Turning Pointe Pilates

To all my dear clients and colleagues, wishing you a wonderful Easter time! Shine your light bright in this world! We need you! 🥰🙏🏻🐣

Absolutely! 3 days in not enough to learn how to master this! 🙏🏻

Strong teaching frameworks remain central to the quality and integrity of Pilates practice.

A recent research article, Six Basic Principles and Steps for Teaching Pilates Exercises in Physical Education by Çiğdem Bacak, Emine Busra Yilmaz, Ferman Konukman and Andrew Sortwell, revisits the foundations of Pilates instruction and how they support effective learning environments.

The paper highlights the six well-known Pilates principles: concentration, control, centering, precision, flow and breathing, alongside six practical teaching steps: preparation, demonstration, progressive teaching, individual feedback, review and cool-down.

As the authors note, “the effectiveness of the method lies not only in the exercises themselves, but in the structure and quality of instruction.”

For those committed to maintaining high standards in teaching, this research is a useful reminder that thoughtful progression, clear cueing and attentive supervision remain essential to meaningful and safe practice.

Read the full article here:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07303084.2025.2601812

I like this! 🥰👍

If your knee hurt after 45, watch this! This video is for educational and entertainment purposes only and is not medical advice. Please consult a healthcare professional for personal medical concerns. Credit: @midlifehealth_lab #physiotherapy #osteopathy #knee #kneepain #pain

Yay! Congratulations Bangarra! 🥰👏🥂

We’re thrilled to announce that we’ve been awarded the prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Dance by the Biennale Danza 2026, the dance division of La Biennale di Venezia, becoming the first Australians to receive the esteemed award since its inception.

The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded during the 20th International Festival of Contemporary Dance in Venice from 17 July – 1 August this year. Our company will travel to Venice to receive the award, where we will also present the European premiere of Frances Rings’ seminal work, Terrain.

“This prestigious award recognises all those who have come before me at Bangarra; our dancers, Uncle Rob Bryant, Cheryl Stone and Carole Y. Johnson who founded the company, our premiere First Nations training institution NAISDA - the National Aboriginal Islander Skills Development Association, and Stephen Page who led Bangarra for thirty years, working alongside his brothers Russell and David Page”- Frances Rings, Bangarra Artistic Director and Co-CEO

To find out more about this exciting honour, click here: https://bit.ly/BDTGoldLion

La Biennale di Venezia
Governor-General of Australia
Tony Burke MP
Creative Australia

I felt very blessed to see these legends on my birthday and have an awesome Pilates workout from Frances Cahill from Pilates International Training Centre 🥰🙏🏻

Great work from Samantha Walsh! Very grateful to have had the opportunity to assist with her study. 🙏🏻😊

Postpartum pelvic floor rehab is more than just Kegels. In our systematic review and meta-analysis (11 controlled trials, 503 postpartum women), the most consistent improvements in pelvic floor strength and endurance were observed when pelvic floor muscle training was combined with lumbo–pelvic–hip complex strengthening (core, hips and lower body). Endurance improved by ~5.5 seconds. Strength improved by 0.43 on the Modified Oxford Scale. The overall certainty of evidence remains low due to small sample sizes and variability between interventions. The independent effect of LPHC training alone remains inconclusive. However, the direction of evidence supports a multidomain, progressive and individualised approach to postpartum rehabilitation. Postpartum recovery should move beyond time-based clearance and toward structured, evidence-informed programming. This is the foundation of POSTFIT. #postpartumexercise #womenshealth #postpartumstrength #exercisephysiology #pelvicfloordysfunction

Strength Without High Impact

Pilates builds strength and flexibility without excessive joint loading, making it ideal for rehabilitation, injury prevention, and long-term movement health.

A systematic review by da Luz et al. (2014) found Pilates significantly improves muscle strength, flexibility, and functional performance across a wide range of populations.

Strong, supported, and sustainable movement 💪✨

📚 da Luz, M. A., Costa, L. O. P., Fuhro, F. F., Manzoni, A. C. T., Oliveira, N. T. B., & Cabral, C. M. N. (2014). Effectiveness of Pilates exercise in healthy people: A systematic review. Journal of Physiotherapy, 60(1), 6–15.

We come for the stretch.
We stay for the strength.
We question our life choices during teaser. 😏 Unless we're showing off at some exotic location! 🤣

Pilates supports mental health as well as physical strength.

A study by Caldwell et al. (2009) reported improvements in mood, sleep quality and perceived stress following participation in a Pilates-based mind–body program.

📚 Caldwell, K., Harrison, M., Adams, M., Quin, R., & Greeson, J. (2009). Developing mindfulness in college students through movement-based courses. Journal of American College Health, 58(5), 433–442.

Pilates teaches you many things:
✨ Control
✨ Breath
✨ The shocking discovery of muscles you didn’t know existed