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  • Hello, Jungers or youngsters?

  • I don't know.

  • I feel like is it too soon to come up with the collective noun for everyone that's watching this?

  • Regardless, I felt like today I was gonna run me through my exercise routine because even though I don't look like it, sometimes I work out.

  • And definitely when I lived in New York, I always came to see Mary Helen Bowers, owner of Ballet Beautiful.

  • And she made sure that I looked elegant, poised.

  • So we're gonna go on a journey together.

  • However, first you gotta get that for me.

  • Beautiful is on the fifth floor of a five floor walkup, which I like to think is actually exercise.

  • This is, by the way, know what I always enjoy doing when I hang over?

  • Still not that eyes are burning this to see Michael coming on at Look at the way, Mary Helen.

  • One of the things that first attracted me to come in here doing belly with you was how beautiful you look in ballet gear on the fact that when I was like five years old, I wanted to be a ballerina.

  • So I think valet outfits actually very important for me.

  • That's, like 50% of what I like about six minimum.

  • I'm sorry.

  • 50 50%.

  • So can you help me pick a look for today's close?

  • Yes.

  • So, what do you think?

  • Do you want to go with the traditional Alexa?

  • Look.

  • Well, to me, that's the camera fall, Okay?

  • Don't you have your cutoff shorts here?

  • We waited the river, the shoes slung around the neck, right Does their legs.

  • There's been various inclinations of my ballet look.

  • And also because I used to walk here and then walk out of the class.

  • I used to put your ballet slippers down my neck so that I could show dudes on the street that I was, in fact a ballerina.

  • So if you ever actually seen a picture of me, and this is very vain if you've never actually seen a picture of me walking around Manhattan, I think we'll find that I'm wearing ballet slippers.

  • I'd appreciate it if not what type?

  • You're only trying to pick up babes.

  • I'm just with the with the cut offs came from Bali.

  • Takami?

  • Yeah.

  • Just what lips My exercise.

  • Good, cause I can lift my leg high except like home.

  • It's all the policy.

  • This is the sport of your style.

  • So we have sort of classic ballerinas.

  • Silhouettes The commis call.

  • This one looks great on you.

  • This that this is the pen front.

  • It has the princess Seems the classic scenes that run down the bus.

  • This has the low back.

  • So you know you can You can add a broth you want to Most answers.

  • Don't.

  • It's usually pretty bear.

  • You see, you were overly over.

  • This'd is the sign of the professional vs when your child or in like the ballet academy you have to wear even on stage.

  • You have to wear your tights under underneath your 22 underneath your leotard.

  • And then you would wear a belt for a skirt or, you know your costume on top.

  • But why don't you wear them?

  • Because this is just how you do it when you're rehearsing.

  • Not sure why, but that's how it's done.

  • Okay, I won't like it.

  • Yes, this this weekend achieve and this is the classic ballet tight right to the scene runs as we so from the the toe all the way up to the waist.

  • So it goes all the way out.

  • Maybe I want no bombs.

  • So it's just that we continue to what?

  • There's so many different things.

  • Juice from I felt like there could be a montage.

  • Women here wait first.

  • This is the looked.

  • When can you help me with my shoes on?

  • Because often when I post real classes, I get a lot of cross ballerinas on my instagram telling me there's some very grumpy people in the ballet world online.

  • Here's the way I see the shoes.

  • You can have your proper like you're going on stage.

  • You're going to the Royal Academy for an exam way of tying your ribbons.

  • I don't teach you how to do it.

  • And then there's the half fun.

  • It's about fashion.

  • It's just a workout.

  • Let's relax way, which you obviously are the prep, But let's start by.

  • You want.

  • This is an elasticized drawstring, right, which is nice, so you could just tighten it, too.

  • The place that feels good.

  • Yeah, if you're going on stage, you would basically non it.

  • Cut it and tuck the ties inside.

  • If you want to leave that, I feel like I'm no in danger of going onstage anytime soon.

  • So this to me is more of the typical Alexa way.

  • But what you just did is good.

  • However, it is quite, It's a little bulky, so that bothers you.

  • Don't hesitate to not it.

  • Like I said and cut it off.

