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Move Like Your Life Depends On It.
The research is loud and clear.
Sitting is the new smoking.
You’ve heard this line before, and it’s not just another passing trend.
If we want to improve health on all levels or increase our chances of aging well and living longer,
we have to ….
When Deep Breathing Becomes a Pain In The Neck
When we feel stress rising, and start to sense pain, headaches or tension, connecting with our breath can be an effective tool. As something we do over 20,000 times per day, breathing is worth some consideration.
Common Cues We Should Question
Cues and images are very personal. Pilates teachers can offer a cue to a group class and get 5 different responses as to how that cue is embodied. The direction to simply “Stand Up Tall” can illicit a variety of responses from improving posture and alignment, to worsening posture and tension levels and adding excess neck strain…
Clamshells: What are they good for?
If you’ve ever sought help for hip or knee pain, patella femoral syndrome, or a chronically tight Ilio-Tibial (IT) Band, chances are you’ve been given the clamshell exercise…
The Latest Word On Kegels
Pelvic Floor Health: beyond the Kegel Tiffany Johns, B. Kin., is one of our Vancouver based Pilates Process ™ teacher trainers. A recent graduate of UBCs kinesiology program, Tiffany’s final project was the development of a paper presenting the most recent...
DON’T STRETCH GRUMPY THINGS: LISTEN TO YOUR BODY
Stretching can and should feel wonderful. When we stretch healthy tissue, we should experience a sense of comfort and ease that leads to a greater range of motion. And…
Chronic Pain
Working with clients in various levels of pain over the past 15 years, I’ve developed an understanding, a respect, of the specific challenge that is coping with chronic pain. Fluctuating in intensity but always present, the pain is frequently without obvious cause....
Pelvic Floor Health – It’s All The Rage
Of late, pelvic floor function is a hot topic.Not the coolest of topics I would have thought ... but so very important to lower body function that it is often the missing link in addressing low back, pelvic, hip or knee pain. Anyone working in therapeutic movement in...
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