by Tara Filliater | Oct 17, 2023 | Pilates, Uncategorized
I’ve been teaching Pilates for over 20 years and have had many clients with varieties of issues. Over the years I’ve found that there are some people that have a hard time connecting their core and specifically, their deep abdominal muscles to their...
by Sarah Crawford | Mar 20, 2021 | Pilates
Several years ago, while teaching a mat class, one of my newer clients asked, after hearing my unending queues to engage the abdominals: “So, do you walk around all day long sucking your gut in?” My first image was of someone aggressively sucking their gut in to look...
by Sarah Crawford | Nov 24, 2020 | Physical Therapy, Pilates
How Pilates Builds Self-Awareness For nearly a decade I have relied on Pilates based exercises to help teach my patients about their bodies. My interest in Pilates started way back when I was working in neurologic rehab, primarily with individuals who experienced a...
by Sarah Crawford | Oct 19, 2020 | Pilates
8 REASONS WHY YOU SHOULD DO PILATES It’s often thought that Pilates is a female-dominated practice but in reality, many men participate as well, especially athletes. Used as a form of cross-training, athletes across the genders rely on Pilates to improve their...
by Sarah Crawford | Feb 10, 2020 | Physical Therapy, Pilates
Walking Away From Delivery Kegels are the universal prescription for pelvic floor dysfunction among women. But is that really enough to effectively treat and restore the pelvic floor after pregnancy and delivery? Most people do not consider pregnancy to be an injury...
