Mindful Movement

09/30/2026

🧡 Today, we pause.

Our studio is closed today as we take time to honour the children who never came home, the Survivors of residential schools, and the families and communities who continue to carry this history.

May today be a reminder to slow down, listen, learn, and reflect on what reconciliation means — not just today, but every day.

We hold space for remembering, for healing, and for hope.

🧡 Every Child Matters

09/24/2026

Sarah has been working on her long box teaser for years and yesterday she got it 🎉🎉
(This is someone who could barely move her spine in any direction when we first started working together 7 years ago - so this is major 🥳)

The thing about these more challenging exercises is that it is so much more about the journey than the destination.
We can get so focused on the aesthetics of something or what the final piece of the puzzle looks like that it’s easy to miss all the steps that got us here in the first place.

Wherever you are in your Pilates journey, you’re doing amazing. Every single day you show up is progress. (Even when it might not feel like it)

09/16/2026

What am I actually training here?

Am I training strength?
Mobility?
Coordination?
Balance?
Breath?
Concentration?
Control?
Or the ability to put all of those things together?

What if this exercise wasn’t available to me? Maybe because of balance, strength, ROM, or maybe even I don’t have a Pilates chair to do this work on. Then what?

Part of being a good teacher is undertanding Pilates as a system rather than just a collection of exercises.

Sometimes it’s not about modifying the exercise on the chair, but looking at where we can work this in a different plane or a different piece of equipment or even on the mat.

Pilates is like a science experiment sometimes. There’s always somewhere else we can take a movement sequence. It might not look the same, but we’re training the same movement pattern and preparing the body and the brain for something more challenging or more complex.

This is what keeps this work so interesting and inspiring.

09/14/2026

Monday Moves 🌟

There are many different ways to practice your planks in Pilates. This exercise here is kind of a combination of knee stretches, knees off, and long stretch.
The key is to initiate the movement from the hips not the arms. When I teach this, I describe it as reaching the hips onto the femurs, the femurs onto the feet and the feet onto the box to find your power. Your arms are more the the kick stand.

Take your time to find the precision in the plank. Practice your containers (where’s your head, scapula, ribs, and pelvis)
And take a beat when you find it. That’s where the juice is.

09/14/2026

A snippet from the Mindful Movement annual summer BBQ.
Blessed to work alongside these amazing humans.
💙❤️💖

09/09/2026