Our bodies should be like a Alexander Calder mobile.  As one body part moves, there is a response in the entire system.  Even lifting an arm, the rest of the body organizes to facilitate this simple movement.

When we have habitual poor habits of posture and/or repetitive stress from doing the same movement over and over again, the body disorganizes.  When one part of the body is not moving correctly, it affects the entire body.  Look at it like a car with misaligned wheels.   The tires out of line will put stress on the car parts from this imbalance.

This is what happens to the body.  If the upper body is slumped forward, there is a chain reaction to the rest of the body.  With the upper body in constant flexion, the back body is kicked out.  There will be compensations of the body to maintain erect.  A lot of my clients with this posture tighten their shoulders or backs to find erectness.

Keeping muscles well toned and aerobic conditioning is important.  Keeping our joints moving in healthy ranges is just as important.  I am not talking about stretching (this can help at times).  When one single joint (i.e. A bone in the foot, a vertebra of the spine, the femur in the hip socket) is locked, it will affect the entire body.

Walk with your body slumped.
How does this affect your legs?
Can you walk fast?
How is your hip extension and back extension because of this posture?

We need to educate ourselves to bring back in our lives movements that invites proper sequencing of our joints.  If a client who loves golfs and does not rotate well in their spine and legs, the movement will go into their backs in a unhealthy fashion.

There are simple movements that we can do in our daily life that will enhance our well being.  It could take a few minutes during each day to keep the joints moving well.  The time allotted depends on your variations of movements within your day.  If you sit at a computer all day,  I would recommend at least 5 minutes of every hour sitting.

Somatic practices like Hanna Somatics, Bartenieff Fundamentals, BodyMind Centering, Franklin Method and Feldenkrais are great examples of possible classes to bring back healthy movement to the body.  Pilates Teachers here is a great workshop to explore how to improve wellness in a Pilates Mat.

Stay tune next time for sneaky exercies for the offices.

Disc Risk

With Lisa Love
Date:  Saturday, June 5, 2010
Time:  1-5:30   $150
Early Bird Discount $120 by 5/28

Developing Pilates programs for adults with back pain associated with ruptured, herniated, bulging and/or degenerative discs.

Pilates teachers are often engaged in preventing or improving chronic or intermittent back problems.  Some of the most commonly diagnosed causes of back pain relate to disc pathologies. To be effective and not put clients at risk, it is important for the programs we design to contain relevant, customized exercises with intentional, flexible goals.

This four hour workshop will focus on disc problems and basics of how they might affect the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine.  Attendees will review related trunk anatomy and spinal biomechanics. We will then actively apply this focus to specific Pilates repertory, determining whether an exercise is indicated or contraindicated.

Lisa Love, Ed.M., R.M.T., has an Advanced Master of Education in Motor Learning from the Department of Movement Sciences & Education, Teachers College, Columbia University with additional graduate studies in biomechanics and clinical kinesiology at NYU.  She has taught movement reeducation for over 20 years, and maintains a private practice in Pilates in NYC.  She has been researching and working with MS clients for 15 years.

Great article about Sciatic pain and Pilates in about.com

A former client was facing a 24-hour flight to  Australia  to get married only he was in so much back pain he could not stand, sit or lie down with any comfort. On the phone, I talked him through a movement sequence to target his specific problem. This took about 10 minutes. He made it to the plane and the church on time in no pain. The workshop, Sacroiliac Protocol, helps you understand this frequent low back complaint and solve it with the most useful approach I have ever used.  Dianne Woodruff

Dianne L. Woodruff, CMA, PhD, has been teaching for 35 years and has been in private practice for 20 working with people who have movement difficulties and unresolved myofascial pain. Her newest video, 3-D WORKOUT™, vol II, an integrated approach to fitness, was released in 2006. A Certified Movement Analyst with a doctorate in Somatic Education, she developed the anatomy curriculum for Stott Pilates in Toronto. She writes and lectures widely.www.body-in-motion.com.

Sacroiliac Treatment Protocol

With Dianne Woodruff
Date: Sunday 11 April 2010
Time: 9:30-12:30  $120

This workshop offers a step-by-step method of assessment and treatment for sacroiliac pain. It includes the anatomical framework and function, observation of whole-body and defined body parts in motion, various tests for sacroiliac dysfunction and methods for treating the problem. The workshop, aimed at “the dead seven inches” is an application of Bartenieff Fundamentals in a therapeutic framework. Open to personal trainers, pilates/yoga instructors and health practitioners.

