Balance Week 1: Eyes and Head

Exercises and imagery to try this week from Eric Franklin's "Conditioning for Dance." page 32.

1. Balance on 1 leg and notice eye movements.
2. Imagine the whole face is one big eye.
3. Imagine  eyes are on various parts of the your body.
4. Imagine a beam of light coming from the top of your head.

The idea here is that I feel so overwhelmed by the stuff I'm supposed to do that I realized I need to step back and focus on getting my body back in dancing shape.

That being said I'm overwhelmed by the book (see previous post).  so I need to do things very slowly. I'm starting with balance and we'll see how it goes  this week.

I think I'll have to try sticking to the face as one big eye for Tuesday.

By the way, last week was a leg strength breakthrough. It is indeed all about alignment, muscle spasms, and  trigger points.