Great article in this week’s Highlands Current by Alison Rooney about ballet class for adults at Beacon’s Ballet Arts Studio. It features three students who are former dancers who stopped dancing after they had children, and have taken up the practice again to reclaim sanity through the meditation that is ballet for them.

One featured dancer/student is Juliet Harvey of Beacon Pilates, who steps out of her own fitness studio as the instructor, to be the student in another part of town, in another person’s studio. All of the women featured share what the ballet class means to their minds. According to the article, Patrice Shea, 58, who also stopped dancing when she had children, says about the ballet class that it is “the only thing I do for myself all week; I make every effort to get here. As an adult, I feel it’s important to feel strong, flexible and balanced. This class is a judgment-free zone.”

Further down the street, the owner of the new cryotherapy center, Cold Fit Cryotherapy, is also a dancer who pulled back due to injury. While she still dances, she credits cryo treatments that healed her toe and other body parts to keep her moving and doing some dance.

Find classes like this in A Little Beacon Blog’s Adult Classes Guide.

PS: The Highlands Current is seeking readers to hear from in a focus group they are hosting in Beacon here at A Little Beacon Space on Saturday, January 18. Find information on how to participate at the Highlands Current’s form.