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hi Jackie

i love this time body balance

this music and Tai-chi is so good.

love you work la.

Nicole from Taiwan

now live USA

I added a clue of Reaching up the other hand like you try to hold on to a train/ bus bar, so that students will lift their lower side body up to avoid resting on the top hip joints.

And, I think track 7 is harder to teach than track 5.  What do you feel?

also from Taiwan,

-CC.,

I think track 7 is the hardest to teach too. I can get the side lung after a few tries and can cue it to members. But the 7th track is harder to see what is going on because the muscles are not major muscles.

Hello!  I have found track 5 to be the most challenging track in release 36 to teach.  I think it is because the moves are new to our members and can be hard to describe briefly.  I have found track 7 pretty easy to teach, or maybe my members have learned to read my mind!  :)  Best of luck with your classes this week.

KD from USA

P.S.  Thank you, Jackie, for another wonderful experience!

Hola aca les dejo mi  url con un sin fin de fotos de lo que me apasiona entre ellas tengo un lugar muy especial  de fotos tomadas en el gym donde hacia clases, nunca olvidare aquellos momentos que vivi haciendo clases, ya hace un año que estoy fuera de las pistas pero, la llama que tengo dentro aun esta encendida y quien sabe si este año  vulevo a realizar clases..

Bueno nada mas eso , les dejo un abrazo muy grande

Gracias por cruzarmelos en mi camino

Hi Jackie! Absolutly love this release! Music and choregraphy is awesome! Members are really pleased too. I find that the revolved side-lunge is a wonderful stretch. And it's not too difficult to teach as long as you follow each one of the set-up cues as you stated on the video. Also, I find that if I coach participants to lift themsleves out of their bottom arm ( which helps to relieve the compressive feeling in the wrists) and squeeze their top rib toward their top hip ( as in an oblique crunch) they can really benefit from the stretch on the bottom side of their body.( the lower knee along the side to their top of the side ribs). I love this stretch! It is a great way to not only stretch the side of your body, but to help tone your waist as well!

Hi Jackie,

Body Balance 36 is great...great music...beautiful moves. I love the balance track! The hardest track for my class to feel it, is track 7. One of my participants says she feels her arm on which she is resting when the upper body is lifted tremble...could this be that she has done too much before class?

Track number 9 is also very relaxing. I just love thefact that you go back to the beginning of the class with the sweep and reach movement.

Can't wait for the release of BB37 (which is May 19th in the Netherlands)

Enjoy your day!

Nicole

Jackie and Team,

I just had a lengthy discussion with a fellow Body Balance instructor here (Florida, USA). In short, every release DVD I've seen since my training (on US release 27), the master class cues are matched to the leg/arm/side moved. When you (the instructor) say, "Step back with your right leg", you (the instructor) step back with your right leg. You do not 'mirror-image' or 'left-foot' the cue, as in Step and other programs when the instructor faces the class.

I was demonstrating track 2 of release 36 using the exact cues as the master class, to include the turn to the 45. My colleague strenuously assured me that I was demonstrating this incorrectly, and when I showed her the DVD, she replied that this did not match what she was trained to do. She absolutely insisted that she was taught to mirror-image, and had always done this with her cues. Adding to this discussion, we have an instructor in training who was taught to mirror at the recent Body Flow certification here last weekend.

My question, then, is what is the 'correct' technique for cues when facing the class? Should the instructor 'left-foot' the cue so that the class participant sees the leg/arm move on the same side as their own, or should we do as you and other instructors on the release master class have done on every release I have since 27--personally move the leg/arm you call?  Small point, I know--execution cues to me are far more important. Still, my fellow instructor used this as a means of critiquing me in front of the owner, no less; and to tell the truth, I've always wondered why mirror-image cues were not used on the release master class.

All that aside, the music in this release is AWESOME!  

Thanks

Charles

Jackie

BB 36 was great and sweaty for our body. I did find most of the post was very hard and tough but after attending couple of class. I find it more easy and great. The music was out of this world. Tai Chai was good warm-up session - track 1 was hit.....for most of us. Lastly James Blunt song was a great way to end BB.

I cant wait for next release.

Desmond

I loved 36!  I taught the revolved side lunge and I love being able to get so deep into that hip stretch.  I had to come up with some very detailed cueing but everyone seemed to catch on pretty well.  It was a beautiful release and I am working on learning 37 right now!  Keep these excellent releases coming!

Tia

I know this is a super-late response to this post, but the blah was on to 37 by the time I'd taught 36 a few times, so I'll add a couple thoughts here, my two cents!

Loved 36 all around, and people seem happier the more tracks from the release I keep in as I mix in other things. I've used the tai chi and hamstrings almost non-stop since launch; they never get old! (Although now that I've experienced 37's, I am itching to teach that! Just love it, can't wait.)

I have had to be quite firm with people about which leg they're working with for the side-lunge, and remind them to relax, because they always look so concerned they're doing something wrong! But letting them know where they should be feeling it, and asking if they are, they always respond positively. Also on the plus side, I've noticed that the people who tend to have really tight hips have an easier time with this particular move than with a lot of our hip-openers.

Personal favorite movement is the spiral twist; it's so opening and luxurious!

Hi Jackie

36 is great! Holding the poses double time at start of track 2 is fresh and challenging, stepping a bit more into less dancy moves appeals to more people.

Tai chi warm up is very relaxing moving in different planes of motion and fresh with the new moves.

Lee is a great inspiration how he just brings on a bird pose in a split second and stays in there like a statue!! How does he do it??

Love the tops to go with the relaease, where are they?? cant find them anywhere. :(

Please keep the variety coming, the solid non-dancy arm movements, plenty of low options for beginners and special populations.

Just one thing: turning the mats isn't always practical I wish we all had carpets and no mats so we could all turn a quarter on sun sals like you do in the presentation.

Great job

Giovanna

UK