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“When you touch a body, you touch the whole person, the intellect, the spirit and the emotions.”
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~ Jane Harrington.
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Image of Royal Ballet Principal Dancers @marcisambe and @frankiegoestohayward by @rickguestphoto.
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Returning to the most privileged and beloved work today. Twenty five years of touching bodies and the sense of reverence is as strong as ever...
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“Ah, kindness. 
What a simple way 
To tell another struggling soul 
That there is love 
To be found in this world.”
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~ Alison Malee : 📷 Olga Sokolova.
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Wishing everyone a very Happy Easter Monday and hope you have all been enjoying the long weekend with this beautiful weather. Nature has definitely been reflecting this wonderful time of new life and awakening. 
Sarah 🐰🌸🌱🌷xxx
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“Who am I, you ask? 
I am made from
All the people I’ve encountered
And all the things I have experienced.
Inside, I hold the laughter of my friends,
The arguments with my parents,
The chattering of young children,
And the warmth from kind strangers.
Inside, there are stitchings 
From cracked hearts,
Bitter words from heated arguments,
Music that gets me through,
And emotions I cannot convey.
I am made from
All these people and moments.
That is who I am.”
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~ Ming D. Liu : 📷 @marchesafashion. 
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Apologies for not posting last Monday, I was doing a ten day Ayurvedic cleanse and took the decision to support the process by being very quiet at home and not being on social media. I now look forward to catching up with your feeds and seeing how you’ve all been doing. 
Much love Sarah x
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“I hold a hope in me
That the reason 
We all feel so heavy 
Is that we carry
A little piece of
Each other
Inside us.”
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~ Christopher Poindexter : 📷 Amanda Demme
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“Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions.”
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~ Sylvia Mathews Burwell.
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Image of Sander Blommaert by Jordan Matter.
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Today I wanted to dedicate my Monday post to someone who has certainly been a hero for many of us in the IG community. During the very first lockdown here in the UK, former dancer of The Royal Ballet, @sanderblommaert, made a selfless decision to offer free daily ballet classes on Instagram along with strengthening and stretching sessions.
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Sander teaches at @elmhurstballetschool and whereas most people would have stopped when work resumed (in his case initially via zoom) he continued supporting us to summer, only changing the time of the class. He offered a total of 100 free classes and raised £5000 for charity through donations. 
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When lockdown came around again at the beginning of the year, Sander stepped forward once more, offering free classes three times a week. A total of £2000 was raised for charity and last Friday we celebrated his birthday and his final class before the reopening of schools this week. 
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It’s not only his selfless act of offering free classes and the amazing amount of money he was able to raise that I want to highlight, perhaps more than anything, I want to acknowledge him as a person. Teaching is a gift and Sander generously passed on all his knowledge to everyone taking part. His audience was so varied from young ballet students to non professional adults like myself yet he managed to find a way to address all needs and make everyone feel included. He made classes fun and informative, his two lovely dogs often making a much loved appearance, and his constant attitude was always one of wanting to be of help. For me personally he helped bring structure to my day, nourishment for my mind and body and some much needed beauty when the world seemed anything but. 
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If you are reading this dear Sander, I hope you know how loved and valued you are by all who came to know you this past year. You really have been a light in these dark times and your dedication to your vocation is truly inspiring. I shall always look back on these times as utterly precious. 
Sarah x
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“I have refused to live 
Locked in the orderly house
Of reasons and proofs.
The world I live in 
And believe in 
Is wider than that.
And anyway, 
What’s wrong with Maybe?
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You wouldn’t believe 
What once or twice
I have seen. 
I’ll just tell you this:
Only if there are
Angels in your head 
Will you ever, possibly, 
See one.”
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~ Mary Oliver : 📷 Wojciech Paliwoda
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“All people are children 
When they sleep.
There’s no war in them then. 
They open their hands 
And breathe 
In that quiet rhythm 
Heaven has given them.
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They pucker their lips 
Like small children 
And open their hands halfway, 
Soldiers and statesmen, 
Servants and masters. 
The stars stand guard 
And a haze veils the sky, 
A few hours when no one 
Will do anybody harm.
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If only we could speak 
To one another then 
When our hearts 
Are half-open flowers. 
Words like golden bees 
Would drift in. 
- God, teach me the language of sleep.”
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~ Rolf Jacobsen : 📷 Harold M. Lambert
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“Do you fall in love often?”
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“Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.”
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~ Jeanette Winterson : 📷 Alex Mazurov
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“In the end
It was the walking 
That made all the difference. 
It took arriving,
Always arriving,
To finally understand 
That it was never about
Where I ended up,
But only how I got there.
I hope I never get
To where I am going.”
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~ Tyler Knott Gregson : 📷 Unknown
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“What haunts us
Is not the silly ghosts 
Or the spirits 
Or the demons 
That we have been told of 
When we were younger. 
What haunts us,
What truly haunts us,
To the point
Of trembling hands,
Quivering feet,
And frightened lungs:
Is the heart wrenching fear
Of never making sense
To another human 
Being.”
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~ Christopher Poindexter : 📷 Peter Lindbergh
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“Just lying on the couch 
And being happy.
Only humming a little, 
The quiet sound in the head.
Trouble is busy elsewhere 
At the moment, 
It has so much to do in the world.
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People who might judge 
Are mostly asleep; 
They can’t monitor you all the time, 
And sometimes they forget. 
When dawn flows over the hedge 
You can get up and act busy.
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Little corners like this, 
Pieces of Heaven left lying around, 
Can be picked up and saved. 
People won’t even see 
That you have them, 
They are so light and easy to hide.
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Later in the day you can act like others. 
You can shake your head. 
You can frown.”
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~ William Stafford : 📷 Mikael Jansson
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“Over the land freckled 
With snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks 
At their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops,
Delicate as flowers of grass,
What we below could not see,
Winter pass.”
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~ Edward Thomas : 📷 Mike Kempsey
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