  • Okay, that looks great.

  • And then the ribbon, this is the real time.

  • This is how I look.

  • Number one, you have to start.

  • This starting is wrong because you need to be.

  • You have to flex your foot so that your angle is that it's, like, sort of thinkest.

  • Okay, because you gotta have a little bit of given the ribbon.

  • You don't want to go all the way tight, and this black thing is correct.

  • Is he one of flex now you don't.

  • Okay, now, you should.

  • You do this one on this one.

  • Go ahead.

  • Very cute.

  • I love it.

  • And it's gonna finish with floppy.

  • Go.

  • So she so beautiful.

  • All right, so for this, if you were doing the onstage, look started the interior ribbon.

  • Come around the ankle.

  • This is a hard decision.

  • Are we gonna tie it in the back?

  • Are we going to tie it here?

  • Type right on the inside, but it's quite law.

  • Let's do it in the backs of it's a little bit tighter.

  • Okay?

  • Hey, And bring the other women around.

  • You want us to be nice and clean.

  • Looks good, right?

  • Yeah, it looks better than that.

  • They're both nice.

  • They're just a little bit different.

  • And then it's a little bit tight, but I'm gonna tie it in the back.

  • Little baby.

  • Not used to get this out.

  • Tuck it, pull it out just a bit, because I want you to have a little bit again.

  • Exactly.

  • So it's not, you know, cutting off your circulation.

  • Tuck it under.

  • So you're hiding.

  • But not if you're going ch no stitch in and then you have to cut out after so your ribbons don't flop around, right?

  • This is one reason this is another reason why I'm no ballerina.

  • Know enough.

  • This'd is only for the professional setting, but it doesn't matter.

  • We're just exercise.

  • Okay, So today I thought we could show with everyone some kind of exercise routine where we focus on the things that I always wanted to work on.

  • Shark, which is a bum always for lifting bottom lifting derriere Delia Tom.

  • Yes.

  • On dhe sort of alms for your audience at home.

  • This is a workout that's inspired by ballet.

  • It's on actual ballet class.

  • Says that spell a beautiful This is that ballet beautiful is intense burn, but elegantly and under the guise of ballet.

  • But essentially, you worry beautiful outfits, but you're doing quite hard things, and you're gonna have a you know, like a super toned lady like physique at the end of this.

  • Okay, great.

  • All right.

  • So stretching way.

  • We always have.

  • As a dancer, you're always looking toe along a You want to lengthen, so if you think about so we'll just start really easy.

  • I mean, already, it's okay.

  • So just we're gonna step really easily.

  • Know any easy.

  • You don't have to be with flexibility.

  • You just want to move through it.

  • It's gonna feel different every day this fall down.

  • That's great.

  • You don't have to be super technical.

  • The hips don't have to be square.

  • I really think that stretching should just feel good.

  • It's about just lengthening the body.

  • Yes, opening up the hip and the five.

  • This one's really nice.

  • We're doing that right.

  • You can come on her side.

  • Just leaving down.

  • Exactly.

  • That's right.

  • Short stretch.

  • Good.

  • Okay.

  • Shall we start without?

  • Yeah.

  • The other good thing about a beautiful is if you're hungover no two ways about it.

  • She does think about ballet.

  • Beautiful is if you're fatigued, you can do better.

  • Excised in that in between.

  • You could just sort of like, Well, say, I'm on that because that's sort of your sweet spot.

  • In ballet, you're always pulling your stomach endure, always engaging your core.

  • So it's just a given.

  • I want to start the workout with abs so that we get those muscles tight.

  • I just had quite a lot of her.

  • New me for lunch.

  • That's standard for you.

  • Great.

  • So we're just gonna connect with your battling muscles, and they were gonna use them through all the other exercises.

  • So come on down.

  • We're gonna start down here, all right?

  • I really thin, but I still eat.

  • Sorry.

  • Describes how annoying was like, I just have so much of me.

  • But I'm genuinely did, I believe, but you love me.

  • It's true.

  • All right, pull this stunt again.

  • We're gonna take the feet up.

  • I'm trying to think about wrapping almost from, like the sides of my hip hips to my belly button pushing everything thought flat on the ground.

