movin on up!

Day 3

Sorry dancers. I’m totally behind on my blogging. A long long time ago, it seems, we focused on our upper body and our arms. The one image that I found helpful that day was an eyeball on the front of each shoulder. So when we think of our posture, it’s less about pushing our shoulders back, which often causes us to splay open our ribs. Instead this image helps us to think of simply opening our “eyes”, opening the front of the chest. In general, we always want to think of expansiveness, openness, three-dimensionality. And here we’re already multi-tasking…reaching our arms from our back, especially our latissimus dorsi muscles, all the while, still keeping our pelvis and tailbone dropped like how we practiced the previous week. Ugh, yes, I know so much to think about. But luckily the exercises we did across the floor, and the combination/routine we’ve been working on were very much the same as last week. Only this time we brought our attention to our upper half. However, we did do a few arms exercises in center: opening to second and closing to first position, shoulder and arm circles, etc. – that got a few people huffing and puffing! But hopefully the healthy burn made you more aware of some back muscles that you may have neglected in the past. Anyway, this week concluded our sessions that were focused on certain parts of the body and a little bit of functional anatomy. The following session, touches on balances and extensions…meaning lots of stretching! I’ll also try posting pics and hopefully some video soon…