How does our Brain Perceive Pain in our Body?

The experience of pain is deeply personal, shaped by the complex ways in which our brains process and respond to it.

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Pilates: Movement that gives you "All The Feels"

Attention 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.

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What is this thing called the “psoas” muscle?

The 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.

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Release Endorphins and Beat Depression with Pilates

Endorphins are a natural chemical created in your brain that interacts with special receptors to reduce your perception of pain. They also trigger a positive feeling which increases the anti-depression aspect much like exercises like Pilates.

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Athletes get the Edge with Pilates Improving their Game

Adding 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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Can Pilates Help With Weight Loss

To lose weight, you need the physical capability to do exercises. Many people who are busy and/or sedentary struggle to perform weight loss exercises. Pilates will help you build strength, tone your core and increase flexibility and range of motion in your joints.

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Building a Small Business

Build your brand and stick to it. There will be days when you want to give in, when you start to second guess yourself and wonder if you went about it all wrong. Stick to what you know, your main reason for starting and don’t add what the business around the corner is adding just to compete with them. Instead, be better at what you know, continuously learn about your trade and become the expert you need to be for the best outcome for your clients.

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Pilates and MS

In Pilates you learn to move correctly, with the right muscles, firing at the right time. This helps prevent fatigue (one of the most common symptoms) because you aren’t using more muscles than necessary. We learn to isolate specific muscles and instead of recruiting a whole mass of muscles to do an exercise…

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Pilates and the Pelvic Floor - important for both men and women

The pelvic floor muscles make for our body’s core along with the abdominal and back muscles. They form a supportive web of interrelated muscles, ligaments, and tendons, sitting at the base of the pelvic bowl. These muscles belong to the group we focus on during core strength exercises in Pilates.

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My Experience as a Dissector

After 2 hours, we had the honour of meeting our bodies. Having been in a shared space with the cadavers, all 5 of them, for 2 hours…. we were calm, aware of their presence, but no longer nervous about the prospect of meeting them for the first time.

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Osteoporosis and Pilates

Pilates conditions your entire body relying on a set of exercises designed to strengthen your core, i.e., muscles of the stomach and back. Since people with osteoporosis have weakened bones, Pilates exercises can help strengthen and rebuild bone.

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Pilates: Good for the Body, Great for the Brain

The great news is that Pilates is an excellent way to help prevent the onset of dementia and Alzheimers. Although there is no scientific proof to this, research has shown that mentally training the brain and regular cognitive activity in the child, middle age or older adult showed significant signs of slower late-life cognitive decline.

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The Fundamentals of a Foundation Class

The Foundation class is designed to introduce someone new to the concepts of Pilates, the terminology, and the language we use, but also to build the body up in order to eventually be able to move on to the Integration (Intermediate level) and Signature (Advanced level) class that we offer. If you come to Pilates and want that feel of building blocks and a start to progress, then that’s the path you would take.

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How Pilates Helps Skiers and Snowboarders

Pilates improves flexibility, agility and range of motion, and is a safe form of movement making it optimal for snowboarders and skiers as a form of exercise to do all year round to get ready for the slopes when winter time hits.

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Neutral Spine vs Imprinted Spine

The optimal and most efficient way to work your body – spine and pelvis is in neutral. If your pelvis is neutral it allows your spine to be neutral, in its natural form. We need to develop muscle strength around our bones to maintain the alignment of our bodies and thus prevent collapsing or degenerating over time. The “neutral” in that sense would be vital as we want to be strong and keep our bones in correct alignment. When you start to build the muscles and the bones aren’t in alignment, you are building a body where you may start to see deficiencies.

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