About last year at this time, I got a phone call from the Polestar Pilates Office. They were telling me about a student that wanted to join our current comprehensive series on the third weekend. One of the things I love about Polestar is the flexibility of the course. This student was going to join […]
Continue readingWow! Thinking about how I met Lauren…It must have been about 14 years ago, long before she started the journey to become a Pilates Instructor. She came to The Pilates Studio as an ultimate frisbee player with a knee injury, or was it an ankle injury? I actually can’t remember. All I remember is her […]
Continue readingWow five weeks in! I was asked a fantastic question at this past class that gave me the idea for this blogpost. How do I know which are the best running exercises for me? Of course!!! We’ve created this conditioning class and taught you so many exercises but how do you know which are the […]
Continue readingAbout four years ago, I met a young man at The Pilates Studio. He came to me with what his doctor called Upper and Lower Cross Syndrome. He was nineteen and it was clear upon first glance that he had spent some time around free weights. His shoulders were huge! After we chatted for a […]
Continue readingWOW! Four weeks! How did it go? In this class we explored hip extension for running. Coupling hip extension of one leg with the flexion of the other is how you find stride length safely! Remember that first week when we taught airplane? We mentioned hugging your knee as close to your chest as much […]
Continue readingWhen you look at the Kneeling arm series on the Pilates Reformer you see an exercise that strengthens the muscles of the arms. As students work their way through all of the versions of this exercise, it’s true through resistance training, they are challenging all of the muscles of the shoulder girdle in all planes […]
Continue readingJoseph Pilates observed animals as he developed his method. He says in his book return to life, “true rhythm and control is observed both in domestic pets and wild animals – without exception.” We were standing around the front counter at The Pilates Studio when we decided to create the following video. At first we […]
Continue readingI felt great after my first day on the Pilates Apparatus, but man, my abs were sore! I arrived a few minutes early to my appointment to a bustling studio. There were a few other people on the reformers, cracking jokes and working hard. Everyone was in good spirits because we’re experiencing the first week […]
Continue readingHappy Mother’s day and Happy week three of The Pilates Studio’s Learn to run series. My hope is that people are starting to feel the added strength in the tissues around the hips. As well as the mobility in the hip sockets and thoracic spine. In the next weeks we will begin to focus on […]
Continue readingOkay, here we are at the final segment of the Polestar Pilates Teacher Training Principles. This is the movement integration principle, or in other words, how the heck do we put all of this together? If you are a fitness professional, imagine this scenario: Someone comes into work with you, he is carrying a backpack […]
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