Pilates teachers can really change lives. They teach HOW to move, they help to recover after serious injuries and surgeries, they develop body awareness in their students, they share empathy and encouragement, they are sensitive to physical and mental issues, they realign body and mind, they empower, inspire and they help find freedom and joy […]
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One of the biggest shockers that every woman experiences after having her first baby is that her stomach still looks 6 months pregnant for quite a while. I remember taking my 1-month old twins for a walk and several “caring” women asking me when I was due. Before I had my first set of twins […]
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by Sunni Almond I’ve been on this Pilates journey for many years now, and it’s only in the last few that I think I’ve finally got the idea. WHY has it taken me SO long to figure it out? It’s really simple and yet so complicated all at the same time. This is not an […]
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What is the first image that pops up in your head when you hear “Pilates studio”? I bet you were thinking about a Pilates Reformer, after all it is the most recognized piece of Pilates apparatus. Despite hands-down popularity of the Reformer these days we often forget that Pilates (Contrology back then) started with just […]
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“First Educate the child” Joseph Pilates was very straightforward in his vision to teach Contrology to youth. “In childhood, habits are easily formed – good and bad. Why not then concentrate on the formation of only good habits and thus avoid the necessity later on in life of attempting to correct bad habits and substituting […]
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We are in the health selling business. We represent (or should represent) vibrant good health that doesn’t come out of a bottle or involve a scalpel. The elders that I was fortunate enough to meet, Kathleen Stafford Grant, Mary Bowen, Ron Fletcher and Lolita san Miguel were all dynamic movers to the end. Yet teaching […]
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