Movin' Easy Dancewear

Pilates brings me new, sends my heart through, stays with my day, never ends when I pay.

 Pilates finds me a phrase beginning with my lats and speaking through my back crossing to my hips and my abs.

Pilates catches me in mid air pushing on the earth rising through these ashes to breath life into a new born balloon stretching to a new strength.

In memory of a ballet dancer, Pilates lifts my whole body to anticipate the next move.

In memory of the grand music of ballet, Pilates uses one move to fill the space of my entire body and to easily capture the rounded space in which I live.

In tandem with a ballet dancer, four corners of my torso send out a unison trumpet call that commands first the attention and then the action of every dancer in every muscle of every cell from my metatarsal to my cranial tip.

Clear and firm in her direction, she blossoms one Pilates move into the next and I only go along for the ride.  Do you dance I ask and she says she is too old at twenty or something less.  So I say, “Well you know there is more to know and especially if you dance, your teaching will expand all this creativity you are molding for me and all the rest.”

So the future flashed before our eyes and there she was at The Pilates Studio Austin leading me once more beyond where my body wanted to go.  “What you said about dance is true, I am really feeling stronger in my moves.”  She said it without knowing the smile that lit up her whole body.  And then she let it slip, the belly dance that took so much concentration to ride the tide, the ballet that passed the brilliance of her body into thin air, and the splash of energy in learning Salsa first time at Copa’s.  Then She said,”I think I will go learn Salsa.  Uptown Dance is right near my house.”