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@dalarghanbari
Founder & Artistic Director @highlanderdanceco
Fitness inspired by the art of Ballet✨
△ Mind △ Body △ Spirit
📍Big Bear, CA

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Strong body. Quiet mind. Unshakable discipline.
No audience needed — just me showing up, again and again.

It was never about looking good…
it’s always been about becoming someone I can rely on. 🖤

#disciplineovermotivation #strongwomen #fitnessjourney #selfrespect #showupforyourself by @bodybylar

In a world that glorifies pushing harder,
I’ve learned the real power is in knowing when to pause.

Rest is not a break from progress—
it is the process.

#restandrecover
#trainwithintention
#mindbodybalance
#strengthinstillness
#fitnesswithpurpose by @bodybylar

🩰 Happy World Ballet Day.

Ballet has taught me far more than how to move with grace. It has taught me discipline, patience, resilience, and perhaps one of life’s most valuable lessons: delayed gratification.

Behind every seemingly effortless movement are years of repetition, sacrifice, correction, and quiet dedication. Hours of work for a few fleeting moments of beauty.

Ballet taught me to show up even when motivation is absent. To embrace discomfort, respect the process, and understand that meaningful progress is rarely immediate.

It taught me that discipline is choosing what you want most over what you want right now.

These lessons have followed me far beyond the studio, shaping how I approach fitness, motherhood, personal growth, and life itself.

Excellence is never accidental.

Forever grateful for the art that taught me the beauty of becoming. 🤍

#WorldBalletDay #BalletDiscipline #DelayedGratification #StrengthAndGrace #TheArtOfDiscipline by @bodybylar

7 weeks postpartum with baby number 3. 🤍

There is no luck here. Just quiet discipline.
The kind that doesn’t demand attention, seek validation, or need to be seen.

Throughout my pregnancy, I made a conscious effort to keep moving, nourish my body, and honor its changing needs. Not to preserve a certain appearance, but to maintain my strength, support my health, and prepare myself for the physical demands of motherhood.

Some days, discipline looked like movement. Other days, it looked like slowing down, choosing rest, and listening to what my body needed.

Because discipline isn’t always about pushing harder. Sometimes, it’s knowing when to be gentle.

Seven weeks after bringing my third baby into this world, I’m reminded that our bodies deserve patience, not punishment. Gratitude, not criticism. Care, not comparison.

There is no race to get my body back. It never left me. It carried life, adapted, stretched, endured, and brought three beautiful children into this world.

I’m not chasing a bounce-back. I’m building a lifetime of strength, health, and longevity.

And while every woman’s pregnancy and recovery are different, I believe in showing up for ourselves in whatever capacity our season of life allows.

Consistency over intensity. Grace over perfection. Discipline over motivation.

The work is quiet. The commitment is personal. And the results are simply a reflection of the habits we choose to cultivate.

Strong in motherhood. Gentle in recovery. Disciplined in life. 🤍

#7WeeksPostpartum #PostpartumJourney #StrongMotherhood #QuietDiscipline #PostpartumFitness by @bodybylar

Happy National Dance Day 🤍🩰✨

…Before I was teacher and an artistic director, I was a dancer…

Years of training, countless rehearsals, moments beneath the stage lights, and a lifelong devotion to an art form that has shaped so much of who I am.

Dance taught me discipline, resilience, and the beauty of expression. It taught me that strength and grace can coexist, that growth requires dedication, and that artistry is a lifelong pursuit.

Today, I have the privilege of sharing everything this beautiful art form has given me with the next generation of dancers through Highlander Dance Co.

The stages may change, the roles may evolve, but the dancer in me will always remain.

Once a dancer, always a dancer.

- Dalar Ghanbari
Founder & Artistic Director

#NationalDanceDay #HighlanderDanceCo #BigBearLakeDance #BigBearLakeBallet #BigBearLakeArts by @bodybylar

#3

Pregnancy is one of the most physically demanding seasons of a woman’s life. Our bodies are constantly adapting, our center of gravity shifts, our joints become more mobile, and our cardiovascular system works overtime. Movement isn’t about pushing through those changes; it’s about working with them.

Every workout looks different now than it did before pregnancy, and that’s okay. Some days I lift heavier, some days I simply go for a walk. Some days stretching is enough. Consistency doesn’t mean perfection—it means honoring the season you’re in.

To every mama reading this: you don’t have to prove anything. Listen to your body. Rest when you need to. Move when it feels good. Celebrate what your body is doing instead of focusing on what it isn’t.

Here’s to moving with purpose, embracing every season, and remembering that creating life is already one of the greatest displays of strength there is. 🤍

#PregnancyFitness #PrenatalFitness #FitPregnancy #PregnancyJourney by @bodybylar

Discipline in motion.
Grace under pressure.
Built, not borrowed. 🖤

#BalletBody #StrengthAndGrace #BodyByLar #PointeWork #BallerinaFitness by @bodybylar

STRENGTHEN. LENGTHEN. ELEVATE.

#HighlanderDanceCo #BigBearLake #BalletBarre by @bodybylar

Ballet taught me that my body is sacred.
Ballet taught me that discipline will take you further than talent ever could.
Ballet taught me how to endure, how to rise, how to keep going long after the applause fades.

Everything I know about strength, resilience, grace, and devotion…
I learned through dance. 🖤

#FitnessJourney #DisciplineOverMotivation #StrongMindStrongBody #TrainWithPurpose #BuiltNotBroken by @bodybylar

Not everything meant to hold you is meant to grow you.
Some waters drown.
Some waters heal.

Learn the difference.
Protect your spirit accordingly.

Discipline is choosing the waters that bring you back to life. 🌊

#discipline #artofsoul #strengthwithin #mindbodyspirit #oceanenergy by @bodybylar

Some dreams don’t leave you because they were never meant to.

Keep reaching higher.
Keep becoming.
Keep showing up for the version of you that still believes.

The road may change you — motherhood, setbacks, time, pain — but passion survives when the soul refuses to quit.

Never stop chasing what sets your spirit on fire. 🖤

#dreambig #nevergiveup #balletathlete #strongwomen #fitmom by @bodybylar

Self discipline is the highest form of self love 🤍

+ say NO to what doesn’t serve the best version of yourself
+ keep the promise you make to yourself!!! 💪🏽

#selfdiscipline #selflove #fitmom #balletfitness by @bodybylar