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What is a Wellness Grift? Basically a grifter is a con artist and what they do is grifting. The wellness industry is littered with them. People who exploit aspects of wellness for personal gain. Lots of people have got in on this act. Some well meaning, some foolish, some out and out grifters, The wellness […]
Continue ReadingA Squash & a Squeeze. New pelvic floor regime or wellness grift?
So you have a diagnosis of Osteoporosis. Why do Pilates ? It is quite a stressful thing to receive a diagnosis of Osteoporosis. You don’t know how it is going to impact your future, your lifestyle, quality of life or even life expectancy. You don’t know which activities are safe and what are best avoided. I […]
Continue ReadingPilates for Osteoporosis: Pros & ConsThe Pilates Hundred Exercise: iconic, demanding and misunderstood The Hundred is one of the most famous Pilates exercises in the repertoire It is one of Joseph Pilates’ original 34, as outlined in his 1945 book, A Return to Life Through Contrology Back then Pilates didn’t have its eponymous name. Joseph Pilates called his method Contrology […]
Continue ReadingHow I learnt to love the Pilates Hundred. It was Cent to try me!
So, Pilates and Bone Health : what’s the deal? Well it is a big one: As we age we need to work at bone health: Guard against losing strength and bone mass. How can Pilates help with that? Osteoporosis, or Brittle Bones is a health problem waiting in the wings for us all in the […]
Continue ReadingBone Try! How Pilates can help Bone HealthA Pilates Instructor who does not cue the core? Here is a short piece on what I do teach and why, instead of the explicit teaching points such as “pull in your abs” “engage your core”, “brace your abs” etc I don’t explicitly ask you to work your core, strengthen your core, use your core […]
Continue ReadingPilates Core. I don’t cue it, so what do I teach then?