Adults who want to begin ballet need to find the right kind of ballet lessons. Many dance academies are very creative in this aspect, and provide the kind of classes that adult ballet beginners will benefit the most from. Some ballet studios combine adult ballet lessons with yoga, or Pilates, in an effort to offer ballet stretches that will not over-exert the adult ballet student.

Some adult ballet beginner classes take students in their mid to late teens, as ballet encompasses a different parameter of aging than other dance/sports/fitness lessons. For example, if you are going into your first year of college, you are eighteen plus in years. You expect to graduate and continue study or not, but be a professional in some field.

Well, if you are in ballet, you are starting at age nine or ten, to become professional. Even for recreational dancing, many start around the age of ten to twelve, so that they can learn ballet stretches and get more flexible for the things that are considered definitive of ballet. Such as learning how to do the splits.

Which is not something you really learn. True, and false. And I will explain. Doing the front splits is something some are born to do. Yet, if you are three quarters there, what will take you the rest of the way? As an adult, or older teen, how can you learn to do proper ballet stretches?

And even maybe learn ballet and at the same time, release the tension in your now hard working muscles so that you can perform ballet positions?

Posture For Ballet Positions

The correct spinal posture for ballet positions, is natural posture. If you are an adult ballet beginner, a late teen or older adult, hopefully you still have a natural curve in your spine. Picture your skeleton, skull, neck, waist, pelvis, knees, ankles, feet on the floor.

A plumb line could be drawn, down through your skeleton, a straight line from head to ankle. Yet, your spine will have natural curves in the neck, and spine. If tensions in life from other sports, or sloppy posture, has defected this, your straightened or over-curved spine, you will have to, and CAN use ballet, to correct this.

So whether you start out with perfect posture, or compromised posture, good ballet classes will help you strengthen and correct this.

If you take one or two ballet classes a week, you may want to supplement your ballet with daily stretching exercises. And also, routines that help you relax your muscle tension. Resistance stretching is one such technique. It is easy to learn at home.

We must remember that joints with restricted ranges of motion are strong joints. Our bodies depend on our muscles to provide strength, and our ligaments to restrict our joint motions. But then ballet came along.

So while we over-exert our joints and muscle stretching, we can do it carefully, and get results. You can learn adult ballet beginners ballet stretches and love your adult ballet lessons.