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 […]
Category: Mindbody
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 […]
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 […]