Sunday is my new favorite day of the week. Earlier it was Friday but
I’ve started to love peaceful Sunday mood. Slow breakfast (especially huge cup
of coffee), Sunday church service, no school work, time for relaxing and
spontaneous things... I have realised that ”rest day” is e s s e n t i a l for human. I can’t work properly and dance at full if I don’t have one rest day
in the week. It’s my right and responsibility to take time to rest and relax.
Well, the rest day is obviously good for the processing new
learnt things and skills. During the last week I had morning ballet classes and
lectures and practical classes of ”preparatory gymnastics – aesthetic body building”.
Summarizing lot of brain and ballet work. Here are some insigihts from the last
week.
Spine and ballet
Some of my teachers have spoken about this also earlier but I
had kind of aha moment last week about this issue. Working with healthy spine
will prevent lot of injuries and helps basically everything in ballet. It’s very
important to find natural curves of spine and strength the supporting muscles
of spine. Easy to say but hard to do. Among the ballet dancers there are lot of
problems and injuries with the back. I think that focusing on healthy spine alignment
at classes would help with these problems.
Strong abdominals and hamstrings
These muscles are now on my ”muscle strengthen list”. Last
week I just realized that I have too weak deep abominals (for example to stabilize
my natural curves of spine) and hamstrings (for example keep on my active turn
out).I also have learnt about how important is the muscle symmetry (as
much strength and flexibility in the muscles).
Body awareness
This is absolutely what I want to learn more. I started
ballet when I was teenager and I wanted to learn quickly everything. I had not
time to feel movements or process things because I learnt ballet technique
mostly by visual perception. I tried to follow suit and just do the exercises
with full of energy. Well, I have improved my body awareness but it’s still my
weakness. For me it’s difficult to use and active only necessary muscles (not everything
together). Developing body awareness will make the dance easier and more
energy saving.
Warm up
Usually I come to the studio 45 minutes before class starts.
I open up myself by stretching my cold and sleepy muscles and cracking
ligaments. Then I do little workout for abdominals and back muscles, some
tendus and swings for my hip joints. And finally I am physical and mental ready
for the class. During the last week I tried to do my warm up differently: first
step by step warming up the muscles (starting from the hip joints and core) and
then stretching but no cracking! I think that’s the more logical and healthier
way to prepare yourself to the ballet classes.
Now it's time to set alarm clock on and enjoy the last hours of the rest day :)
- Jutta
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