Dance, movement and alignment for expectant and new mums

"It was only when dancing that I was able to go back to my instincts, and finally trust that the choices I was making for my baby and myself were the right ones."

ELISA REINERIO, FOUNDER OF BARRE&BABY

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"It makes me happier. As a mum. As a person"

JENNY MAN, MUM OF 5 MONTHS OLD BABY

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We are a worldwide team of teachers, each with different styles and passions (ballet, jazz, tango, contemporary dance, pilates, yoga) but with one shared aim: we believe in the power of dance and movement to positively affect our bodies, minds and daily lives!

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Our Story

Loving without boundaries is exactly the reason
Elisa was inspired to create Barre&Baby.

#DancingThroughLife on Instagram

-MATRESCENCE = Motherhood + Adolescence- Becoming

-MATRESCENCE = Motherhood + Adolescence-
Becoming a mother is a physical, mental and emotional change and unfortunately this is not enough recognised by our society. Women, even in their intimate circles, do not feel authorised or legitimate to talk about that period and its difficulties, maintaining a long chain of silence, because no social representation allows them to free their speech.
We, Barre&Baby teachers, would like to break taboos, raise awareness on what challenges and beauties motherhood brings. We want to support women in this period of their lives. We want them to be understood.
We are sharing here with you our international community of teachers getting together to give birth to a danced project where we want to normalise matrescence and break down this cycle of shame.
We will never thank enough our beautiful, visionary and intense artist and choreographer Marie-Laure Spéri to be able to see the essence of us all and guide us on this journey.
@barreandbaby.es from Spain
@sabrina_salsamama from Germany
@dance.remedy_ @jalpalondon and @move_your_emotions from UK
#motherhoodunfiltered #matrescence #motherhood #emotionsmatter #barreandbaby #barreandbabyteacher #barreandbaby_es #moveyouremotions

Dance has always been part of my life. I’ve alw

Dance has always been part of my life.
I’ve always felt dance was a way to release pressures and find balance in my life and when I was about to become a mother I felt a much stronger connection with the nurturing power of dance.
During my pregnancy and later on during my journey from womanhood to motherhood, I lived and experienced deep, complex and beautiful emotions. I gave birth to a new identity, one I did not fully know and which took me time to get comfortable with.
This is during that chapter of my life only that I realised how much movement is humans’ primal first language, here to embrace the changes happening in one’s body, hormones, brain, feelings, identity, life.
Babies also have a paramount need to physically connect with their carers and seek the intimate bond after birth. The intimacy of the mother and baby during the nine months inside the womb continues when the baby is born, through feeding, rocking, cuddling, carrying…
This extensive range of feelings and emotions are quite unsettling. They are also a magnificent engine towards movement. The ability for an individual to welcome, accept and sometimes shape her own emotions is also deeply interlinked with confidence and wellbeing.
These interconnections between emotions and movement became a growing passion which I decided to investigate and study further.
I therefore trained as a Barre&Baby™ teacher as I developed a strong need to share these findings and support others on their journey as mothers-to-be or mothers.
Since 2018, I hold a space for women to explore motherhood, helping them through dance to embrace all those emotional layers. On that journey, I intend to offer them a safe space to connect with their babies through gentle movement.
Find my Barre&Baby classes in London on:
- Mondays 10:30-11:30am in Angel Music Tree
- Wednesdays 10:45-11:45am in Brockley Andosteo
- Fridays 10:45-11:45am in Forest Hill Studio One Pilates & Movement
More info on https://barreandbaby.com/book-a-class/
This is Claudia @move_your_emotions
Barre&Baby wouldn't be as special without her...
Thank you Claudia!

I just found this video from old archives. The th

I just found this video from old archives.
The theme of the month was gratitude.
Sometimes we find it in the little things.
Looking back it feels such a long time away.
Overall not many great sensations when I think back at that period.
But l, it left me with important relationships with the women and mothers I met online that we are still nurturing week by week like if we were in the same studio, same city, nothing changed.
I love nurturing relationships.
Thank you to those of you who keep showing up and Kew trusting the work we do together.
#community #movementismedicine #danceisthecure #barreandbaby #privateclass #relationships

“I’m no longer the person I used to be” In

“I’m no longer the person I used to be”
In 10 years of teaching Barre&Baby, this is by far the phrase I heard the most of.
To which I like to answer
“how lucky” !
Because can you imagine how boring it would be to always be the same. To never have to question any choice, any belief.
To be able to wear the same clothes for years because they still fit you!!!
No no. Please.
Give me the ups and downs.
Give me the stretch marks.
Give me the times where I don’t know who I am.
Give me the new, bigger (in body size) wardrobe.
Because without evolution we are dead.
And motherhood is evolution. Willing or not :)
Barre&Baby is where these evolutions meet and come to life. Are expressed. Without judgment. Because none of us is the same, but we are all equal ❤️
New Barre&Baby classes might be coming up from 2023 as a new Teacher Training is about to begin.
Where would you like to dance and evolve 😀?
#barreandbaby
#motherhood
#evolution
#pregnancy
#dance
#balletteacher
#teachertraining
🙏🏻 @golrizphotography for these shots I still love so much ❤️

Merry Dancing Christmas Keep dancing Keep smili

Merry Dancing Christmas
Keep dancing
Keep smiling
Keep loving
From the whole Barre&Baby team.
📷 courtesy of @barreandbaby.es

We have been talking STRENGTH in class this month.

We have been talking STRENGTH in class this month.
And we cried whilst talking about it, obviously.
Because the truth is, while it feels that this journey is breaking us down, tearing us apart, making us wobbly and unstable, we're growing as tougher and more resilient creatures each day.
Can you recall a moment when you felt that motherhood gave you a strength you didn't know you had ?❤️
#motherhood #dancingthroughlife #dancingthroughmotherhood #matrescence #mum #barreandbaby

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