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PILATES

Lots of rolling in the Mat exercises.
It builds deep core control, massages the back muscles, helps allow the spine from moving as one still stiff peice, aids flexibility and articulation of the spine.
Stretches the back line of the body, allowing it to release tightness and that good old myofacial release. The smooth rythmic rocking acts as a natural massage for the muscles and nervous system along the spine.

The spinal cord inside your spine acts like a main phone line or highway. It carries messages back and forth between your brain and the rest of the body. Pilates helps the central nervous system so it only makes sense that massaging the spine creates rest and digest in the body.

Single Leg Double Leg Kick works the posterior chain. Challenges the entire length of the spine

PILATES SQUAT AND SINGLE LEG on the Tower End or Individual Needs.

No one can tell me that Classical Pilates is just stretching. It relies on will and desire and control. Both important parts of your Pilates practice.

These were hard! The bottom one the hardest. You can see by my face at the end. They are extremely humbling and to the trained eye the bottom one is not right. Elbows drop down and I sink back into a Squat. Like you do at the gym.

A Pilates Squat is different. It's almost like you slide down an invisible wall and then it changes the WHOLE exercise and you feel like you have just had to learn to walk again like a child.

It teaches you how to harmoniously use both mind and body together not one working on its own. A bit like a band. I call Classical Pilates the Fleetwood Mac of all Pilates. You can feel the difference.

Join us weekdays. Learn where Pilates began teaching you from the fundermentals. Learn how to move better with us. Classical Pilates has been around for over 100 years.
All bodies are welcome. You never know, it might be the secret ingredient to moving better that you never knew you needed.

SEMI CIRCLE purpose to improve spinal articulation, strengthen glutes and hamstrings, open the hips.

For the imagination, it has a wonderful way of making the body feel like a wave. Just as Pilates works in opposition. I think a wave does too. One wave coming in the other going out always working in opposition. After all we are just energy. The spine loves this feeling as it lengthens the whole body.

To the critical eye, (because we are our harshest critics I see a few things needing to be adjusted. I can see where there is tightness in my spine and where the carriage should be still. However, as a teacher, theres no criticism but observation when guiding a client as each body is unique and responds differently to movement. Not one is better than the other as it is right where we are supposed to be.

Classical Pilates is not rigid. It may not be for everyone either and that is fine but when you are able to move your spine in a flowing movement, it sends signals to the brain that life is pretty good.

FRIDAYS ZEN CLASS is a slow down on the Power Plate.
Not every workout needs to push you to fatigue.

We are born in a world that moves so fast forward, take the time to appreciate how your body moves.

This class teaches you to slow down and hold.
The added vibration on the Power Plate puts the body in rest and digest, helps with balance, works on the lymphatic system, let's you recover quicker.

Just as you do on your Mat, you do on the Reformer.

There is so much continuted amazment and humbling in Pilates. I just love it. You start to see so many shapes in space. All the foundation movements you learn in the beginning take you all the way through your practice continuing to show up in nearly every exercise. They are fundermental to your learning. Thats where ego leaves the room and something special takes its place. Its almost endearment to both how intelligent real Pilates is and how it changes the landscape of both body and mind.

You see how people start to understand their bodies and take that with them outside the studio letting themselves too then become their own teaches of their bodies. Standing taller, breathing better etc, more mindful and aware.

Bodies aren't made in one season. They are made over a lifetime so that longevity inside and out is the endgame.