  • And then we're gonna extend slightly, stretch one like down.

  • How's your back?

  • Feeling good, Good.

  • And playing in here.

  • It looks elegant, but it's like how Lift up and change.

  • Take your arms up to first.

  • I'm gonna come over and give you some adjusted minutes to make it harder.

  • A good one for a little more worm lives and change.

  • I left and change gun.

  • So can you share with us some of the a little faster?

  • Okay.

  • Like, who are some people that walk through this door that people at home might know?

  • Well, one of my first client was Natalie Portman.

  • We prepared for Black Swan casual on, and I've worked for many years with Cara Nelson.

  • Oh, yeah.

  • No.

  • Yeah.

  • Lily Aldridge doubts.

  • Then Liv Tyler holding here.

  • OK, I'm coming, Thio Gonna get harder it or do you stretch lower?

  • Oh, go.

  • But not quite to the mat.

  • And then this one No cheating.

  • Okay.

  • I want you okay.

  • She hasn't done next time.

  • Okay, take a stretch.

  • Release release.

  • Stomach lift up in the order to do that again.

  • But the way I wanted to change life.

  • Now this goes lower.

  • Yeah, not to the floor.

  • Do not put your healed.

  • Okay?

  • Don't.

  • This is in I am.

  • This is Oh, go, Mayor.

  • Hold it.

  • Yeah.

  • Breathed Don't premise.

  • Do not reminisce.

  • OK, left and change.

  • Good.

  • Good.

  • Very good.

  • Pulling it that I was hoping you were gonna do.

  • Tell him.

  • Okay.

  • What?

  • 23 lower lower further here now for good.

  • Has a feeling for about six pack abs.

  • Almost.

  • I honestly don't know.

  • It's higher.

  • Yeah, okay.

  • But, you know, you get results for me.

  • We're gonna move on.

  • Then I had to.

  • Do you remember what I call things that I do?

  • What is it limited?

  • It's lemon to know exactly what it is.

  • Why?

  • I'm not sure.

  • Because it feels like acid e your muscles feel like lemon tuna.

  • We're gonna pull this some again and just take the toes a little bit up.

  • Gold, huh?

  • Good.

  • Tiny, take a list of it.

  • Now we're going thio top to toes down and listed.

  • Turns up.

  • Sit down.

  • And yet further away.

  • Exactly.

  • The harder it is.

  • So This is where sometimes I have to hold that ball between your number.

  • Yeah.

  • What if we put this on?

  • It's just experience here.

  • I feel like we can add more.

  • Burn to us.

  • Great.

  • Well, Bugs.

  • Perfect.

  • How does that feel?

  • Pretty cool.

  • Tap here and left for eight.

  • Top it and pulling in good.

  • And two.

  • How was that for Brooke?

  • And three.

  • Where you getting in?

  • Your great.

  • And it's really You don't mind being my Getty?

  • Take on camera, Big Two more.

  • Nine 10 and then just hold the feet Here.

  • That was that colt.

  • Not okay.

  • Thank you.

  • What do you think of this?

  • But I just felt like we were filming you gypsy.

  • You fake it, But I do realize you actually take my ass.

  • I mean, we have to live.

  • It's mean it's me.

  • Okay, What's next?

  • This is nice for the stomach in this position because it gives you a little bit of resistance.

  • Yeah.

  • Okay.

  • What?

  • You do it for a bit.

  • How about that?

  • Okay, lying down.

  • 678 and 10.

  • So you know, a you're gonna lift up and then pulling it and up.

  • Great.

  • I'm lower too.

  • great.

  • Yeah.

  • I mean, anybody that comes in here and make for grunting lab song, every noses.

  • Like, how was your day?

  • That's perfect.

  • How?

  • The flowers got a whiskey.

  • I know what a point to prove.

  • Okay, one more eight usually make you do at least 12.

  • So I'm going easy.

  • Hold it back and you're gonna pulse back and pulse.

  • And you.

  • And through that and for low on nights, you're thinking about that spot between your head.

  • Why am I doing it?

  • Looking at you have worked out for, like, three months.

  • I forgot.

  • How long is Oh, yes.

  • You okay, Let's lay down.

