Ballet and Body Issues
In this episode I reflect on the experience of taking my 4 year old daughter, Maya, to her first ballet class. This was a magical, proud, and beautiful moment – definitely one for the mom books. However, it also took me down memory lane in terms of my own ballet journey as a child. I started ballet as a way to correct my feet. I was born with a pretty severe case of “pigeon toes”. As a result, my options were either to break my legs and reset them or to start ballet super young and do the work to turn out my legs slowly. Of course, if you know anything about ballet, turn out is key. Sadly, my body …