Register before 4/4/10 and get a $20 discount on all workshops.

Cutting edge for Movement professionals Bridging the mind and body
through fitness.

BodyMind Faculty: Dr. Martha Eddy,
Doris Pasteleur Hall and Lesley Powell

Dr. Martha Eddy, alias Dr. Move says:

“As a BodyMind Fitness© specialist, you become an intelligent detective of bodily challenges. These skills help you and your clients to reach their highest potential. You are welcomed through the gates of wellness, and wellness coaching. Somatic education is a growing field of research and therapies regarding human awareness. Bodymind fitness Certification offers the next level of education for health and fitness professionals. It uses somatic movement education to expand your skills in the rich arena of neuro-muscular retraining and its relationship to human behavior”

Lesley Powell & Dr. Martha Eddy

Dr. Martha Eddy with Lesley Powell at Movements Afoot NYC have created BodyMind Fitness Certificate,  the next level in fitness training starting this spring 2010.  Be on the top of your game by bridging the body and mind through fitness.  Learn these cutting edge somatic techniques for the body and mind.

For more information

Early Bird Discount: Deadline 3/1 $1620 (total value $1800)

This pays for 4 weekends of BodyMind Fitness Workshops: Core, Lower Body, Upper Body and Integration.  Must call for this Deal: Full BodyMind Fitness Certification $1620
(212)904-1399 or email at movementsafoot@mac.com

Certification also requires 40 hours of group classes
and 4 privatesat an additional costs.

Learn to apply principles of BodyMind Fitness (c) to your fitness training; Pilates,yoga, dance, wellness, kickboxing, personal training, practice and coaching. Each workshop weekend costs $450.00

March 12 – 15 Core of Anatomy; Core
May 21 – 24 Understanding; Lower Body
July 31 – Aug 2 Revolution of Hand-scapula & Shoulders:Upper Body
October 1 – 4 Whole Integrated Body; Whole Body

Friday: 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Saturday & Sunday 9:00am – 4:00pm
Monday 9:30am – 3:00pm

49 W. 27th St. Mezzanine B, New York City 212-904-1399

New Upcoming Series

in March

Finding Fitness:
When you don’t feel well.

See New research
how Pilates improves older adults from falls.

Finding a movement/fitness practice is hard for all. It is especially more difficult for those suffering from an injury or neurological disease. Join us for an 8 week series of a Pilates workout using the equipment to take you to a fitness that make you feel better.

$360 for 8 week series Minimum of 3, Maximum of 5

Tuesdays 6-7 PM March 2 – April 27 No class 3/30
Wednesdays 10-11 AM March 3 – April 28 No class 4/1

*Days/times don’t work, please give us a call/email of day/time requested. We would love to setup other series with other interested clients.

Learn:

• Fundamentals for fitness
  (Be able to have a home program as well)
• Increases core strength, flexibility and body awareness.
• Develop better muscle tone
• Improve your posture
• Rehab chronic injuries
• Enhance your wellness

Included are handouts for home practice

Back care, MS, Arthritis, Fibromylia, Chronic fatigue,
Cancer survivors, Parkinson’s

Only two makeups are allowed. If makeups are taken as a group class/Pilates equipment class, no discounts will be made. All makeups must be reserved by office staff.

Other Workshops Beneficial to Wellness

Hanna Somatics

Franklin Method

Moving on Aerobics

Drawing by Lesley Powell

• How does your bad habits get in the way of your workout?
• Does tensing your shoulders or your back take away from working the correct muscles needed for the particular actions?

Making changes in your nervous system
can make a great difference in your practice.

Amy Matthews in her BodyMind Centering Yoga class at Movements Afoot led us through an awareness of how our nervous system affects our movement.  We started a simple roll down observing our nerves, trying to release them and roll down with less tension.  How many of us with tight backs try to push from our shoulders or neck when the back is stiff?  I obtained a new flexibility and felt so warmed up.

I have been taking this to my own practice and in my teaching.  As I become conscious of excess tension and release it such as shoulder tension in downward dog, the workload goes into my arms.  Last week in my own practice and then teaching an advanced reformer class, I only allowed myself to move with feeling the release of my bad habits.  Anytime I felt bad tension creep in, I would stop in the middle of the movement.  I use breath and/or visual cues to release the tension.

