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Optic Neuritis and Exercise Guidelines
Optic Neuritis and Exercise. Sometimes it's difficult to even think about working out when you're going blind! Since I’ve been dealing with a chronic case of optic neuritis for almost eight months…my exercise habits have been quite compromised. It has been...
I Want to Be a Pilates Teacher!
Is this something that you've said or thought lately? "I Love Pilates, and want to become a Pilates Teacher!" Teaching Pilates is a great career choice. I have had more fun in the past 16 years teaching Pilates than at any other job I've ever had. In fact, it's hard...
Optic Neuritis: Western Medicine – Helpful or Harmful?
OK – Here’s part 2 in my Optic Neuritis story. This is how my health care providers have been “providing care.” Am I a happy, well-taken-care-of patient. Unfortunately, NO. I’ve never been so frustrated with physicians and the medical system in my life! I really...
Pilates & Health Improvement:
Remember Your Journey, Document Your Progress I had a discussion at the end of a session with a very loyal and long-standing Pilates client this week. After the many, many years of consistent Pilates this person was feeling frustrated that they weren’t super flexible...
Living with Optic Neuritis
My Story: Dealing with Doctors, Optic Neuritis, and the Effects of High Dose Steroids It was March 8, 2010 when I knew there was a problem… I was starting to lose the peripheral vision in my right eye. Crap… So NOT what I wanted to be dealing with again. I knew...
Pilates Exercises for Twisting and Improving Rotation of the Spine
In a workshop a few years ago with my Pilates mentor, Dianne Miller, she made a comment that has really stuck in my brain. “Twisting exercises facilitate improved flexion and extension of the spine.” Don’t know why I never realized that little gem on my own, but how...
The Pilates Mind-Body Connection – Unconscious vs. Conscious Awareness for Pilates Training & Life!
How much time throughout the day do you spend consciously aware of what you’re doing? Is it a couple of minutes, an hour, or most of your day? Or is it hardly ever? A few years ago, I was working with one of my Pilates students, who had been training with me for...
The Benefits of Using Mirrors for Pilates Workouts – Are You Looking In or Looking Out?
I was working with a client this week, and we got off on a discussion about the use of mirrors for Pilates exercise programs. In the 3 different Pilates studio locations I’ve owned – I had mirrors everywhere! However, right now, I’m teaching in a space with no...
The Future of Pilates
Just got my copy of IDEA Fit Tips, and what a nice article by Mary Monroe about Pilates! CNBC reports that Pilates is the nation’s fastest-growing fitness activity. An amazing 8.6 million participants! A 450% increase since 2000. WOW! Even though the economy has...
Can I Do Pilates While I'm In PT?
I found this great question in my inbox today, and thought that I'd share my reply here on my Pilates blog. "I have sustained a recent back injury, I am still going through physical therapy. I am wondering when can a person safely sign up for some pilates...