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Jocelyne Pelchat - Founder and Principal at The Cornerstone Pilates in Burlington, Ontario
There is evidence that links movement to memory and if the individual expresses joy when in movement, the memory will be retained. That being said, we use our memory of the past to guide our future decisions, but how can we go back and change our memory to a more positive one to encourage movement for the future?
Read MoreI discussed this diagnosis with Jocelyne. Her knowledge and training of how the body works, be it muscle, bone, tendons, ligaments, etc., helped assuage the fear this diagnosis instilled.
Read MoreIf you think of us as humans, our behaviours, our choices, our passions all require movement. But each and every thing we do requires a complex set of motor activations that are linked with one another to execute the behaviour. It all happens in a nanosecond.
Read MoreHow do you define success?
Happiness. I love laughing, so my question is do I get to laugh often or is my job bringing me down? It’s simple. Happiness is everything.
Read MoreWhat is the number 1 critical lesson you have learned in your career so far?
You are working with real people and every day brings something different. You need to be adaptable as an instructor. It's important to have an understanding of the human body and know the why and how of exercises but you must always teach to the person in front of you.
Read MoreWhat is the number 1 critical lesson you have learned in your career so far?
Consistency is better than perfection.
Read MoreWhat do you believe are the common misconceptions about Pilates?
That Pilates is meant for women. Many men do Pilates and more should try.
What is the best piece of business advice you have received to date?
Clients will return to their Pilates practice when they are ready! It’s a commitment to oneself and people have to be ready to take that on.
Read MorePause for a second and think of your favourite activity and then connect it with how you feel when you’re doing it. Procedural memory is intimately connected to our emotions via neural pathways.
Read MoreMemory is a theoretical construct that explains current behaviours by referencing them to events that happened in the past. Memory is basically how we function everyday. We don’t wake up every day and have to re-learn how to walk, how to dress ourselves, how to brush our teeth. This is cemented, it is learned.
Read MoreSedentariness today is changing the way our bodies move. Our skeleton counteracts the pull of gravity and our muscles should be able to move freely, but with our current culture, our bones become misaligned and our muscles tend to have to do some of the work of our bones.
Read MorePoor breathing patterns occur when ventilation exceeds metabolic demands. When stressed for example, we take shorter more sporadic breaths, which results in not fully exhaling. When we don’t fully exhale, it will result in upper chest breathing patterns.
Read MoreIn neuroscience, it is proven that the brain and the body both react in very similar ways. We KNOW that a pattern can never be erased.
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Reflexology is generally relaxing and calming. It relieves tension, improves nerve and blood supply and helps the body to achieve a state of homeostasis.
Read MoreThere are researchers in the field of movement that study and write thesis assignments based on the work that they do. Movement Specialists, studio owners, teacher training schools read these and create easy to understand programs based on this research to be made available to all Pilates Instructors and movement practitioners. This is called continuing education.
There wasn’t a single time, that after my practice on the reformer that my ailments didn’t disappear. I knew it had to have something to do with the feet. There was a connection with the pressure of the feet and the foot barre of the reformer. That’s how I got interested in Reflexology.
The experience of pain is deeply personal, shaped by the complex ways in which our brains process and respond to it.
Read MoreAttention to detail, specific cues to isolate specific muscle fibres when doing a set of exercises. Focused areas where we will tell you what you should feel and where you should feel it. This attention to detail delivers information through proprioception and motor control.
Read MoreThe psoas (pronounced so-az, is a deep muscle that’s part of our core) intricately webs our structural biomechanics and our emotions to form one heck of a powerful piece in our beautiful machine we call the human body.
Read MoreAdding Pilates to sports training helps the body learn to execute moves not only automatically, but with proper biomechanics. Using the core and deeper intrinsic muscles to move the arms and legs can prevent injuries.
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