Pilates + Life + Health

Pilates Method: 3 Ways the Mat trumps the Equipment exercises mat matwork pilates Mar 27, 2024

Unlock the Benefits of the Pilates Matwork

Despite its seemingly simple setup—just a mat and your body—Pilates Mat exercises pack a...

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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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Pilates Exercise Dive: Scissors & Bicycle exercises mat matwork pilates Feb 07, 2024

Scissors & Bicycle

Let me PEDAL through all the Benefits of these two Pilates Mat Exercises

Wait!

I’ve gotta admit that I’m...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Boomerang exercises mat matwork pilates Jan 10, 2024

BOOMERANG the Pilates Mat Exercise you should return to Again and Again

I’m going to totally date myself here -  whenever I hear the...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Double Leg Kick exercises mat matwork pilates Dec 06, 2023

The Deep Dive on Double Leg Kick

Who doesn't love a little bit of alliteration?  

Are you ready to look at another of Joseph Pilates' original...

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Transitions Between Exercises (mostly On the Mat) exercises mat matwork philosophy pilates Nov 29, 2023

Transitions

The WHAT, 3 reasons WHY, & a little bit of HOW

 

According to The Cambridge Dictionary: 

Transition as a NOUN: a...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Leg Pull Front exercises mat matwork pilates Nov 08, 2023

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...

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The Power of Pilates: Exploring the Method through Circles and Layers exercises matwork philosophy pilates teaching Oct 25, 2023

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...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Kneeling Side Leg Kicks exercises mat matwork philosophy pilates Oct 04, 2023

Side Kick Kneeling

JP’s OG #27

The Side Kick Kneeling or as I learned it, The Kneeling Side Kick is one of Joseph Pilates’ original 34...

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Rhythm, Pilates, & Breath exercises philosophy pilates teaching Sep 27, 2023

Pilates Rhythm

“I’ve got rhythm, I’ve got music, I’ve got my gal (or my guy or my non binary person) who could ask for...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Single Leg Kick exercises mat matwork pilates Sep 07, 2023

Single Leg Kick!

Time for a Pilates exercise dive - come on in, the water’s fine :)

Single Leg Kick is #13 on the list of Joseph...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Abdominal Series: Exercises 4 & 5 exercises mat matwork pilates Jul 19, 2023

Ab Series:

Double Leg Lower Lift & Criss Cross (aka Twist)

G'day, my fabulous friends & wow, some new formatting up there with the...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Abdominal Series, 1-3 exercises mat matwork pilates Jul 05, 2023

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...

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Pilates Principle: Control life philosophy pilates principle Jun 21, 2023

CONTROL

Control is considered one of the six Pilates Principles

The others are:

  • Breath
  • Concentration
  • Centring
  • Flow
  • Precision

I’ve written...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Open Leg Rocker exercises life mat matwork pilates principle teaching Jun 07, 2023

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...

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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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Pilates Exercise Dive: Side Bend (with a Side Plank appetiser) exercises mat matwork pilates teaching May 03, 2023

SIDE BEND is one of Joseph Pilates’ original 34 Matwork exercises and it comes towards the end at #28.

Not all exercises at the end of the...

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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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