We're warming up
We're taking a short pause while Ballet With Isabella steps into something new. Same world-class training. A bigger mission behind it. This next chapter is about more than ballet. It's about how you train, and how you show up – in and out of the studio.
We'll be back soon. In the meantime... keep it moving
- 32 calf rises each leg! – keep it slow and controlled
- 30 glute bridges – lengthen through the floor
- 1 minute plank - embrace the shakes!
- 4 x 30 second balances in retiré each side – if you fall, we start from the top!
- Practice your pirouettes from 5th and 4th each side. Try each turn until you feel 1 percent progress
- An arabesque each side – master it, and make it clean
- 1 minute butterfly stretch – breathe, don’t force, keep your back long and actively push the knees out
If you’ve been chasing your oversplit, this class will change how you think about getting there.
Most dancers assume the path to an oversplit is simply doing more oversplits — pushing deeper, holding longer, forcing the body further than it wants to go. But some of the most effective flexibility breakthroughs come from stretches that have nothing to do with a split at all. The secret is tricking your body into releasing further than it thinks it can, gradually and safely, so that when you do return to the floor, you’ve already moved past your old limit.
In this class, we use the chair as a tool to isolate and mobilise the hips in ways that are precise, targeted, and deeply effective. Working through a combination of strength and mobility, you’ll build the hip capacity your oversplit actually requires — without a single moment of forcing or bracing through pain.
This is advanced work. But it’s smart advanced work
- How to use passive and active hip mobility to release deeper into your range
- The connection between hip flexor strength and flexibility, and why building one unlocks the other
- How to safely load the hip joint through its full range so your oversplit becomes a controlled, sustainable position.
- Chair-based techniques that decompress the hip and gradually increase range of motion through progressive, intelligent loading