Grace

I got a beautiful letter from my ballet dance teacher suggesting how I might best move forward with my dancing.

Listen to your body from moment to moment, day by day and you will understand that our wishes, cannot always be honoured.

Make contact with your pelvic floor and train it softly and with respect. Do not compare it how fit it you think it should be, but rather how it can serve you best at present. Doing ballet with an older growing body is finding a new Grace in all of your movements, a new contact with your body intelligence.

You need not get confused with an 'old' image of how you were and wish to be, be yourself and question your new possibilities. Do not frustrate yourself but feel deeply how the cells consciousness and your pelvic floor carry their own wisdom and follow their own rhythm and timing.

Find harmony in all your movements, including the weakest part of your body and never force it…just imagine how to enlarge your stretching from within and hold a little back from outside, like that you can radiate suppleness and pelvic strength. Stabilize your pelvic floor by kneeling down and laying on you bed with knees pushed up against your stomach like a baby we call the wisdom pose or child's pose