In the January 2010 edition of IDEA Fitness Journal there is a great article titled “The Painful Lumbar Spine…Cause, Consequences, and Therapeutic Exercise for Lower-Back Issues”. In it there is scientific explanation of various terms like herniation and delamination and what causes...

I don’t know why, but there seems to be a baby boom going on at my studio! In the past 3 months I’ve had four of our students deliver healthy, happy babies, after continuing with their Pilates workouts up to the very end! Two more expectant ladies are still working as hard as ever and keeping...

My appreciation of the profound holistic healing benefits of the classical Pilates system in working with special populations has once again been renewed. Whether the primary issue is a foot, knee, hip, back, shoulder, ankle or wrist, it is the consistent application of the classical format and exercise...

One of the things that sets Pilates apart from other kinds of physical training is the use by teachers of descriptive imagery in their cueing of the exercises. This imagery-rich cueing serves to enhance the physical experience of Pilates exercise by engaging the mind to connect with the work through...

Wow! I am just home from Holland – Papendal to be exact. Our MVe Trainer Camp was at the Olympic Training Center there. It was so cool to be in a center where everything was focused on performance. As I walked down the hall to our training rooms, I had to walk past a visual depiction of Bob Beamons’...