The Ballet Code

The Ballet Code ⭑Ramona Maria Schmid⭑

26 when I started with ballet.
“Too much" since day one. The ballet culture didn't fit me, so I built something new.

Adult ballet artists only.
🩰🪩 Ballet class combinations for teachers, tips on teaching and dancing ballet, photos, and related articles on dance.

In case you missed it:I re-openend teaching  #1 from 'Stop Fighting your Anatomy - Start Leading your Artistry' 🩰I just ...
11/06/2026

In case you missed it:

I re-openend teaching #1 from 'Stop Fighting your Anatomy - Start Leading your Artistry' 🩰

I just saw that people are still watching the replay through my email list — and I love that.

Because Teaching #1 is not “just the beginning.”

It’s the doorway.

The place where we started shifting from:

Why is my body not doing what ballet wants?

to:

What if my body has been giving me useful information all along?

So if you never fully watched Day 1, want to return to the hip alignment work, or feel called back to the beginning —

Teaching #1 is open for you again:

DAY 1 - REPLAY

A French bedroom is not a dance studio.And still — ballet lives here.In the small spaces.  In the soft light.  In the bo...
11/06/2026

A French bedroom is not a dance studio.

And still — ballet lives here.

In the small spaces.

In the soft light.

In the body that keeps choosing it.

In the adult dancer who no longer waits for perfect conditions to begin.

Maybe your ballet life doesn’t need a bigger room.

Maybe it needs more permission from you.
Permission to practice imperfectly.

Permission to move before everything is ready.

Permission to let ballet belong inside your actual life.

Not someday. Here. Now.

This is the shift from waiting to leading and to what it means to becoming the CEO of your adult ballet life.

Comment CEO and I’ll send you Teaching #1 of Stop Fighting Your Anatomy — Start Leading Your Artistry for free. 💛

Because your ballet life is not a waiting room.Not waiting for the perfect teacher. Not waiting for the perfect correcti...
11/06/2026

Because your ballet life is not a waiting room.

Not waiting for the perfect teacher.

Not waiting for the perfect correction.

Not waiting until you feel “good enough” to want more.

Not waiting for someone else to decide what your dancing is allowed to become.

As an adult dancer, there is no pre-made path.

Which means you get to build one.

One that fits your body.

Your artistry. Your nervous system. Your season of life. Your desire.

This is the shift:

From waiting → to leading.

From forcing → to understanding.

From asking “am I allowed?” → to asking “what am I building?”

Your adult ballet life belongs to you.

Start here:

Comment ‘CEO’ and I’ll send you Teaching #1 of Stop Fighting Your Anatomy — Start Leading Your Artistry for free. 🩰👑

At some point, adult ballet stops being about finding the perfect teacher, the perfect class, the perfect intensive, the...
10/06/2026

At some point, adult ballet stops being about finding the perfect teacher, the perfect class, the perfect intensive, the perfect correction, the perfect permission slip.

At some point, you have to become the CEO of your adult ballet life.

Because here’s the thing:

As an adult dancer, there is no pre-made path.

There is no neat little box that says:

“You started at this age, so now you go here.”

“You train this many hours, so you belong there.”

“You’re not professional, so don’t want too much.”

“You’re not a beginner anymore, but also not advanced enough, so please stay quietly in the middle.”

No.

Your ballet life is not a waiting room.

And yet so many adult dancers are stuck in waiting mode.

Waiting for the teacher to notice.

Waiting for the correction that finally fixes everything.

Waiting to feel “good enough” to be artistic.

Waiting for permission to want more.

Waiting for someone else to decide what their ballet life is allowed to become.

But what if you stopped waiting?

What if you started asking:

What do I want to give myself in ballet?

Not what will impress someone else.

Not what will make you look legitimate.

Not what will finally prove you’re “serious enough.”

But what would make your dance life richer?

More alive?

More honest?

More yours?

Because being the CEO of your adult ballet life doesn’t mean
controlling everything.

It means leading yourself.

It means you stop outsourcing your authority.

It means you stop treating every correction, every audition, every class, every teacher’s reaction as the final verdict on who you are as a dancer.

It means you start building a ballet life that can breathe.
A ballet life that fits your body.

Your artistry. Your nervous system. Your desire. Your season of life. Your weird, beautiful, not-in-the-box path.

And yes, technique is part of that.

But technique hits differently when you’re no longer practicing from “please approve of me.”

It hits differently when you practice from:

This is my body. This is my artistry. This is my ballet life.

And I am allowed to lead it.

That is the shift.

Not from hobby dancer to professional dancer.

From waiting to leading.

From asking “am I allowed?” to asking “what am I building?”

