I want to give everyone a heads up that this summer is jammed packed so try to get yourself on the schedule and try to cancel out as soon as you know you have to give others the spot. Remember you can always schedule yourself in an hour before the class or private but cancel yourself out 13 hrs before your class or Private.

I will be out of the studio June 6-8th then I will out July 1- 6. If you need an extension on your expiration date, please let me know, otherwise remember you have two months to complete your sessions.

Mat Classes is a great place to be during the summer! You can now buy 5 or 10 Sessions. Tuesday and Thursday 10am are for beginners or for special considerations. Thursday 9am is for those who are confident in the vocabulary of the Pilates exercises and firm in their modifications if they have them. Always remember that Mat Classes is for YOU! looking to the person to the right or left of you isn’t going to help YOUR body. Sure, if you don’t know what leg circles are, do a quick peek, but then get back into your body and follow the instructions:

press the body into the ground, back of the head, shoulder blades, hands pressing into the floor as well. One leg up toward the high diagonal or ceiling, opposite leg either in home position or long and straight out pressing into the floor. Make a small circle with the leg that’s up and feel the circle coming from the femur bone (thigh bone) in the joint, pelvis stays strong and stable. Could you see that in your mind? could you, do it?

When I first started Pilates that’s where I was started on the floor, doing the mat exercise to help me understand the body placements, breath, the spine to move onto the apparatus.

See you in class! and don’t stop when it gets hard!

Client Highlight!

I want to give a shot out to a client. Just this past week I came to a moment with her during her Private that literally made me want to cry tears of joy! Some of you have come to me so broken down, I know what it’s like to be broken physically. It really messes with your psyche. It’s painful because we remember when moving through our body was easy and effortless...but as our wisdom begins to grow, we realize we’ve overlooked some physical elements that’s created pain, lack of movement and before we know it, we’re broken. Well, she was there when she first stepped foot into my studio and knowing how Pilates meet me right where I was, I knew it could meet her. As a year past, she came to decision to undergo a surgery, I fully supported it because I know from 20 years of working with bodies, she will number 1 not be in pain and number 2 when pain stops, you get to move again, freely!! After her first surgery and feeling freedom, she knew she had to have another...and then...ONE MORE! Yes! you counted right 3!!! surgeries...all new parts. The pain being eliminated, the lack of movement not being a factor any more, brought back a quality of movement. Oh gosh I’m eyes are swelling. Finally, after all of the HARD, Difficult work she has put in, her body is REALLY moving and the Pilates movements/exercises are really reshaping her. It is so beautiful to watch, experience and be a part of. Honestly, in some ways this new chapter is her new start.

Look, this didn’t happen overnight, in a span of one year or really even two years...it took over a lot of time, and as stated she isn’t even done...are we really ever done? should we be done? NO! Every BODY is on its own path and journey and as we go along, we learn deeper in the Pilates method, that makes us go deeper into our bodies. We find ourself stuck at a spot, we have to ask ourselves why? How can I get unbroken? How can I bring back or bring in movement to this part of the body? Don’t ignore it, face it and keep going.

Change is hard to start

Messy in the middle

and Gorgeous in the End

Heidi