Women's Fitness

BUILD A BALLET BODY

Vanessa Michielon is a movement specialist and founder of the Transformative Movement Method. Encouraging people to embrace yoga, Pilates and dance via her pop-up events (vanessamichielon.com) and @vanessamichielon on Instagram, she knows all the secrets for making the barre method – a fusion of ballet, Pilates, yoga, dance and strength training created by London ballerina Lotte Berk in the 1950s – work for you.

‘Barre is a low-impact, full-body workout set to the beat of the music, which uses strength training techniques to exhaust the muscles and improve active range

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