By Rebecca Sirkel As a Pilates Teacher, you spend a lot of time standing. Does your lower back sometimes ache after a few hours of teaching? Your feet could be the culprit. If you don’t stand balanced on your foot tripod, how you walk and hold yourself will be affected because, as you know, your […]
View PostIs Pilates Mat Truly Effective?

Pilates mat work: do you love it or hate it? It’s not a secret that Joseph Pilates developed his system of exercise starting with matwork. The original mat exercises are preserved for us in his book Return to Life through Contrology (first published in 1945.) But today, many people associate Pilates exclusively with apparatus work. […]
View PostRevolutionize Your Clients’ Workouts with the Reformer Tower Combo

By Jessica Roberts at Pilates Workouts Online Reformer + Tower = Love I love the combination of the Pilates Reformer and Tower. It allows you to easily incorporate the Reformer and Trapeze aka Cadillac work into your personal and professional Pilates practice without needing two pieces of apparatus. This is great, especially for those with […]
View PostHow to Stay Motivated when Doing Pilates at Home

By Lauren Mark Do you want to improve your fitness, work out more, or prioritize exercise on your 2023 goal list? As the year moves on, you might be hitting your workout stride and cementing your habits, which is fantastic! Perhaps you, like many others, need help keeping your goals and staying motivated. If this […]
View PostFundamental Flexion and Your Feet

Originally published in March 2019. Updated in January 2023. by Alison Crouch Every day I say, “It’s all connected!” And it is. Our bodies are amazing playgrounds of connection and we can use that connectedness in unexpected ways. Did you know you can help your flexion, get better access to your ab work and […]
View Post“Feels So Good” Upper Back Release – Pilates and Self-Myofascial Workout to Improve Posture

What is one gadget that has totally transformed the way we live and function in the past decade? A smartphone. In fact, the majority of people in the US spend around 5 hours every day on their smartphones. This time does not include the time spent on laptops or desktops (another 2-8 hours depending on […]
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