Pilates + Life + Health

March Matness exercises healthy living history matwork pilates Mar 06, 2024

MARCH MATNESS

It’s a month long Celebration!

Let me repeat myself…

MARCH MATNESS is a Celebration!

It's a month-long, awareness...

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The Surprising Health Benefits of Seeing Live Art healthy living life Jan 24, 2024

3 Reasons Why Being in The Audience is Good for Your Health

 

Introduction

I just returned from a week long trip to Sydney and I got...

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The Power of Everyday Movement: A Path to Better Health healthy living life philosophy Dec 20, 2023

Embracing Incidental Movement 

I’ve written about incidental movement before but thought that since it’s nudging up to...

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Slapping & Tapping: The Fun & Funky Way to Warm Up exercises healthy living Aug 16, 2023

Slapping and Tapping:

Surprisingly Fun (according to me) and Effective

Let’s get Slaphappy!

Am I the only one that gets into the...

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Peel Back for Growth & Squeeze the Most out of Life! exercises healthy living life matwork philosophy pilates May 24, 2023

Juice Your Life!

Do you ever feel raw and exposed and scared of change even though you know it’s for the best?

This thought came to me last...

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Have some Fun! healthy living life philosophy pilates May 10, 2023

It’s that time of year again - A Eurovision inspired blog post!

 

You might not know that I’m a Eurovision fan.

I get up...

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Motivation: Intrinsic & Extrinsic exercises healthy living mat matwork philosophy pilates Apr 26, 2023

MOTIVATION

  1. Do you have it?
  2. Can you find it?

The answer to question number one is, ‘maybe?’ but the answer to question number two is,...

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Non Dominance for better Uniform Development exercises healthy living life philosophy pilates principle Apr 19, 2023

One of Joseph Pilates’ concepts is Uniform Development which I’ve written about before.

In his 1945 book, Return to Life, he...

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Support Crew healthy living life philosophy pillar of health Apr 12, 2023

Over the Easter long weekend my hubby asked me if I’d be interested in watching Formula 1: Drive To Survive on Netflix. Having no interest...

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Balance (In All Things) healthy living life philosophy Mar 08, 2023

Over a month ago I biffed my toe - Bad!

(or badly as my parents would prefer I say)

It was my big toe and I landed right on top of it...

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Pelvic Floor & Pfilates exercises healthy living life pilates Feb 22, 2023

 Pelvic Floor Dysfunction

This little piggy went wee, wee, wee all the way home.

Actually this little piggy had a little wee when they...

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5 Ways To Negotiate Grief healthy living life philosophy Feb 08, 2023

*content warning* this post talks about death, if this topic is sensitive for you maybe skip reading it.

 

In this blog I mostly talk...

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Get A Grip! Is Pilates enough? exercises healthy living life mat pilates teaching Jan 18, 2023

Seriously, get a Grip would you?

No, I mean literally - get a grip!

Let me explain why it sounds like I'm berating you…

 

You know I...

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My Morning Routine healthy living life philosophy Dec 14, 2022

Is this you??

“Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup
And looking up, I noticed I was...

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Leap Before You Look healthy living life philosophy Nov 23, 2022

Ready for a Change?

I love listening to podcasts and they certainly make cleaning the house or mowing the lawn a lot more pleasant. One of my faves...

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Feedback & Negativity Bias healthy living life philosophy pilates teaching Sep 21, 2022

Feedback and Criticism & Negativity Bias

When I was a professional dancer I worked for a very demanding woman.

First, let me just tell you...

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Relationships: Student > Teacher > Guru? healthy living life philosophy pilates teaching Aug 24, 2022

Teacher or Guru?

Pre-blog I wrote long form newsletters to my email subscribers. This was one of my most popular from last year so I'm sharing the...

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Long Term Relationships & Change healthy living life philosophy pilates teaching Aug 17, 2022

Relationships over time

How long have you been working with your current teacher? (or if you're a Pilates instructor, your current clients?)

...

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Don't be an Ostrich healthy living life philosophy pilates teaching Jul 27, 2022

Well, well well,

The Schtudio* is almost done! (do I say that every couple of weeks?)

*shed + studio = schtudio 

This week the concrete...

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