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Pilates For Bone Health? A Smart Strategy!

web-pilates May 22, 2025 No Comments

When it comes to recommendations on how to maintain bone health, many people think of calcium supplements, weight training, or walking with pilates often flying under the radar. Whether you’re…

Pilates Basics: Hamstrings

web-pilates March 6, 2025 No Comments

When most people think about pilates and posture, the spine and “core” immediately come to mind. But there’s one muscle group that plays a critical yet often overlooked role…

Can’t Do Long Sit? This Is Why!

web-pilates February 13, 2025 No Comments

If you’ve ever participated in a pilates mat class, you may have come across the long sit position. It sounds simple enough — sitting tall with your legs extended in…

Pilates Basics: Sit Bones

web-pilates January 31, 2025 No Comments

When we think about posture, the focus is often on the back, shoulders, or neck, but there’s a critical part of the body that plays a huge role in how…

How To Practice Pilates At Home

web-pilates November 14, 2024 No Comments

It’s one of the most common questions you get asked as a pilates teacher. What pilates exercises can I do at home? It’s great to be so motivated that you…

Pilates Basics: Neutral Spine

web-pilates November 9, 2024 No Comments

Neutral spine refers to the curves in the spine that are natural and enable humans to stand upright without any unnecessary stress or tension, with even distribution of weight. The…

Why You Need To Stretch Every Day

web-pilates October 24, 2024 No Comments

Do you stretch every day? If you do, then a big “high five”! You’re in the minority. Stretching usually doesn’t rate highly on the priority list of daily activities for…

Tight Hamstrings? Stretching Might Not Be The Solution!

web-pilates September 5, 2024 No Comments

We’re all born with very individual degrees of flexibility. There are many factors that contribute to flexibility…genetics, posture, daily activity(or lack of) and your own, unique physiology. The “hamstrings” are…

3 Reasons People Get Foot Pain & How To Avoid Them

web-pilates August 23, 2024 No Comments

How much attention do you give your feet? Walking is one of the most necessary and fundamental movements we do as humans. Yet very few people give their feet the…

How Do You Measure Age?

web-pilates July 20, 2024 No Comments

What is age? How do you measure age? Traditionally, age is measured by the number of years, or decades that have ticked by on the calendar. And along with those…

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