From fighting your anatomy to understanding it.

From performing certainty to becoming self-led.

So if you’ve been waiting for the next sign, the next validation, the next person to tell you what your ballet life gets to be…

This is the sign:

Become the CEO of your adult ballet life.

Start here:

Comment CEO and I’ll send you Teaching #1 of Stop Fighting Your Anatomy — Start Leading Your Artistry for free. 🩰👑

Adult ballet dancers — if you’ve ever felt like ballet asks you to fight your own body, this is for you. 💛Over the last ...
10/06/2026

Adult ballet dancers — if you’ve ever felt like ballet asks you to fight your own body, this is for you. 💛

Over the last weeks, I taught a 5-part series called Stop Fighting Your Anatomy — Start Leading Your Artistry.

And the response has been so beautiful.

Not because people suddenly became “perfect” dancers overnight.

But because they started feeling something different.

More clarity.

More grounding.

More breath.

More space.

Less forcing.

Less gripping.

Less trying to make ballet happen by pushing harder.

One of the things that kept coming through was this:

When your body understands what is actually happening, the movement can become available in a different way.

That is the heart of this work.

Not bullying your anatomy into ballet.

Not collecting vague corrections like “pull up,” “relax your shoulders,” or “use your arms” and hoping they magically make sense one day.

But learning how to listen, map, sense, breathe, and lead yourself from inside the dancing.

The full 5-teaching replay bundle is now available for €29.

Inside, you’ll get:

🩰 Teaching 1: Leg axis + hip joint clarity

🩰 Teaching 2: Shoulder girdle anatomy + mapping the arms

🩰 Teaching 3: Breathing the arms instead of holding them

🩰 Teaching 4: Artist-leadership + changing the narrative

🩰 Teaching 5: Deeper integration of all teachings + drafting our Dance Bag Manifesto

This is for you if you’re an adult dancer who wants ballet to feel less like a fight and more like an intelligent conversation with your body.

You don’t need a big studio.

You don’t need to watch everything at once.

You don’t need to be “advanced enough.”

You just need curiosity, a little space, and a willingness to notice what your body has been trying to tell you.

👉 Get all 5 teachings for €29
Comment or DM 'bundle' for the link!!!

08/06/2026

What didn’t make sense when I started still can’t quite be captured through logic.

This past week I heard it remarkably often:
“Ramona, you give me hope for my ballet.”

And today on my stroll, I was sitting with that.

Honestly? I don’t know what kind of hope I’m supposed to offer — because I don’t think hope is what you need.

What you need is honesty with yourself.
And then: ignore the noise.

(Oh yes, people will have all kinds of opinions about your journey — trust me — especially when it doesn’t fit inside the box they expected for you.)

And then?

Keep going.

Not because someone handed you permission.

Not because it finally made sense on paper.

But because you decided it was YOURS.

Amen.

I’m working on refining two of my best free resources for adult ballet dancers, and I’d love your input before I release...
02/06/2026

I’m working on refining two of my best free resources for adult ballet dancers, and I’d love your input before I release them.

Both are PDFs. Both are practical. And both are for dancers who want to understand their dancing more deeply.

The first one is:

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐦𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐆𝐮𝐢𝐝𝐞
For dancers who want to understand their own body better.

The second one is:

𝟓 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐈𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐁𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐓𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐂𝐥𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬

For dancers who want to keep growing even when they can’t add more classes.

I'll probably publish both, but I want to know:

𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐬𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮?

Comment below with:

ANATOMY

or

5 WAYS

I’m curious…who here is into ballet AND (a bit) into Human Design?Let me know in the comments!!
01/06/2026

I’m curious…
who here is into ballet AND (a bit)
into Human Design?

Let me know in the comments!!

Yes, adult dancers need a positive mindset.But not the kind of positivity that says:“Just believe in yourself and keep p...
31/05/2026

Yes, adult dancers need a positive mindset.

But not the kind of positivity that says:

“Just believe in yourself and keep pushing.”

I’m much more interested in the kind of mindset that says:

“My body is giving me information.”

“I don’t have to copy someone else’s shape.”

“I can train with curiosity instead of punishment.”

“I can be serious about ballet without being cruel to myself.”

That’s the new approach.

Not less discipline.

More intelligent discipline.

Not less ballet.

More you inside the ballet.

And this is exactly what I begin to teach in Day 1 of Stop Fighting Your Anatomy — Start Leading Your Artistry.

The full replay room has closed, but I’ve reopened Teaching #1
because it’s such a powerful doorway into this work.

If you’re an adult dancer who is ready for a more playful, mindful,
body-led approach to ballet, you can start there.

Comment NEW WAY and I’ll send you access to the free teaching. 🩰

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