Practice Pilates, and Stand Up for YOUrself
Pilates for the Stiff and Sore: Why You Don’t Need to Feel “Ready” to Start Source: www.shutterstock.com “Your biggest challenge is to show up when your mind is making the best excuses.” I hear it all the time. “I’ll start Pilates once I loosen up a little.” “Let me get through this sore stretch first.” […]
Age is Just a Number! What’s your mental age? Find out here! What’s your balance age? Find out here! What Pilates exercise do you see here? The ability to balance on one leg is a simple yet informative indicator of overall health, particularly as it relates to neuromuscular aging and fall risk. It can be […]
Pilates: because smaller muscles need love, too. ~ a post on Instagram It’s that time of year – March MATness! An annual and worldwide social media campaign with the hashtag of #marchmatness that celebrates the Pilates Mat work throughout the month of March that was started in 2014 by Benjamin Degenhardt. The campaign was inspired […]
Consistency in Pilates: Why Slow & Steady Wins for Life “Progress isn’t about perfection—it’s about consistency” ~ Kathleen Connor Published by SuperColoring Consistency in Pilates is one of the most important—and most misunderstood—elements of long-term movement health. Many people believe faster, harder workouts lead to better results, but the truth is that slow and steady […]
Pilates – Your daily hydration and moisturizer “It’s only a big deal if you make it a big deal.” ~ Unknown With the weather getting colder, my skin regimen changes to be gentler and more hydrating. My skin feels like it needs more nourishment. With our skin facing the external elements, this got me thinking […]
Take Pilates as a Daily Multi-Vitamin Images from Adaptive Bodywork – Biotensegrity and Movement Optimization When we practice Pilates, we are practicing tensegrity. This word is a portmanteau of “tension” and “integrity”. It is used most often in construction when describing a system of struts, bars, and beams that are held together by cables and […]
Chicken or Egg, Part 2: Strength or Flexibility? If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. ~ Joseph Pilates Last month, I had a deep dive on the chicken/egg analogy of Stability or Mobility – which do you focus on first? There’s […]
Chicken or Egg, Part 1: Stability or Mobility? Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body. ~ Joseph Pilates If I had to translate how Joseph Pilates defines Pilates into my own words, it would be: It is a mind-body connection that engages a full body workout. It’s […]
The birth of my Pilates studio name “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” ~ William Shakespeare My Pilate studio was born in the summer of 2019. Super informal without all the apparatuses. Just a couple of pieces. I knew then that I […]
How I got into teaching Pilates Just a couple months ago, I shared how I got started practicing Pilates. It was a movement practice that I started and stopped many times before it turned into a start, and a never stop. I’ve had a daily Pilates practice for many years that I’ve lost count of […]