Most ballet dancers feel that all they want to do is dance, but a well rounded dancer can definitely benefit from a wide variety of different exercise and strengthening methods out there. Your ballet dancing can only be improved by using them. Some of them include pilates, resistance training, yoga, gyro tonic and floor barre. These all work on improving your overall strength and stamina, and help you to overcome specific weaknesses. These exercises can only complement a dancers regime. You will become a stronger ballet dancer by doing more than just dancing. Today I will focus briefly on Pilates and Yoga. I will provide a more detailed explanation of each on my blog.
Pilates:
Pilates has had a recent surge in popularity, among ballet dancers and non ballet dancers. This makes it looks like a fitness fad, but in actual fact it has been around for over eighty years. George Balanchine and Martha Graham were among the first in the ballet world to recognise Pilates as being especially beneficial for dancers.
Pilates was developed by Joseph Pilates, who turned his knowledge of boxing, yoga, gymnastics and martial art, as well as his experience rehabilitating patients from World War I, into a system of exercises meant to increase a persons overall strength and flexibility, without creating bulky muscles. Pilates focuses on creating a super strong core that will support all the other movements in ballet dancing. Pilates can also target those weak lower back muscles and enable the dancer to perform the ballet exercises correctly.
Pilates will also discover and correct imbalances and misalignments that can hinder a ballet dancer's progress.
Pilates for beginners is usually taken one on one with an instructor, to establish alignment, breathing, gaze and you will learn to do each exercise perfectly. Once you become more advanced you should be able to work in groups or even on your own.
Yoga:
Yoga trains a union in body and mind. In fact the word yoga means union. This is an ancient Indian practice and is meant to become a life long discipline.
The benefits of yoga in ballet dancing is to develop focus, breathing, easing tense muscles, improved balance and increased flexibility. Yoga can be a great destressor and a soothing focus on the intense training regimen that ballet dancers often have.
Yoga is performed slowly with purposeful breathing. Each stretch is followed by a stretch in the opposite direction. Yoga doesn't have the beautiful lines that ballet does, but each movement is performed for the therapeutic benefits.
Yoga is popular everywhere, and there are a variety of styles from which to choose, its up to you to choose the class that suits you.
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Michel Maling
I love Dancing and I love Online Marketing. I currently teach Ballet, Modern, Hip Hop, Social Ballroom and Latin American. Dancing is my passion and I know there are many others out there who love it as much as I do, so what are you waiting for, DANCE to the tune of Life.
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