I was doing footwork on only 2 red springs with myself and my advanced students.  With the consciousness of staying released in unnecessary tension, it was amazing how 2 springs felt like 4.  By undoing poor patterns, the workload went all in my legs.

This advanced reformer class is for dancers.  It was remarkable how everyone’s posture changed.  Everyone was amazed how hard a workout this was even though spent a lot of time releasing of poor tension.

49 W. 27th St. Mezzanine B, New York City 212-904-1399

Our classes  combine:

• Pilates
• Bartenieff Fundamentals
• Franklin Method
• BodyMind techniques for better movement & relaxation
• Restorative yoga

Finding a movement/fitness practice is hard for all. It is especially more difficult for those suffering from an injury or neurological disease. Traditional exercise does not always address how to create a fitness practice when the body is not well. How the mind influences the body can determine better function for most.

Traditional exercise has an emphasis on the loading of muscles, repetitions and sweat. This is important in the end result of good healthy fitness. The process for finding fitness should be different when the body is not well.

A lot of classes and fitness are too fast and/or too much exertion for the person who does not feel well. Sometimes the body will go to the muscles that are already overworked when the load/exertion is too much. For instance, abdominal and bridging exercises are important in back care. Many complain of back pain in these kinds of exercises. What is happening here?

The brain is giving the wrong feedback to the body.

Instead of initiating the movement from the abdominals in the crunch,
the brain goes to the back muscles to start the work. How do you make change?

You retrain how the mind thinks about movement. This is a practice in itself. These techniques are used by athletes, dancers and gymnasts.

Essential tools are:

• Breath Imagery
• Better understanding of functional anatomy
• Cueing
• Mental rehearsals
• Relaxation techniques

We are going to look at how to train the abdominals and the legs using new tools. Breath is your road to deeper concentration, relaxation and core support. For further in depth practice see my podcast on breath. One can also used breath as imagery to assist in change. When you blow up a balloon, it swells up into a moldable shape. When you allow a balloon to let out the air out, the balloon releases back to its original shape.

• Focus your breath to an area of tightness in your body.
• Imagine the breath expanding that area like a balloon with the inhale.
• As that area expands, feel how the muscles lengthen, widen and release.
• On the exhale, imagine the muscles falling softer towards the ground.
• Breath can be a great tool when the body is fatigued or in pain.
• Let’s say you are in a class and you have reached a place of fatigued.

Instead of leaving class, go back as the class workout to the breath. Only join back into the class when you feel well.

ANATOMICAL IMAGERY

Understanding how the body works can really help one find new connections and a preventive measure from re-injury. We are going to look at the Bartenieff Fundamental, the thigh lift. This is a underlying concept how the thighbone moves in the hip socket. It is essential for a movements of the legs such as walking and level changes such as getting up from a chair.

When someone comes in with a back injury,
I look at how they do a thigh lift.

When the thighbone is not gliding well in the hip socket,
the pelvis will unleveled to lift the leg.
This repetitive motion can lead to more discomfort in the back, hips and legs.

Here(see above podcast) is the thighbone placed into the hip socket. Notice how it is a deep round socket for the head of the femur bone. When the leg is lifted, there is an opposition of movement of the two distal points of the femur bone; one where the knee is and the other, the femur head in the hip socket. In the thigh lift, the head of the femur will glide in the opposite direction of the knee. The higher the knee is lifted, the head of the femur will roll and glide lower in the socket towards the sitz bones.

Image the bone gliding down in the hip socket as you do the thigh lift.
Feel how the back lengthens with the bone gliding well in the hip socket.

When you understand how the body is designed, you will have better movement. As Eric Franklin says “Embodied anatomy improves function”. When the thigh lift is done correctly, the correct muscles will be invited to work. The Bartenieff Fundamental, the thigh lift is the underlying concept in all abdominal work and movements of the legs.
(See my podcast on Pilates Basics: Enhancing the core)

Mental Rehearsal

This is a technique used by musicians, dancers and athletes. You review the movement in your head like it is a film. You image the movement with complete success, expression and enjoyment. We are going to look at the Bartenieff Fundamental, the pelvic shift forward. This can be a great exercise to get the legs stronger and stabilized the spine. Sometimes when the legs are weak, the back wants to overcompensate. This can be painful for many.

