After a break for the US Labor Day holidays, I was able to schedule a session with Jacob to work on my turns.
In the interim I'd recovered a bit of confidence in several variations of pirouette, but it as if I'd developed a complete mental block on pirouettes en dedans to the right. The first one I attempted during my session with Jacob felt as if I'd never done one before After a bit of work I managed one or two weak turns, but nothing like I'd been doing only a few weeks before.
Near the end of the session, he asked if there was anything else I wanted to work on, and I suggested pique turns. I had no real trouble turning to the left, but could barely do one to the right. As if a light bulb suddenly turned on, it occurred to me that a pique turn is very similar to a pirouette en dedans, with the working foot in a different position. Jacob suggested working through the motion without the rotation, which isolated the problem: I'm having trouble rising to demi-pointe on my right leg. We spent the rest of the session working on this.
I'm still wobbly on my right leg, but I have something to work on.
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