My Words.
A collection of musings from a movement professional.
Focusing on evidence-based pain relief, mental state, wellness, and self-care for both clients and teachers in and out of the studio. Movement is healing, movement is life.
Post-Pandemic Reflections
As we start to emerge from the pandemic, we’re evaluating what we want to resume from our old lives, and what changes we want to make, based on what we’ve learned during lockdown.
Take a Pause
Even though many people multitask regularly, humans can’t actually focus on more than one thing at a time. While we may think we’re multitasking, we’re actually just rapidly switching from one task to another. So when was the last time you single-tasked?
Ergonomics is the Foundation, Movement is the Key
Movements done consistently throughout the day will take mere minutes of your time but will help to diminish pain and fatigue, allowing the body to feel healthy at the end of the day instead of normally stiff and stagnant.
“New Year, New You”-No Thanks
I always find this time of year to be a good time for reflection, to look back over the past year, and to look forward to directing my energy in guiding the path ahead. However, I don’t believe in the fitness industry’s idea of new year’s resolutions…
Working from Home Ergonomics
Do you feel pain after a long day sitting at work? Learn why and the tips to reduce pain, fatigue, and discomfort from your working from home set-up.
The Body, Dance, and its Rhythms
I'm learning to decode the body, leaning into physical sensation, listening to what the body needs, allowing it to change day to day. Sometimes the drive for speed and strength, sometimes a soft flow, other times complete stillness. Impulse changes, as does the flow of life.
Body Liberation
Shouldn't our strength, how we feel, our energy, our capability, our vibrancy for life be what we focus on instead of a number on a scale? I want to be able to do things, lift things, move my body freely, and be active.
Pilates Studios Post-COVID: What to Expect And How To Prepare
Will we ever return to exercising among fellow fitness lovers? Here’s what it’s going to take once we can flatten the curve.
What is the Future of Gyms?
The entire fitness and wellness industry has been necessarily adaptable during this time. Fitness is one of the most resilient industries as we’ve always been ready to incorporate new trends, adapting to what clients need and expect.
Fitness during COVID: A Pilates Instructor's Story
Within one weekend my entire business model changed. It felt like I had lost my whole business. I contacted my entire list of weekly clients informing of our immediate closure, offering virtual sessions.
How to Maintain Fitness During COVID
How to keep up with your fitness routine during COVID. It is more important than ever to keep up with a regular fitness routine as we deal with the health and stress impacts of the global pandemic.
Stress and Self-Care
Self-care is always important for lasting health, but especially when so many issues arise at once we need to embrace the space we can find to take time to rest and breathe, as managing stress sooner rather than later can assist in the prevention of long-term consequences.
Female Athletic Triad
I've been thinking a lot about body image this past week. There are many layers of body image, and body shaming from social expectations in many aspects of daily life. Since my profession focuses on fitness, wellness, movement therapy, and dance, body image is a common theme in all these spaces.
Connecting Virtually and Keep Moving
So, here we go again, gyms and other non-essential, indoor businesses must close back down amidst the COVID-19 numbers surging. Even as many people were returning to normalcy for summer holidays or thinking we would soon be returning to a greater sense of normal life, we have to remove our expectations and readapt.
Pilates Ortho-Rehab…not just Yoga and Stretches
when I’m asked what I do…I study movement. I understand how to move, and I know how to help others move better. What is Pilates Ortho-rehab and how do I explain what I do?
Change is Challenging
After everything shut down at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis in the States, we had to alter our work environment, our hobbies, our errands. Everything changed. Within a matter of days, the fitness industry and the dance industry were successfully set up online with classes…