Pilates Leadership Introspective with Marie-Jose Blom in NJ and NYC
Pilates Leadership Introspective: An In-depth Experience, Beyond the Exercises. Taught and Mentored by Marie-José Blom Early bird Discount for 3 workshops $2160 by May 31, 2012. Please call for this discount. Each workshop $850 See early bird discount dates for each workshop 5% 807.50 This course is a three module study of skill enhancing specialty … Read more
New Muscles
Spanx Abdominus Can you see how the Transverse Abdominus can be like your own internal Spanx? Feeling these abs will never be like the feeling of crunches. You need to use breath and a new awareness how to engage this. This needs to be underlying with Pilates Exercises. This is from a new app. … Read more
No Risk Abs
No-Risk Abs: A Safe Workout Program for Core Strength by Blandine Calais-Germain Read this book especially if you are a teacher or client w. back issues. You might know of Blandine’s other book, Anatomy of Movement. This is a brilliant book that finally addresses the poor training of abs and the possible effects of this … Read more
Creating abdominals like an internal spanx
In my studies with other teachers, new information is coming up about the cueing of your abdominals. It has been amazing with these new cues, how everyone is making new progress. Smile and notice how the muscles of your face activate. Now place your hands on your lower abs and smile your lower abs. … Read more
How Yoga/pilates/Fitness can wreck your body.
How Yoga Can Wreck your Body in New York Times There is a wonderful article this week in the New York Times about yoga. There is also a bigger issue to address. A lot of students think pushing hard to almost an injury is a hard workout. Many new students trying Pilates for the first … Read more
Balanced Body’s New Orbit
We had a great workshop at Movements Afoot yesterday on Balanced Body’s New Orbit. The orbit invites such amazing mobility in the hip, shoulder and spine. It is also a hard workout. Imagine doing Upstretch on no springs on the reformer!
Best Ab Exercise and it is not the crunch
Best Ab Exercise and it is not the crunch The plank pose is one of the best exercises for core. Why? It is a full body action that requires coordination of the limbs with the torso. When your form is good, you maximize your use of the core. It also requires the body knowledge of … Read more
Get to Core Through Your Feet.
Summer has arrived and here comes sandals and flip flops. I love summer but I never can find a shoe that gives enough support. Here are two great sources about the problems of flip flops, Flip-Flops Forever and Flip-Flops are Great… If You Enjoy Poor Foot Mechanics. Through my studies with Eric Franklin, Irene Dowd … Read more
Work In
Work IN vs. Workout There were so many gems from the workshop with Marie-Jose Blom. To get to the deep stabilizers, you need to concentrate on working slower to turn on the correct muscles. Our large global muscles are like rock and roll. Lots of power and pizzazzz. The “Work IN” invites the deep stabilizers … Read more
Whup your Core!!!
This last weekend I took a fabulous workshop with Marie-Jose Blom on the Smart Spine. Marie Jose is so elegant in language, imagery as well as brilliant in her knowledge of anatomy and its applications to the fine tuning of the body. You must study with her sometime. Marie-Jose brought in newer info about the … Read more
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