Another Saturday, another trip to the ballet studio.\u00a0 It\u2019s the start of spring break so the class was extremely small and we got the biggest studio meaning lots of space to dance!\u00a0 If only if I was actually able to utilize the space\u2026<\/p>\n
Class started well with my balance being spot on and body feeling good.\u00a0 However, as barre drug on (and I mean DRUG), my body started rebelling.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been having a lot of hip\/pelvic discomfort through the 2nd<\/sup> half of this pregnancy and while sometimes dancing helps loosen things up, moving too fast into 5th<\/sup> position (standard ballerina position with heel crossed to opposite toe) causes me to overuse my hip and pelvic muscles since my stabilizing abdominal muscles have been MIA for months.\u00a0 This is exactly what happened today.\u00a0 By the time we moved into the center floor work, I could hardly stand up, let alone move my legs around.<\/p>\n So, down to the floor I went, stretching every bit of my being and feeling better by the end of class while everyone else continued on their ballet journey. Although I was frustrated with not being able to finish out class, by the end I was thankful for the opportunity to be able to observe my fellow dancers.\u00a0 I rarely take the time to watch my classmates as I\u2019m usually concentrating on remembering the combinations, correcting myself, and doing my best to not fall down (either from lack of balance or lightheadedness.)<\/p>\n The class I take is an open-level adult ballet class and the students represent a huge range of abilities.\u00a0 Some of the dancers are brand new and still trying to work out what is what in the weird world of ballet.\u00a0 Some of the others clearly have previous training though I\u2019m not sure if it was childhood training or a knack that has been developed as adults.\u00a0 I even wonder if some were professional dancers in a previous life.<\/p>\n What I learned from observing class today, though, was despite a dancers ability or previous training, each has her own way of learning, performing and coping with class.\u00a0 Some dancers push through no matter how many mistakes they make or how confused they are while others give up after a small flub or never even try if they aren\u2019t sure.\u00a0 I also realized I had formed misconceptions about many of the dancers.\u00a0 Some of the women that appear to have the least background are actually some of the best dancers (maybe not technically perfect, but definitely know what they\u2019re doing).<\/p>\n I guess it\u2019s this way everywhere you go, in every situation.\u00a0 We\u2019re always taught not to judge others by what we see, but I think it\u2019s natural.\u00a0 You take the information you\u2019re given (and sometimes it\u2019s only visual) and form opinions.\u00a0 Where people go wrong too often, though, is acting on their judgments before seeking more information to justify their assumptions.<\/p>\n I\u2019m so proud to be a part of this wonderful group of women who for whatever reason choose to spend their free time in the ballet studio.\u00a0 Whether it\u2019s for exercise, a love for the art or a burning desire to dance, we come together each week and give it our all, most of us leaving everything we have on the dance floor.\u00a0 And then we head our separate ways, resuming our other lives, until we meet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Another Saturday, another trip to the ballet studio.\u00a0 It\u2019s the start of spring break so the class was extremely small and we got the biggest studio meaning lots of space to dance!\u00a0 If only if I was actually able to utilize the space\u2026 Class started well with my balance being spot on and body feeling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ballerina-mama","category-mommy-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beyondmommying.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}