  • We're gonna do it with a twist.

  • Lift up and twist me any good and lover and lift change, right?

  • Exactly.

  • So really suck.

  • It is.

  • You come up and up.

  • Okay.

  • Tell them about your cereal ballet and face an agent and lower while because you look 12.

  • Thank you.

  • It's all about.

  • And you were actually 18 so Well, okay.

  • Twisting.

  • So my theory is all the pounding, all the stress bad for your body.

  • Hold it here.

  • And we're just gonna pulls back.

  • Bad for your skin.

  • High impact exercise.

  • breaks down here.

  • Collagen hurts your joints bad for the face and know that some people like to do cardio.

  • And that, I'm sure doesn't have to.

  • We have low impact area.

  • Really beautiful.

  • Oh, you want to try it?

  • So lift up in change.

  • Looked up in jail.

  • Ok, OK, so we're just gonna do a little release of the heads Just roll forward up.

  • And just exactly exactly what?

  • We took down a full of twins with saving physicality.

  • Just merrick mirror.

  • Realize brown eyes.

  • All right, so let's move on.

  • Would you like to use this lovely thes air?

  • Great.

  • You can travel with them.

  • They wait not saying it adds with this done.

  • Yep.

  • Which is essentially burn.

  • Okay.

  • You know, I love that.

  • So what are we using?

  • I'm gonna do it for after, If I love you.

  • Okay.

  • I think it's so important to take as much time as you can for yourself for your health.

  • Well, I like these.

  • And then, you know, the whole thing of this was meditative in a way, Like walking here, walking up the stairs, getting you out.

  • There's a ceremony attached to tell going to some kind of exercise class, whatever that might be, which is actually just really nice.

  • Feel brain.

  • Yes.

  • And you always feel better when you move your body.

  • It's one of the like, small ways we can kind of control.

  • You know how we feel in our day.

  • How's this feeling?

  • Terrific.

  • Okay, great.

  • So you're starting to get that burn extorting and lift it higher up and two So we're working.

  • Think about pulling that stomach end tight.

  • So for me, that takes a lot more.

  • Fought an effort after their three kids, but just always trying to get that connection through the court.

  • So this is just really targeted exercise its eyes like exactly targeted, targeted toning.

  • Stretch it long.

  • We're doing some feelings right now where you're circling.

  • I mean, as best we can and again trying to engage.

  • Right?

  • So you're pulling in its to engage me.

  • Good.

  • Terrific.

  • I mean, it feels so painful.

  • I know it looks like we're doing almost nothing.

  • It's sort of, you know, it's really hard because it looked like nothing.

  • It honestly feels like it's like I want you to put battled off today's just try for your visa.

  • Swear to go to fire, you lift at higher.

  • I'm gonna come and left you.

  • Thank you.

  • Wait.

  • I just want exactly so that you're starting a band.

  • It's one easy stretch here.

  • You could just come onto back.

  • Probably need to be this down that, but if you Teoh right, it's really nice.

  • You could do this seated at your desk chair.

  • Yeah.

  • Come on down.

  • And then, same thing.

  • You want to pull this stuff, get nice and time.

  • Now push up with the hips.

  • Right.

  • Tell me and, you know, arch your back, just lower and lift and squeeze the but he's under here is so this is the one that looks naughty for very effective toning.

  • Yeah.

  • Good.

  • Do you prefer not to film this?

  • I just would love our percentage of audience of 13 year old males to go up by 90%.

  • So let's do this.

  • Okay?

  • I kind of like a little higher.

  • You have no business in crazy ways.

  • Just that would just show them what would happen if you really want to get through the outside of the size and the But then you could do a little opening and closing, holding him tight.

  • Good.

  • So if you can imagine that any given day, there is about 20 women up here in the Atos doing this thing together.

  • That's what's going on.

  • A handful of models bring the feet together.

  • We're just gonna advance into the harder stuff.

  • Yep.

  • Lift one leg up.

  • Stomach in tight.

  • You know what?

  • Bring your knees together.

  • It's harder.

  • It's gonna be quite a lot harder and down and up here.

  • Horrific squeezing.

  • So you really feel this burn in the working leg?

  • Yep.

