Front Splits Class Day 4

Mantra - I am safe

Today's tips: Proprioception is your body's ability to sense movement, action, force, and location of your body. If you didn't have proprioception, you wouldn't be able to move without taking time to think about your next step. Knowing this, I hope you can see why I have you work on drills and aspects like balance, strength training, inversions (without a pole), and more in my programs. As a pole dancer, your sense of proprioception is used heavily. This also means that learning pole skills is very healthy for your brain!

As mentioned in the video, here are four styles of proprioception:

• The senses of position and movement of our limbs and trunk
• The sense of effort
• The sense of force
• The sense of heaviness

We will be using our balance disk today as a tool to help increase our proprioception through balance.

Items you'll need for class:

• Balance disk
• Massage ball, peanut ball, or tennis ball
• Foam roller