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How Pilates and Aerials Keep Your Psoas Healthy
How Pilates and aerials keep your psoas healthy. Like most areas of the body, practicing Pilates and aerials with precision has the ability to bring optimal health to the psoas- the muscle that connects your upper body to your lower body. Thoracic segment T12 and lumbar segments L1-L5 all the way down the leg towards…
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Why Your Pilates Routine Matters Even More During the Holidays: How to Stay Consistent, and a 15 Minute Pilates Mat Flow
Pilates During the Holidays: Between travel, family gatherings, shifting schedules, and the emotional marathon of the holiday season, it’s easy for your Pilates routine to slide to the bottom of your list. But this is exactly when your practice becomes even more important. Research consistently shows that Pilates supports mental health, reduces physical tension, and…
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Pilates for Aerialists: My Research from London
2024 was an exciting and challenging year for so many reasons! One of these reasons points to the original EMG (electromyography) research I conducted on the effect of Pilates on deep abdominal recruitment in circus artists. After spending months recruiting aerialists from different corners of the UK, 8 professional and recreational aerialists and acrobats joined…
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Pilates for Pelvic Floor Health
It is to my delight that talking about your pelvic floor health is becoming more popular in really any setting. Even though we can’t physically see our pelvic floors, it holds so much importance from functional strength, to urinary and fecal health, sexual health and more! Having a deeper and more connected understanding on the…
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Pilates for Hypermobility
Hypermobility is a condition of the joints that affects more people than the majority of the population realizes. Several of my Pilates clients have been somewhat unaware of their hypermobility until I drew attention to it within our sessions and explained the range of motion that each joint is ideally designed to move through. If…
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Pilates for Happy Hips
One of the first things I notice as a Pilates instructor when one of my clients lays down on the reformer for their first exercise is the natural balance of their hips in relation to their legs, low back and deep core. Tight hip flexors, weak glutes, rotated and uneven hip crests, and a tendency…
