Use This Technique to Save Your Neck and Strengthen Your Arms

    It might sound dramatic, but what you’ll learn in today’s post would’ve saved my hairstyling career twenty years ago. Doing hair requires holding the arms up—a LOT! Add to it unconsciously lifting your shoulders with your arms for hours on end while holding a professional-grade blow dryer, brush or scissors, and you get […]

This Unconscious Shoulder Habit Could Be Causing Neck Pain

  Milestones like New Year’s come with pressure to change old habits—like, say, eating microwave popcorn with M&M’s while binge-watching Letterkenny and The Witcher at night… To new ones—like eating an apple and going to bed at 9 pm instead. Snacking at night and staying up late are some obvious habits, but what about the […]

Scarcity and Your Pilates Practice

I recently had the pleasure of taking an entire week off strictly for vacation. And I didn’t work on one single blog post! While taking a break may sound simple and easy enough, for me it’s a giant accomplishment. Why, you ask? Simply because I have believed for a long time that I just couldn’t […]

Take Tiny Steps to Achieve Your Ultimate Pilates Body

Secret Green Juice Ingredients

When it comes to Pilates Tonic and my personal goals, I have grand plans. And as you might imagine, with grand plans can come grand mental blocks. Here’s how I get through the blocks… It’s easy for me to get so wrapped up in focusing on the end result and the million things that have to […]

How Pointy-Toed Shoes Led to Healthy Feet

Slave to Fashion I’ve always been a fan of fashion. I’ve been expressing myself through the clothing and shoes I wear for as long as I can remember. And before discovering my passion as a movement educator, I was a hairstylist for fourteen years. I’m acutely conscious of the shoes I wear now, but that […]

Understanding Your Core Connections, Part 1

We’ve been working on a new video series that teaches the absolute, fundamental core connections you need in order to have a body that feels good to live in. Learning these connections is for everyone, whether you do Pilates, or any other exercise, or don’t even exercise at all. Your core muscles are the deepest […]