• Visualize yourself doing a pelvic shift forward.
• Press down on your feet feeling equal pressure on the inside and outside lane of the feet.
• Feel the hamstrings engaged against your thighbone
• Using your leg muscles rise the pelvis forward towards your feet.
• Your relaxed spine rises up in one piece.
• Your back is relaxed and the legs are doing the work
• Imagine your legs are like an elevator that carries the load of the spine up and down.
• Slowly descend your spine down with your spine in neutral. Your spine should come down in one piece.
• Practice this a few times and then try to do a real Pelvic technique.

Mental rehearsal is great to use when you are fatigued or in pain. Research has shown through biofeedback that muscles are charged even with mental rehearsal.

Relaxation techniques

Sometimes to get to the correct muscles usage, one needs to release the overcompensating muscles. Stretching can be positive for some; for others over-stretching can put a muscle in spasm. Constructive rest position is a practice of lying on your back to release unnecessary tension in your body.

• Lie on your back
• Have your legs bent with your feet on the floor or on a stool/chair. A belt can help keep the legs together. This can help diminish tension.
• Observe how your spine feels on the floor.
• What areas of the spine lay well on the floor?
• How is tension in your body affects how you lie on the floor?
• Use breath and image of the balloon to create new releases in your spine.

For further information about constructive rest:

• Andre Bernard
• Eric Franklin
• Restorative yoga
• Another great book about release techniques Paul Escosque Pain-Free

We would love to bring pilates movement to people who would love a Pilates class designed at the pace and needs of their present health. We will be setting up a new series this spring.  Please give us a call if you and others would like to set specific days/times.

Special Pilates classes:

• Back care
• MS
• Arthritis
• Fibromylia
• Chronic fatigue
• Cancer survivors
• Parkinson’s

New Balanced Body Mat  & Toys
and PMA Approved Workshops

are happening this year.  Inspire your Pilates practice with new ideas and connections.

BBU PILATES ARC ON THE ROAD – April 23, 2010 2-8 PM

$299 (education and equipment purchase) Workshop includes 6 hour workshop, DVD workout, instructor manual and a Pilates Arc.
To register: 877-PILATES (745-2837).

Create exciting new Pilates workouts with the Pilates Arc. It’s a lightweight Pilates Step Barrel and a whole lot more!

Balanced Body’s Mat & Toys in May

Dates: Sun   5/2/2010
Time:  9:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Balanced Body’s Pilates Mat & Toys with Lesley Powell $249 per day (6 hours of training).
Workshops include props and manuals.
Please join us for our third ‘On the Road’ program

To register: 877-PILATES (745-2837).
Learn how to use a variety of small props in your Pilates Mat classes with this two part workshop including the resistance bands, and small balls. New moves, new choreography and a lot of fun will be had as you learn how to play with your new toys! Choreography, prop safety and creativity will be covered.

BBU – Resist and Reform with Elastic Bands This workshop includes a heavy and extra heavy Thera-bands and a set of Thera-Band Exercise handles ($22 value) and a BBU Mat & Tubes Manual ($25 value) mat

BBU – Small Ball Magic
Make boredom disappear and health and vitality return using 2″, 5″ and 13″ balls for classes that stimulate, educate, strengthen and release. Whether you want to loosen a tight spot, strengthen a weak one or add energy to the whole body, small balls can speed you on your way.  This workshop includes a Togu ball, “Pinky” ball and a Red Playground ball, 5″ ($35 value) and a BBU Mat & Small Balls Manual ($25 value)

PMA Accredited Workshops

PILATES UPRIGHT

with Lesley Powell
Dates: Sun   5/23/2010 Time:  9:00 AM – 4:00 PM $200
PMA Accredited

Pilates Upright is a dynamic workout that incorporates the training of Pilates mat with weight bearing exercises in standing. Pilates Upright gives you a new underSTANDing of the coordination of your muscles & bones in standing, which is very different from exercising on the floor

Functional fitness

• Organization/coordination of bones and muscles different in weight bearing. This is closed chain.
• Challenging balance
• Challenging Pilates concepts to Standing
• Dynamic stabilization changing levels, i.e. Supine to sidelying
• New stabilization principles
• “Embodied anatomy improves function” Eric Franklin

For more indepth study see our BodyMind Fitness Schedule.  Experience all the lower connections to enhance your teaching.

