Bolstering Benefits for Your Knees, Hips, and Ankles

Bolstering Benefits for Your Knees Hips Ankles

For her entire life, my grandmother took baths, never showers. Mostly to prevent her hair from getting wet, which she washed and set herself once every two weeks on Thursdays like clockwork. Little did she know, her bathing habit not only preserved her hairstyle but also preserved her ability to move freely well into her […]

How to Get the Benefits of the Squat without Squatting

image of Sydney demoing squat prep on the mat

Have you ever seen a child squatting down checking out rocks, ants, or some other little critter crawling around on the ground and felt amazed by the ease and flexibility in their little body? And then, when it’s time to get up, they pop right up with no effort at all. Do your knees hurt […]

How to Maintain Knee, Ankle, Hip and Pelvic Floor Health with a Simple Squat

Squatting multiple times daily is one of the best ways to maintain knee, ankle, hip and pelvic floor health while also keeping arthritis at bay. But in our Western culture, squatting is an ability many of us have lost because we’ve stopped going all the way to the ground and instead stop our range of […]

The Ankle Bone’s Connected to the Calf Stretch…

Foot and ankle health equals whole body health… When I first start working with a new client, the feet and ankles are primary areas for review. This is a core component of our work because it’s so critical to all future success in Pilates as well as life in general. Telltale signs in the feet and ankles reveal […]