Could Your Core Strengthening Exercises Be Making Your Back Pain Worse?
Core exercises are often prescribed for chronic low back pain. Stability and strength exercises can differ. Know which exercises and cues work for you.
Is Your Supportive Footwear Hurting Your Feet?
I’m not shocked by beautiful high heel shoes or men’s slick narrow dress shoes and the compromises they make to our feet. We are all fully aware, while we’re squishing our foot into a narrow stiletto, that it’s not contributing to healthy body mechanics. It...
The Pilates Process™ Approach
We adapt Pilates to the person, not the person to Pilates. With the Pilates Process™ approach our concern isn’t that the client performs Pilates well, though that will eventually happen over time. Our aim is that Pilates serves the client well helping them develop...
Move Like Your Life Depends On It.
The research is loud and clear.
Sitting is the new smoking.
You’ve heard this line before, and it’s not just another passing trend.
If we want to improve health on all levels or increase our chances of aging well and living longer,
we have to ….
Common Cues We Should Question
Cues and images are very personal. Pilates teachers can offer a cue to a group class and get 5 different responses as to how that cue is embodied. The direction to simply “Stand Up Tall” can illicit a variety of responses from improving posture and alignment, to worsening posture and tension levels and adding excess neck strain…