Living Well Pilates

Wonderful professional learning opportunity. CPMS

100 years of Pilates education. Purchase before September 1st and Pay No GST! This November, CPMS brings the Pilates community together for an exclusive three day conference built around the way Pilates is meant to be learned: hands on, focused and personal. Learn directly from leading educators in intimate rooms with limited participants, deepen your practice and connect with professionals who are helping shape the future of Pilates in Canada. The conference is exclusive to registered CPMS members and spaces are intentionally limited. Register with CPMS and secure your place at the 100 Years of Pilates Education Conference.

France has graduated Living Well Pilates Teacher Training for Reformer with additional Advanced Apparatuses in the meantime.

And she is jumping for joy!!!!!

✨ A NEW CHAPTER. A DREAM REALIZED. ✨ Today is a very special day for me. 🤍 After two years of studying, practicing, learning, and pushing myself beyond what I thought was possible, I have officially completed all of my Pilates certifications. 🎓✨ ✨ Mat Pilates ✨ Reformer ✨ Anatomy of Movement ✨ Wunda Chair ✨ Cadillac — all three parts ✨ Jump Board At 53, starting over and becoming a Pilates instructor was not easy. Along the way, life tested me in ways I never expected. Recovering from a stroke and facing my own health challenges could have made me stop. But I didn’t. I studied harder. I showed up. I kept learning. I kept moving forward. And I learned that sometimes the hardest chapters of our lives lead us to the most beautiful new beginnings. I am incredibly grateful to my amazing teacher, Mary German, for her knowledge, patience, guidance, and belief in me. Thank you for helping me become not only a better instructor, but a better student of the body and of life. 🤍 Today, I see life differently. I am stronger. I am more grateful. And I understand more than ever that our bodies are capable of so much when we give them patience, movement, and love. This isn’t just a collection of certifications. It represents resilience. It represents starting again. It represents believing in yourself. It represents never giving up. And now… there is another dream on the horizon. ✨ 🤎 My very own Pilates studio is coming soon. 🤎 Avant-Garde Pilates has been a dream in my heart, and I am so excited to finally bring it to life and create a beautiful space where movement, strength, wellness, and connection come together. This is only the beginning. 🫶🏻 Thank you, Mary, and thank you Living Well Pilates, for being such an important part of my journey. With gratitude in my heart and so much excitement for what comes next. ✨ #AvantGardePilates #PilatesInstructor #PilatesStudio Pilates | Classical Pilates | Reformer Pilates | Mat Pilates | Wunda Chair | Cadillac | Jump Board | Movement | Wellness | Strength | Resilience | Pilates Studio

Meet @themotherscall

We will trade 5 cobra chickens for 2 of those Mustangs you don't want anymore. #rant #teacher #Canada #usa #trade

We made it to Episode 7 of 7 and we saved the best for last 🙌✨ Movement Minute Monday with Mary German wraps up this week with something truly special — side hanging on the Cadillac. Hanging from the side opens up the ability to step down and forward, creating a full lower body connection that works through the toes, ankles, knees and hips all at once 🔥 And here is the key thing Mary wants you to understand, your limbs need to be IN the exercise. The moment they check out, you leak energy. And in Pilates, energy leaks mean lost results 💡 This is the kind of detail that separates good movement from great movement. This is what we teach at Living Well Pilates every single day 🤍 The incredible Julia bringing it home beautifully in our final episode 👏 If this series made you curious about what your body is capable of, come find out in person 😊 📩 DM us to book your spot!

Semi-Circle on the Reformer 🤍 One of the things I love most about Reformer work is that it isn’t just about doing the exercise. It’s about understanding what your body is doing while you’re doing it. Semi-Circle is a perfect example. There’s so much happening here: control, articulation, stability, mobility and learning how to create movement from the right places. Something I’ve really enjoyed in my private sessions is helping clients develop that mind-body connection. Once they start to actually feel where movement is coming from and understand how to engage the right muscles, it carries over into everything else they do. I’ve had clients tell me they’re suddenly feeling exercises differently, connecting to muscles they struggled to find before and getting so much more out of their workouts. Sometimes it’s not about working harder. It’s about learning how to work better. 🤍 If you’re interested in working with me privately on the Reformer, send me a DM and we can chat about sessions. 🤍

US government miracles…

Apparently I have been ✨CURED✨ according to Social Security!!! 😭♿️ After almost 8 years, I received a letter saying my disability has “ended.” Spoiler alert…I am, in fact, still paralyzed😂😂 I still use a wheelchair. I still can’t walk. I still need accessible parking, accommodations, adaptive equipment…ya know, all those fun little disabled person things. What they ACTUALLY mean is that I no longer qualify for SSDI benefits because I’ve been working and earning above Social Security’s monthly income limit. For anyone who doesn’t know, SSDI has work incentives that allow you to test your ability to work while still receiving benefits. One of those is a 9-month Trial Work Period. After that, there are additional rules around how much you can earn and continue receiving SSDI benefits. So no, my spinal cord did not spontaneously regenerate🤣😂 My disability didn’t “end.” I wish it were that easy🫠 I built a career that eventually allowed me to earn too much to continue receiving my monthly SSDI benefit…and THAT is something I’m incredibly freaking proud of. 🥹 I’m obviously being very sarcastic in this video because the wording of the letter absolutely SENT ME. Like congratulations everyone!!! I have been healed!!! 😂🙌🏼 But underneath the joke, this is actually a pretty huge milestone for me😍 From wondering what my life, independence, and career would look like after becoming paralyzed…to building multiple businesses, working for myself, and reaching a point where I no longer qualify for SSDI because of my income! THAT part feels pretty damn good🫶🏼♿️ And just a reminder y’all, your disability status and your ability to earn an income are two completely different things!! #WheelchairUser #SpinalCordInjury #SocialSecurityBenefits #DisabilityAwareness #AdaptiveTrainer