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The Pelvis
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Ever wonder what your pelvis looks like?
During pilates, it helps to know what your pelvis actually looks like when you’re trying to find that neutral pelvis position that is so important during pilates exercises.
Notice that the pelvis is not a solid block of bone, there are spaces and joints. Looking straight on at the pelvis […]
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Externally Rotating Your Legs
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During many exercises in pilates, you are asked to externally rotate your legs. It can be said in any of the following ways: “turn out”, “wrap the backs of the inner thighs together”, “heels together, toes apart”, “frog position”, “Pilates V”, etc. For most of us, this movement seems so simple but the truth is, […]
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A Way to Release Neck Tension
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My Alexander Technique teacher, Joan Arnold, pointed out something to me during one of our sessions. That day, I was complaining about upper back and neck tension that was giving me terrible Tension Headaches. She saw that I was holding a lot of tension in my jaw, as though I was subconscious clenching my teeth […]
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Balance
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Is balance the meaning of life? I’ve always thought so…
I’m reading a book called, “Balance- In Search of the Lost Sense”, by Scott McCredie. His theory is the balance is the sixth sense, just as legit as sight and smell. As a pilates instructor, of course I agree! The book contains an interesting history […]