SHOULDER WORKSHOP: 
Scapular Revolution with Lesley Powell

Time:  9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Sunday August 1 9:00 AM- 4 PM $200

The arms connect to the torso through the shoulder girdle, shoulder blades, clavicles and humerus bones. Each bone moves in different degrees of rotation and timing. The timing and the control of these motions are essential to a healthy shoulder. This “scapular-humeral rhythm” is like a symphony—each bone is an instrument playing a different variation of a melody.

When the shoulder girdle moves correctly, great function is invited.  Each bone of the shoulder girdle; the clavicles, the scapulae and the humerus bone, have a unique rhythm of movement to facilitate the arm moving in space.

A great scapular-humeral rhythm will invite the correct phrasing of the arm and core muscles. When you get a client to better use her shoulder girdle, her arm strength, posture and connection to the core will improve. Learn how this rhythm works and how to help your clients improve theirs.

For more indepth study see our BodyMind Fitness Schedule.  Experience all the upper connections to enhance your teaching.

To Register

Meet NYC’s finest BodyMind Fitness leaders

September 25 10-5 PM
Sign up online with Movements Afoot and it is free all day!
If you sign-up at the door by 9:30 am its $25.
If they come later to sign-up at the door they need to pay $10 per workshop.

Join us for a free event, FITNESS Forward: New BodyMind Trends with internationally acclaimed teachers, Friday, September 25, 2009 10-5:15 PMat 320 Studios, 320West 37th St, 14th Floor. To register online at Movementsafoot.com

Registration: 9:30, Workshops: 10-5pm

Fitness Forward: New BodyMind Trends brings together international leaders of the bodymind and fitness field.

Fitness Forward, featuring four pioneers in BodyMind Fitness, will introduce integrated yet unique approaches to this increasingly popular and exciting field.  Each of our dynamic presentations is designed to inspire participants towards a new vision for health and fitness.

Join for free classes to get a taste of the unique trends upcoming about the body and its function. Internationally acclaimed leaders of fitness and bodymind therapies will be Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains, Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, exercise physiologist and director of The Center for Kinesthetic Education, Lesley Powell, CMA Directors of BodyMind Fitness Certification and Movements Afoot, Doris Pasteleur Hall- renowned Pilates teacher and BMF faculty and Colleen Wahl, CLMA and director of Move into Greatness.

Entire free day of classes.*

• 10-11:30am Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridian System with Tom Myers
• 11:45-1:00pm Dynamic Gait Analysis: A 3-D approach to walking with Dr. Martha Eddy, Lesley Powell, Doris Pasteleur  Hall
• 2-3:15pm  Inspiring Fitness: Learning techniques to enhance your physical progress with BMF faculty and Colleen Wahl, CLMA and director of Move into Greatness.

• 3:30-4:30pm Moving On Aerobics: Unique Aerobics class that not only changes your heart rate but improves your lymph health, flexiblity and feels absolutely great on your body; heart & soul.
• 4:30-5 BodyMind Fitness Q and A

To register, visit MovementsAfoot sign up through their website.

Teacher Biographies:

Tom Myers
Thomas Myers trained directly with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller and has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years.  Tom directs Kinesis, Inc., which offers professional seminars worldwide. Tom is the author of Anatomy Trains (Elsevier 2001) and numerous articles for trade magazines and journals.

Dr Martha Eddy
Martha, an internationally reknowned educator is co-director of BodyMind Fitness, within her Dynamic Embodiment Therapist Training Certification.  As founder of Center for Kinesthetic Education she brings somatic principles to an array of disciplines.  She received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University in movement science and education in 1998, and has a Masters of Arts in Applied Physiology.

Lesley Powell
Lesley has been a leader in movement education for over 20 years.  She is the founder and director of Movements Afoot, a Pilates Wellness Studio and co-directs BodyMind Fitness.  Other teaching credits include faculty at Drew University, international lecturer and Faculty of  BalancedBody University. As a regular contributor her words have been featured in numerous magazines including Oprah, Shape and Elle.

Doris Pasteleur Hall
Doris has been in the Pilates world since 1970.  This internationally known as a Pilates’ teacher has studied with pioneers in both fitness and somatics and rigorouslycombines the two practices. Her teaching experience includes the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey dance companies.  She is about to become a CMA.

