Layering in the breath to the moves in Pilates is a fantastic way to enhance your experience of the exercises. In Yoga, we are often encouraged to belly breathe, which is lovely, but only sometimes. I would argue that there are times in Yoga that doing the lateral breathing that we do throughout Pilates is […]
Category: Movement
PILATES: TO POINT OR NOT POINT YOUR TOES?
Should you point your toes or flex your foot? Pointing your toe in a Pilates class came from it being taught a lot in the beginning to ballet dancers and no one (or not many) questioned it, so it has been passed on through the decades. My answer – it depends. When doing Pilates pointing […]
Neutral Alignment
It’s pretty much written in the script when teaching Pilates to talk about a ‘neutral alignment’. Less common in Yoga (unless you come to my class). It can be useful in Yoga to play around with neutral in/out of neutral to see what you experience yourself. The simplest way to explain neutral spine is where […]
THE FOUNDATIONS OF MOVEMENT: FEET
Our feet are our foundations, a masterpiece construction with 26 bones, 33 joints, 5 arches, over 7000 nerve endings, and over 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments in EACH foot! 25% of your bones are in your feet. The body is so complex that science is still scratching its head at many of the functions. One […]
Little Old Me
I have been teaching Pilates since 2009, I am not going to lie, back then I was a cardio & weights queen. There was nothing more I loved than getting a sweat on or lifting weights. Teaching Pilates (or even participating in a class) was the last thing on my mind. The woman I worked […]