Find Your Center Wellness Arts

Por Kate Feinberg Robins Encontrar tu centro es conocer y honrar a ti mismo .  Conocer y honrar a nosotros mismos puede ser tan simple como entender qué funciona y no funciona para nosotros en nuestras rutinas diarias. Toma un momento para pensar sobre una de tus prácticas de bienestar. Podría ser capoeira, Pilates, activismo social, o cualquier otra cosa. ¿Cómo te acercas a esta práctica? ¿Qué está funcionando y qué no está funcionando? ¿Qué te hace sentir bien y qué no te hace sentir bien? ¿Hay ajustes que podrías hacer fácilmente? Recuerda que estamos siempre en flujo, y lo que nos funciona en este momento puede que no nos servirá tan bien la próxima semana o el próximo mes. ¡Deshazte de lo que ya no te sirve y deja que emerjan nuevos modos de ser!

By Kate Feinberg Robins To find your center is to know and honor yourself . Knowing and honoring ourselves can sometimes be as simple as understanding what does and doesn't work for us in our daily routines.  Take a moment to think about one of your wellness practices. It could be capoeira, Pilates, social activism, or anything else. How are you approaching it now? What's working and what's not? What feels right and what doesn't? Are there adjustments that you could easily make?  Remember that we are all in constant flux, and what works for us now might not work next week or next month. Get rid of what's no longer helping you, and let new ways of being emerge!

Por Kate Feinberg Robins ¿Sabías Tú? Sobreuso es la causa más común de lesiones para bailarines entrenados en el ballet clásico. El entrenamiento de ballet da énfasis al uso de los músculos pequeños como muslos interiores, rotadores profundos de las caderas y músculos intrínsecos de los pies. Para estudiantes recreacionales del ballet, desarrollar estos músculos pequeños ayuda a mantener la estabilidad, fuerza y equilibrio mientras maduramos. Por otro lado, los bailarines de ballet con formación profesional necesitan incorporar ejercicios en la rotación interna de las caderas y la flexión plantar de los pies, además de desarrollar músculos grandes como los glúteos y cuádriceps. Este tipo de entrenamiento cruzado puede prevenir o corregir problemas de articulaciones y tendones que se acumulan a partir del sobreuso. Afortunadamente, si nos damos cuenta de estos problemas apenas inicien, y si nos acercamos a través de los ejercicios adecuados, ¡no tenemos que dejar de bailar! En Find Y...

By Kate Feinberg Robins Did you know? Overuse is the most common cause of injury in classically trained ballet dancers. Ballet training emphasizes the use of smaller muscles such as inner thighs, deep hip rotators, and intrinsic foot muscles. For recreational ballet students, developing these smaller muscles helps maintain stability, strength, and balance as we age.  Professionally trained ballet dancers, however, need to incorporate exercises in internal hip rotation and foot plantar flexion, and to develop larger muscles such as glutes and quadriceps. This kind of cross-training can prevent or correct joint and tendon issues that accumulate from overuse. Luckily, if we catch these issues early and address them through the right exercises, we don't have to stop dancing!  At Find Your Center, we offer several forms of cross-training and personalized exercise options.  Contact Kate  to find out what kind of training package would be right for you.  Attitude...

By Kate Feinberg Robins If you've never taken a movement-based class on Zoom, it can sound intimidating, and maybe even impossible. After a year and a half of teaching adult ballet, capoeira, flamenco, and Pilates on Zoom, we have a few tips to share: 1. Decide who to watch. Pin your teacher's video  to keep it large on your screen in  Speaker View . Switch to  Gallery View  to see your classmates, yourself, and your instructor at the same time. Switch back and forth as desired throughout class. ​2. Shift your position and your gaze. If your screen is small,  come close to watch , then go back to your space to try the movement. Stay close to your screen while you move if you need to follow the instructor closely. Once you understand the exercise,  look in front of you at eye level  instead of at your camera. 3. Position yourself for feedback or privacy. If you want feedback,  place your camera & yourself so your instructor can see yo...

  By Kate Feinberg Robins, PhD In my blog post  Addressing Race in Ballet and Capoeira , I discussed Find Your Center’s commitment to bringing race and social justice explicitly into our dance and capoeira classrooms. Here I share my experience doing this with my Children's Ballet class for 7-10 year-olds in early June. This is part of an ongoing effort to decolonize our curricula and educate our students in social justice as well as dance and martial arts.  ​​ TIPS FOR ADDRESSING RACE & SOCIAL EQUITY WITH GRADE SCHOOL CHILDREN ​ Make it relevant.  Find the underlying emotions and experiences that children can relate to. Invite children to talk about their experiences, but don't insist if they don't want to. Draw on school knowledge.  Ask some open-ended questions about what the kids have learned in school, and build on that knowledge in your conversation.  Use what children tell you, not what you assume.  If a child shares their family histor...

By Kate Feinberg Robins, PhD In my recent blog post  Addressing Race in Ballet and Capoeira , I discussed Find Your Center’s commitment to bringing race and social justice explicitly into our dance and capoeira classrooms. Here I share my experience doing this with my 2-4 year-old Bilingual Creative Movement class in early June. This is part of an ongoing effort to decolonize our curricula and educate our students in social justice as well as dance and martial arts.  Tips for Addressing Race & Diversity with Young Children Make it relevant.  Find the underlying emotions and experiences that young children can relate to.  Use nonverbal communication.  Have kids participate through moving, clapping, and body language.  Don't put anyone on the spot.  You may have some children & families who are more likely to have personal experiences with racism than others. Don't make assumptions about their experie...