Colleen Wahl
Colleen is fitness’s rising star. This powerhouse is owner and founder of Move Into Greatness where she combines fitness and somatics to empower self-awareness and personal transformation through mindful exercise.  Her ideas have been featured in publications including Fitness magazine. As a PhD candidate in Somatic Psychology she is developing her model for body-based creativity.

See the body and fitness in a whole way!

To Register

Meet NYC’s finest BodyMind Fitness leaders

September 25 10-5 PM
Sign up online with Movements Afoot and it is free all day!
If you sign-up at the door by 9:30 am its $25.
If they come later to sign-up at the door they need to pay $10 per workshop.

Join us for a free event, FITNESS Forward: New BodyMind Trends with internationally acclaimed teachers, Friday, September 25, 2009 10-5:15 PMat 320 Studios, 320West 37th St, 14th Floor. To register online at Movementsafoot.com

Registration: 9:30, Workshops: 10-5pm

Fitness Forward: New BodyMind Trends brings together international leaders of the bodymind and fitness field.

Fitness Forward, featuring four pioneers in BodyMind Fitness, will introduce integrated yet unique approaches to this increasingly popular and exciting field.  Each of our dynamic presentations is designed to inspire participants towards a new vision for health and fitness.

Join for free classes to get a taste of the unique trends upcoming about the body and its function. Internationally acclaimed leaders of fitness and bodymind therapies will be Tom Myers, author of Anatomy Trains, Dr. Martha Eddy, CMA, exercise physiologist and director of The Center for Kinesthetic Education, Lesley Powell, CMA Directors of BodyMind Fitness Certification and Movements Afoot, Doris Pasteleur Hall- renowned Pilates teacher and BMF faculty and Colleen Wahl, CLMA and director of Move into Greatness.

Entire free day of classes.*

• 10-11:30am Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridian System with Tom Myers
• 11:45-1:00pm Dynamic Gait Analysis: A 3-D approach to walking with Dr. Martha Eddy, Lesley Powell, Doris Pasteleur  Hall
• 2-3:15pm  Inspiring Fitness: Learning techniques to enhance your physical progress with BMF faculty and Colleen Wahl, CLMA and director of Move into Greatness.

• 3:30-4:30pm Moving On Aerobics: Unique Aerobics class that not only changes your heart rate but improves your lymph health, flexiblity and feels absolutely great on your body; heart & soul.
• 4:30-5 BodyMind Fitness Q and A

To register, visit MovementsAfoot sign up through their website.

Teacher Biographies:

Tom Myers
Thomas Myers trained directly with Drs. Ida Rolf, Moshe Feldenkrais, and Buckminster Fuller and has practiced integrative bodywork for over 30 years.  Tom directs Kinesis, Inc., which offers professional seminars worldwide. Tom is the author of Anatomy Trains (Elsevier 2001) and numerous articles for trade magazines and journals.

Dr Martha Eddy
Martha, an internationally reknowned educator is co-director of BodyMind Fitness, within her Dynamic Embodiment Therapist Training Certification.  As founder of Center for Kinesthetic Education she brings somatic principles to an array of disciplines.  She received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University in movement science and education in 1998, and has a Masters of Arts in Applied Physiology.

Lesley Powell
Lesley has been a leader in movement education for over 20 years.  She is the founder and director of Movements Afoot, a Pilates Wellness Studio and co-directs BodyMind Fitness.  Other teaching credits include faculty at Drew University, international lecturer and Faculty of  BalancedBody University. As a regular contributor her words have been featured in numerous magazines including Oprah, Shape and Elle.

Doris Pasteleur Hall
Doris has been in the Pilates world since 1970.  This internationally known as a Pilates’ teacher has studied with pioneers in both fitness and somatics and rigorouslycombines the two practices. Her teaching experience includes the Joffrey Ballet and Alvin Ailey dance companies.  She is about to become a CMA.

Colleen Wahl
Colleen is fitness’s rising star. This powerhouse is owner and founder of Move Into Greatness where she combines fitness and somatics to empower self-awareness and personal transformation through mindful exercise.  Her ideas have been featured in publications including Fitness magazine. As a PhD candidate in Somatic Psychology she is developing her model for body-based creativity.

See the body and fitness in a whole way!
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