Pilates Tips from the Pros

  • The Pilates Show! – Your Inner Ninja and Wall Bouncing

    In this episode, Jen is going to get all Ninja on your ass – and will answer a question about pre-tensioning of the fascia! SHOW NOTES: Find other posts about Fascial Fitness HERE. See the Preparatory Counter Movement and Elastic Recoil Post HERE. Check out these online workshops on Fascia HERE. Add your thoughts about […]…

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  • The Pilates Show Mondays! – Morning Upgrade

    In this episode, Casey shares her morning Joe ritual!…

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  • The Pilates Dork! “Intake”

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  • The Pilates Show! – Hanging Out with the Shoulder Girdle

    In this episode, Casey is going to deal with Shoulder Girdle and will answer a question about men and the pelvic floor. SHOW NOTES: Find other posts about Anatomy HERE. Check out Lesley Powell’s Scapula Revolution workshop HERE. Add your thoughts about Margherita’s question at the FORUM! You can find some of the props used […]…

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  • The Pilates Show Mondays! – Get On the Floor

    Welcome to The Pilates Show! The Pilates Show Mondays are short episodes where we get the heck out of the studio and explore our Pilates Lifestyle. The main show is on Wednesdays where we’ll cover Pilates Tips and Techniques and answer viewer questions. On Fridays, enjoy our comic strip, “The Pilates Dork”.  Join us every […]…

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  • Fascial Anatomy

    Ok, get ready. There is some mind numbing anatomy later in this post. But I want to tell you that it is all going to end up at a place where we can make sense of it. Of course for that to happen you might have to pull out 2 or 3 anatomy books.  But […]…

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  • Using Pilates to Prevent and Heal Lower Back Pain: Stretches

    Millions of us live with moderate to severe back pain on a daily basis. Our hectic lives of spending long hours at a desk, in front of a computer, or behind the wheel of a car makes it difficult to maintain good back health. Many of us are learning what professional athletes have known for […]…

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  • Kathy Grant: A Teacher’s Teacher

    I never had the privilege of meeting or working with Kathy Grant, but have many friends and colleagues who did work with her extensively. My mentor, Marie-José Blom from Long Beach Dance Conditioning, was quite close to her and speaks of her often. In fact, on the day of Kathy Grant’s death I was with […]…

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  • Mary Bond Interview

    We were so happy to have Mary Bond join us in Asheville for an amazing live workshop and to shoot a couple of great online workshops. If you’re not familiar with her work, you should be! Enjoy this interview – and see below for some more info on Mary. Hope you enjoyed the interview – […]…

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  • Cyber Monday

    MASSIVE DISCOUNTS! TODAY ONLY! Cyber Monday is one of the only days of the year that we offer discounts on Online Pilates Workshops.   SALE ENDS TODAY – ACT NOW!!! click the links to see course descriptions & details… Online Pilates Apprentice (Comprehensive): SAVE $300.00!     Use Promo Code: CYBERAPPRENT Online Pilates Refresher (Comprehensive):  SAVE $150.00!     […]…

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  • Working as an Independent Contractor

    It’s rare that you will find a Pilates Studio which hires instructors as employees. For the most part, you will be working as a Pilates Instructor as an Independent Contractor. There are pros and cons to working as either an employee or an independent contractor. Working as an Employee In most cases, you will receive […]…

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  • Preparatory Counter Movement and Elastic Recoil

    In this video post I’m going to add on some exercises to continue the up training of our fascial body suit and the concept of preparatory counter movement and elastic recoil. Seated springy side bends, Kneeling arch/curl, Crab modification and open leg rocker are all offered as ways that we can build up to the […]…

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  • First Training Principle of Fascial Fitness & Preparatory Counter Movement

    I am recently back from Fascial Summer School in Ulm, Germany where I studied with top fascial researcher Robert Schleip and Fascial Fitness creator Divo Muller. These brilliant researchers have come up with 5 principles for training the fascia. I want to explore the first principle, preparatory counter movement. In this video post I’ll look […]…

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  • Mary Bowen Interview

    Please enjoy this interview with Pilates Elder Mary Bowen. We had such a good time hanging out with her while she was here filming her online workshops and teaching her Pilates Plus Psyche and Lifelong Pilates. If you’ve studied with Mary, you’ll know that her energy and fullness of life is simply undeniable. This interview […]…

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  • The Thoracolumbar Fascia

    by Jennifer Gianni I just got back from teaching a 12 hour Anatomy in Clay class in Hilton Head Is., S.C. at Core Pilates. It was a fabulous – a curious group will do that to a class. Twelve hours is never enough time and this was especially the case with this ‘hungry for knowledge’ […]…

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  • The Gazelle, the Kangaroo, and YOU 

    by Jennifer Gianni The age old standard in the science of movement and biomechanics is that muscles contract and shorten and this energy is transferred through passive tendons to create change in the joint and therefore a change in shape. And this is still true… but only for steady movement such as bicycling. In movements […]…

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  • The Fascial School

      I am just back from an awe inspiring and life changing educational experience in Germany at Ulm University where the 3rd Fascial Summer School took place. A group of only 75 of us that included medical professionals , researchers, body workers and movement therapists were in attendance. We had the incredible privilege of sitting […]…

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  • A Brief Animated History of Pilates

    We wanted to share our short history of Pilates video. This video is part of our Course Prep Program. We had a lot of fun making it. What do you think?!…

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  • Upper Back Strength & Flexibility with Classical Pilates Exercises

      What it is: To create true functionality in our bodies, we must have a balance of stability, strength, fluidity and flexibility. As we have seen in many previous entries, this concept of balancing the muscles and therefore the body is the core of the Pilates system. In Pilates we do not group our exercises […]…

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  • There’s Something About Mary

    We were fortunate enough to spend the week with Mary Bowen here at our home studio (laboratory!) in Asheville, NC. The following is a short excerpt from a three-hour interview with Mary in her home studio in Connecticut. We hope to have the rest for you soon. Until then, enjoy! Let us know what you […]…

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