Hey ballet friend,

Do you know where your hips are when you jump? If not, it’s time to dial up your brain-body connection! 🧠 💪

Finding the sweet spot sets up your best posture, and strengthens your brain's connection with your glutes — so you can catch some serious hang time in your allegro steps.

Officially, we call that ballon 🎈 and it’s one of the principles of ballet.

It's also a big theme in my lesson notes as I'm gearing up for for this summer’s beginner ballet. This is SUCH an important skill, and one I love teaching.

Once you've got it down, using the power of your hips:

• softens your landings so your feet and ankles don't take a beating

• gives you powerful liftoff so jumping feels a little like flying 🚀

• trains your muscle memory for “sbalzo” (springing relevés) — the technique of almost jumping onto pointe with a light, buoyant energy

Wanna join the fun? You have TWO class pack options coming up — 5 weeks starting this Saturday, or 4 weeks for the month of June. After that it's plain and simple month passes for the rest of the summer 😎

☀️ Grab your class pack here. 🩰

Jumping for joy,

Natasha