CorAlign Pilates

“Find a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life”…grateful to have found just that! Thank-you to all my Pilates peeps for being the the other 50% of the equation. 🙏🏻💕💪🏻

Saturday morning Pilates on the porch! Fantastic! Sunshine joined my class of 2. ☀️💕🙏🏻 Spaces like this always makes me want to host a Pilates retreat. Anyone interested?

For those of you who know the 5th Side Leg Lift…go for it! (use 1-4 as your warm-up 😉) For those of you who don’t know it…go for 1-4.
Move well & move often & have fun doing it!

Between long drives (gosh Ontario is a huge province!), mosquitos and morning dew, haven’t had a ton of time to move so far this trip but I can read and learn all about how to move well. 🤓😊👍🏻 I highly recommend this book by bio-mechanist Katy Bowman. (Workbook on same is being released this summer). Move well & move often everyone!

What does a Pilates Instructor do when she’s sick with a head cold and had to cancel her day? Like 99% of the population (if you sit most of the day this is likely you) I don’t do enough hip flexor stretching to improve my very limited hip extension which we all need to have to be able to walk properly. Can’t praise Joseph Pilates, Katy Bowman (NutritiousMovement.com) & the Foot Collective enough for their work…it’s all made a tremendous difference in my awareness and body. I love sharing what I’ve learned with anyone who wants to learn too. Pilates

What does a Pilates Instructor do when she’s sick with a head cold and had to cancel her day? Like 99% of the population (if you sit most of the day this is likely you) I don’t do enough hip flexor stretching to improve my very limited hip extension which we all need to have to be able to walk properly. Can’t praise Joseph Pilates, Katy Bowman (NutritiousMovement.com) & the Foot Collective enough for their work…it’s all made a tremendous difference in my awareness and body. I love sharing what I’ve learned with anyone who wants to learn too.

Did you know Fitness is Connected to Emotion? “Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness”. Joseph Pilates

Another important job that needs doing...bravo Clean Harbours Initiative! Just a suggestion, buy one less gift this holiday season and donate the money you would have spent to your favourite charity. My favourites: *t

Rose Blanche Post Fiona Clean Up Current cleaning efforts have been underway the last few days to help Rose Blanche. (Photo via John Organ.) Photo taken in Rose Blanche shortly after Hurricane Fiona Rose Blanche, one of many communities effected by hurricane Fiona, had sheds full of fishing gear washed

Great post from The Foot Collective.

Another brilliant post from good friends .physiotherapy 👏
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Train what you want to maintain ✔️

Your mobility is a representation of positions, movements, and ranges of motion that you use regularly.

➡️ Mobility is freedom to express movement. Maintaining mobility is an important aspect of your movement health and your overall health.

🔑 To keep your mobility, train the ranges of motion you wish to maintain.

Some examples of basic human positions and movements to train and maintain:
• Squat position/pattern
• Hip extension for gait
• Sitting positions (ie. cross leg, 9090)
• Hanging/overhead
• Toe touch/deep bend

Maintaining these can be done in a gym or home setting, with or without weight. It’s a matter of exposing yourself to the various planes of motion that you wish to keep using!

Getting comfortable and strong in the positions you want to maintain is a key part of maintaining them.

If your joints are used to being trained in a variety of ranges of motion, your body will be more free to move as it wants and needs during activities, tasks, sports, and life in general.

Make an effort to maintain your mobility by training it ✅
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How well do know your feet? Never give them much thought unless they hurt? Read this awesome post and follow.

We’ll said!

Great post by our friends at about replacing orthotics with hip muscles
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We talk about this all time

That the foot is only as stable as the hip that drives it. You can also hear us say, “it’s never just a foot problem”

When assessing foot function, you must assess hip function. Period

Rather than brace the foot and prevent its motion, we have to allow the foot to move and control its motion through proper function

Your hips control the arch of your work. Your glutes are therefore, your best “arch supports”

They can’t be bought. They must be developed
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