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Before talking about a tight lower back, it may be best to answer the question: Where is the lower back? This is a lovely clear picture of the lower back. You can see the intervertebral discs in grey and the bones in between. Working down from the top we have the 12th Thoracic vertebra (that […]
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Like Douglas Adams, before you read this I would like to show you something: I qualified as a Pilates Instructor in 2004 and have been studying, training, learning and developing ever since. However, am I really teaching Pilates ? Does it matter? Come to think of it: What is Pilates and where did it come […]
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What Is the Shoulder & Come to think of it, Where is it? The shoulder is, in some ways a rather vague term. What we have is an upper arm bone and a shoulder blade. Also in the mix, but not actually the shoulder is the collar bone and the rib cage. Without them there […]
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First of all, what is the Mind-Body Split? Well it turns out that there is more than one way to describe it. In ultra simplified terms: there is the view that the Mind and the Body are essentially completely different entities. This is Dualism. Alternatively there is the view that Mind and Body are are […]
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