Boomerang: the Pilates Mat Exercise you should return to Again and Again I’m going to totally date myself here -  whenever I hear the word boomerang my brain automatically starts playing the Boomerang song from the soundtrack of the 1986 movie, Children of a Lesser God. Until today I didn’t even...

Exercise Deep Dive: Leg Pull Front Are you familiar with the Pilates Mat exercise Leg Pull Front? It’s a slip of a thing. Basically it’s a plank variation. Are you wondering why this seemingly light weight exercise deserves its own blog post? Me too, I thought exactly the same thing but as ...

Pilates Patterns: Circles & Layers Aka another way to wrap your head around the Pilates Method A lot of times when I teach I excitedly blurt things out and yesterday during an online class what came out of my mouth is that we should look at the Mat repertoire as layers and circles.  Does anybo...

Ab Series: Double Leg Lower Lift & Criss Cross (aka Twist) G'day, my fabulous friends & wow, some new formatting up there with the Heading! Today, we've got another deep dive into the wonderful world of Pilates with a focus on the Abdominal Series from the Matwork. Specifically, we'll be bre...

Ab Series: Single Leg Stretch / Double Leg Stretch / Scissors You know what I love? I love it when my abs get a little bit sore. Not the so-sore-I-can’t-breathe-and-OMG-please-don’t-make-me-laugh sore, but just that hint of oh-yeah-I-worked-those-babies-yesterday sore. I’m definitely not ...

CONTROL Control is considered one of the six Pilates Principles The others are: Breath Concentration Centring Flow Precision I’ve written blog posts on all of them; here are the links if you’re curious: Breath  Concentration  Centring  Flow  Precision   Maybe you’ve read that ther...

OPEN LEG ROCKER I mistakenly typed Open Leg Rocket 🚀 when I began writing this post which now that I think about it could be a perfect name for this exercise. Huh? Let me explain Open Leg Rocker is one of the Pilates exercises where the power of the exhale really, really, really helps. If you...

Breath Out of the six generally agreed upon Pilates Principles, I would say that Breath is the potentially the most important (the others are: Flow, Concentration, Precision, Centring, & Control). Maybe Joseph Pilates would agree? One of his more well known quotes taken from his 1945 book, Ret...

The Teaser Let me try to explain why this is one of my verrrrry favourite Pilates exercises.   But first, WHAT is Teaser or alternately the Teaser and HOW is it done? Here it is as defined by Joseph Pilates, it's number 22 out of 34 in his Mat sequence and is the first version I show in the v...

To Prop or not to Prop that is the question Prop(s)… so many meanings! As a noun: A propeller. Any of the articles other than costumes and scenery used by an actor or performer during a performance on stage or in a film. Someone or something displayed to impress others or provide a false ...