  • Through the butt.

  • So this one is so good for lifting and tightening up.

  • All of it.

  • I thought I could interview while doing this by car is actually impossible.

  • Oh, okay.

  • And little good for a change, like Not yet.

  • Okay, Now hold it here.

  • I'm gonna tap down, and that's really nice.

  • And to you're doing a really nice in my ear pain.

  • That's so nice.

  • That is really hurting.

  • I think I've lost circulation in my but really, this is This is beautiful Come and for And I've just you sent me here and take the earnest stretch stand up with you are smarter.

  • I only see my home right Now, let's stretch.

  • If we were really going for it, I would have made you do it.

  • Thank you.

  • Okay.

  • So just released.

  • Whatever.

  • Feels good.

  • Good, very pretty.

  • Stretched the bottom, like, down lower.

  • Great change.

  • Who could move it around?

  • Okay.

  • Showing you want ours?

  • Yep.

  • Long to the neck.

  • Like this one.

  • This isn't your regular life.

  • Always.

  • Because when I have lots of links from here, Okay.

  • Open through the chest.

  • So I'm thinking about pulling.

  • You never want the shoulders to kind of roll for which happens in modern life.

  • Your phone computer stressed driving the train, whatever it is, Right.

  • So you just want to be open.

  • Always fighting that, thinking about trying to think about my shoulders like a coat hanger straight across, everything open, pulling in.

  • So exactly like, somebody's pulling in right here in between your shoulder blades.

  • Imagine just getting a little pinch.

  • That looks great.

  • And you wanna engage the core, right?

  • So, for ballet, really, really straight, But for a normal person, it probably feels a little bit tucked to be that straight.

  • Open down.

  • Closed?

  • Yeah.

  • Closing laps.

  • All right.

  • This is £1.

  • Okay.

  • Wow.

  • Well, a big one we're getting.

  • We're getting really intense over here, but joke about it, it makes it so much harder.

  • Because want arms were going to be using our body's natural position in the elbows?

  • Lift the elbows.

  • Bend up.

  • These were really nice you to practice them summer he's made You look so happy and beautiful cause I feel like about yes.

  • And it does make you look youthful and young when you're smiling.

  • So happy.

  • Yeah, You look great.

  • Okay, so down, up.

  • I mean, it's gonna take a couple of wraps, but you'll be crying if we did 15 minutes of us, okay?

  • I don't even think we could do 15 minutes with £1.

  • We can probably D'oh half of that.

  • This is what you're planning to do next.

  • It already, huh?

  • Good.

  • That's great.

  • I'm happy to hear that.

  • Little circles here, long through the neck.

  • Nice, right?

  • These will never make it.

  • They're not gonna make you bulky.

  • It's a very toned feminine arm.

  • Now we can talk a little about posture.

  • Yes, These things are going great for your posture because you're in that open position.

  • E Keep going.

  • Do not don't drop your arms.

  • Don't, Okay?

  • Don't arch.

  • I had a little bit shaky through my body.

  • Do you feel that just from working all those muscles of just boiling.

  • Okay, down it up.

  • Yes.

  • Generally, we I didn't think about it, but it's usually best to take off the sweater before the arms because you're a hunter.

  • You don't want to, like, intimidate with muscular guns down now.

  • Okay.

  • So you can practice these in the water in the water.

  • Yes.

  • Well, you can't on your holiday way.

  • Low ones, especially our great way.

  • Like I did that with Natalie when we're covering for Black Swan, because it gives you that resist.

  • So our swan arm exercises are like foundational ballet.

  • Beautiful.

  • Really.

  • You can do that anywhere.

  • You don't need the weight's.

  • It's an amazing, transformative exercise.

  • Super elegant.

  • And it's giving you town also also beautiful posture.

  • Good, good.

  • And to you and three beautiful, very elegant, even though that this is where it gets hard, right?

  • You're tired.

  • You don't want to lose your form.

  • Okay?

  • So keep just pushing through it.

  • Good.

  • Let's do these little circles, the low circles, and I'm gonna sign us out on three.

  • So thank you so much watching.

  • Thank you, Mariana.

  • If you want to see more ballet Beautiful.

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