Thank you! It IS a drastic change. It's been really really hard, in fact. It's like I don't even know how to carry it on that side. Secretly, I'm hoping this is the key to the problems I have with multiple turns on my right leg. So far I'm still hopeless but maybe in a while...
this is no small feat -- i've often tried to do this {i sling everything on my right shoulder} sometimes for maybe like 5 minutes i can hold a bag in left hand & i can hold things [particularily babies} with both arms.
so i commend you for doing this.
however,i regret to inform you that although this might help a little bit with your port de bras [by evening out the equilbrium in acroos your shoulders -- although it would be better still if you carried things "backpack" style or in your hands -- plural the idea being that you need to distribute the weight equally & also got some massages to ease the tension in your trapezoids & shoulder joints] it is unlikely that this has any to do with the fact that you turn better to the right.
Most dancers do things better [or feel more comfortable, find it easier, feel a i.e. preference] for doing certain actions/steps on one side rather than another -- it's somewhat similar to the "dominant" hand thing we all manifest but not quite the same because often you can turn better to one side but the other side will be the "better/prefered" one for developpe, battement, beats, etc.
to make matters worse allof this is reenforced because 99.99% of all dance teachers start exercises on the right side. actually the best way to "even out" your dancing is to do everything on the left side first including learning the exercises & combinations.
unfortunately most dance teachers & your fellow students will not appreciate it if you are facing in the "wrong" direction @ the barre or going against the directional flow of center & traveling combination tide
after i understood this principle [that i could do things better on the left side if i learned it 1st on the left & then transferred it to the right side] i use to do the barre left & than right. i taught this way also [i would alternate the starting side @ the barre in classes] but then [as you well know] i get a perverse kick out of going against the tide
my practical advice therefore is to practice on your own starting always with the left side
As it happens this is usually my *good* side--the one we start on, anyway.
I was hoping the bag thing would work by, um, magic. Or something.
But I've been noticing lately that the left side of my body is seriously higher than the left now--when passe my left him just will not stay down and then the shoulder is always higher and I think I get freaked out when I turn on that side because it feels off so I probably make it worse anyway. Because I can do one turn just fine, so why should two be a problem? (It's not like I'm not still in balance at the end of it.) But I feel like if I get used to the feeling of my shoulder being more flat on that side things will click more. Last week I was trying, when I turned, to just think about pressing my shoulder down and it seemed to help--though that of course could have been because I had something else to focus on!
Also it does kind of feel good to have that weight on my shoulder (the other one is starting to ache slightly though--go figure--I'll have to switch on and off?). When I have it on I can sort of imagine an imaginary weight on my left hip as well so that can drop more into alignment too. But yoga would be good too.
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For me, it would be like listening to the phone on my right ear instead of my left.
I commend you for being willing to make such a drastic change!
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At least that's what happened last week. :-)
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so i commend you for doing this.
however,i regret to inform you that although this might help a little bit with your port de bras [by evening out the equilbrium in acroos your shoulders -- although it would be better still if you carried things "backpack" style or in your hands -- plural the idea being that you need to distribute the weight equally & also got some massages to ease the tension in your trapezoids & shoulder joints] it is unlikely that this has any to do with the fact that you turn better to the right.
Most dancers do things better [or feel more comfortable, find it easier, feel a i.e. preference] for doing certain actions/steps on one side rather than another -- it's somewhat similar to the "dominant" hand thing we all manifest but not quite the same because often you can turn better to one side but the other side will be the "better/prefered" one for developpe, battement, beats, etc.
to make matters worse allof this is reenforced because 99.99% of all dance teachers start exercises on the right side. actually the best way to "even out" your dancing is to do everything on the left side first including learning the exercises & combinations.
unfortunately most dance teachers & your fellow students will not appreciate it if you are facing in the "wrong" direction @ the barre or going against the directional flow of center & traveling combination tide
after i understood this principle [that i could do things better on the left side if i learned it 1st on the left & then transferred it to the right side] i use to do the barre left & than right. i taught this way also [i would alternate the starting side @ the barre in classes] but then [as you well know] i get a perverse kick out of going against the tide
my practical advice therefore is to practice on your own starting always with the left side
yoga helps to balance out your body also
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I was hoping the bag thing would work by, um, magic. Or something.
But I've been noticing lately that the left side of my body is seriously higher than the left now--when passe my left him just will not stay down and then the shoulder is always higher and I think I get freaked out when I turn on that side because it feels off so I probably make it worse anyway. Because I can do one turn just fine, so why should two be a problem? (It's not like I'm not still in balance at the end of it.) But I feel like if I get used to the feeling of my shoulder being more flat on that side things will click more. Last week I was trying, when I turned, to just think about pressing my shoulder down and it seemed to help--though that of course could have been because I had something else to focus on!
Also it does kind of feel good to have that weight on my shoulder (the other one is starting to ache slightly though--go figure--I'll have to switch on and off?). When I have it on I can sort of imagine an imaginary weight on my left hip as well so that can drop more into alignment too. But yoga would be good too.
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