Better Ballet Turnout Beginner Plan

In this lesson, Isabella will be teaching you exercises you can do at the barre, stretches and how to really utilise your turn out. After all, even if you know all the exercises, you need to understand how to put it into practice and execute the ballet movements effectively or you won’t reach your true turnout goals. .

In this class we go a little lighter in the intensity and focus on the deep rotator muscles as well as stretching out the hips.Deep rotator connection is subtle and hard to find which is why we have to go slow, and think deeply as we do the movements.Take some deep breathes and let’s go!

Now we will be lengthening the muscle with some of my most favourite exercises.You will need a stretching band for this along with two soft balls which you can find on amazon under ‘miracle ball method’It’s key to keep yourself as relaxed as possible in this lesson with very little tension in the muscles, focusing on length and space in the hip joints.After this, when you stand up, you should feel much more lengthened in the back, grounded in the legs, open in the hips and tall in the torso.

This Class one of my favourite classes of all time. Floor Barre is something that really helped me discover my turnout. I have drawn inspiration from floor barres I have crossed paths with over the years and added my own exercises as well.Connecting with the correct muscles can be hard but this class really helps you connect with those difficult turn out muscles we all need to find.If you do this regularly, your technique will vastly improve! Turnout will get better, balance, pirouettes. That’s what we want!This class can be for all levels, though it’s best for intermediate and up.Enjoy!

Honestly this is the class we all need in our lives. it’s calm, relaxing and a total reset for body and mind. one of my favourite things to do is help you all mentally with my podcast ‘A dancer’s Mindset’ and I thought why not include the two things! Stretching and manifesting an amazing life you desire.Prepare to feel amazing with my manifestation stretch.

Now it’s time to strengthen your Psoas muscle. By now, you should be feeling amazing in your body and much longer.Of course we need to be strong. Working the Psoas in a functional way is key here. This allows us to keep it long even whilst we strengthen it. What we don’t want is to shorten the Psoas as we build strength as this is counter productive and will lead to inhibited turnout and poor posture.With the visualisation we have learned and these functional exercises, you will build strength whilst keeping length. This is key. Let’s get started.

This class is perfect for building strength and stability in the hips and glutes.  Perhaps you are struggling with landing from jumps with more stability, power when you jump or simply balancing on one leg in the centre be it in adage or turns. This is an excellent class to target all of these things. Suitable for everyone! 

This class is designed for dancers with a good level of flexibility in the hips looking to increase further getting closer towards flat turnout. We will be doing some advanced stretches to help increase range in the hips and lower leg turnout.