relieve sore feet, and to improve your balance.
From first, and second, pull down, press tall and stretch with strength. Keep the feet flat, at first — then peel the heels away from the floor and improve your balance on your toes. Engage your core and strengthen your legs with this simple, not easy, squat plié series.
Inspired by the rond de jambe in ballet, explore the ins and outs of the hips. Practice core and hip stability on one leg while expanding upon the standing hips drill in the bodyweight basics. Stiffen the knees and cramp up the glutes, improve your turnout for the ballet and maintain all the ranges of motion of the hips for longevity.
Bend like a branch of a willow, and stay strong like forged steel. Strengthen the core with high tension and learn to coordinate bending actions of the spine. Follow along to forward fold and telescope towards the floor. Tuck the hips, push and pull for ground based core strength techniques that are foundational to a Barres and Bells practice.
Go everywhere, without ever leaving your spot in the centre. Peel a single foot away from the floor and land toe-ball-heel. Refine the stability and mobility requisites of movement for efficiency in every pursuit. Explore this exercise in open space and challenge your balance, improve your stride and move in all directions with strength, purpose and power.
Exhibit stability of the shoulder blades, and express gentle movements for the upper body and shoulders. Tone down the upper-back and improve your technique for upper body strength with the arms.
Bend and extend the spine, tip like a teapot, and roll the ribs about the hips to add strength to our favourite upper body stretch. Enhance your core strength, mobilize the upper back to relief stiffness and experience the graceful movements of the ballet inspired rib roll.
