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It’s great to be alive

I’ve got a good friend who has lived through all the challenges one person doesn’t deserve to face in one lifetime – one very tragic accident that affected her whole family, and then – just when things were sort of on an even keel – a life-threatening illness for my friend (from which she has […]

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Put good things in your body!

Doing pilates regularly can certainly help with toning muscle and improving posture (so you feel and look better), but it is only part of the picture. Try including this life-changing bread as well! One of the often-quoted sayings of Joseph Pilates is that “in 10 sessions you will feel the difference, in 20 you will

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Psoas is at your core

As you probably know, building core strength is one of the key benefits of pilates. But what you may not know is that there is a lot more to the core muscles than the abdominal or tummy muscles. The Psoas muscle (pronounced ‘so-as’) is the epitome of the core. The spine and the muscles closest

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Pilates, yoga, Feldenkrais or whatever – the name doesn’t really matter

“The body doesn’t care whether we call it Pilates, yoga, Alexander, Feldenkrais, Nia, Continuum—or, for that matter, washing the dishes. What it does care about is if we’re moving with awareness.” So says Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle, in the current issue of Pilates Style magazine. I completely agree with her. I started out doing yoga in my

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