Pilates + Life + Health
Unlock the Benefits of the Pilates Matwork
Despite its seemingly simple setup—just a mat and your body—Pilates Mat exercises pack a...
MARCH MATNESS
It’s a month long Celebration!
Let me repeat myself…
MARCH MATNESS is a Celebration!
It's a month-long, awareness...
Scissors & Bicycle
Let me PEDAL through all the Benefits of these two Pilates Mat Exercises
Wait!
I’ve gotta admit that I’m...
BOOMERANG the Pilates Mat Exercise you should return to Again and Again
I’m going to totally date myself here - whenever I hear the...
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...
Transitions
The WHAT, 3 reasons WHY, & a little bit of HOW
According to The Cambridge Dictionary:
Transition as a NOUN: a...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Ab Series:
Double Leg Lower Lift & Criss Cross (aka Twist)
G'day, my fabulous friends & wow, some new formatting up there with the...
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...
CONTROL
Control is considered one of the six Pilates Principles
The others are:
- Breath
- Concentration
- Centring
- Flow
- Precision
I’ve written...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MOTIVATION
- Do you have it?
- Can you find it?
The answer to question number one is, ‘maybe?’ but the answer to question number two is,...
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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