Are your current breathing habits helping you stay healthy, or potentially causing back pain, shoulder pain or neck pain? Is your current breath pattern helping improve your posture with every breath you take? Breathing is something we take for granted. It happens...
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Six Easy Ways to Reduce Neck Tension during Pilates Exercise with Better Breathing Habits
I’ve seemed to have a flurry of issues with Pilates clients lately who are dealing with neck pain. And with the Optic Neuritis that I’ve been dealing with for the past 6 months, the tension in my neck has been an issue too! Whether we end up with increased neck pain...
Practice Better Breathing Habits to Help Develop Improved Core Strength with Length (and Other Great Health Benefits)
Breathing well is the first step in developing strength with length. If you have a hard time maintaining the length of your spine when you’re standing still, how the heck are you going to make it happen when you’re bending forwards, backwards, sideways, and twisting?...
Soham Mantra for Meditation
I recently started taking a Yoga meditation class to deepen my connection to center! While Pilates exercises are excellent as a form of moving meditation to focus on feeling and activating the energy flow throughout the body, it’s also important to find that still,...
Reduce Back Pain: The Benefits of Breathing as Taught in Pilates
Back Pain is something that affects way too many people these days! According to the American Chiropractic Association, back pain is the fifth most common reason for all physician visits in the US, and the most frequent cause of activity limitation in people younger...
Pilates Breathing & Butterfly Wings
I'm always looking for good new visual imagery to use with my clients that will help them better relate to their body, movement, AND better understand how to improve their technique.(I can't take credit for this one, came from one of my teachers newer clients this...
Breathing Basics to Improve Health, Fitness, and Your Pilates Workouts
Breathing is a very important part of being alive! How we breathe can make a difference in our good or poor posture, how much oxygen we get to our brain to think clearly, and better breathing habits can make a significant difference in how well we move to reduce the...