I have been thinking about this post for a long time, and I finally have set out the time to actually write it… The Difference Between Pilates & Yoga From the outside there are many similarities in Pilates & Yoga. Both are generally taught on a mat, moves are slow and controlled, both can be […]
Category: Pilates
Breathing In Pilates
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 […]
Benefits to Doing Yoga & Pilates Online
Moving classes online wouldn’t have been on my list of priorities or even been possible with my client base had we not been forced into it back in March 2020. As much as it’s not a way I love teaching, it has meant that not only have my current clients been able to keep […]
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 […]