Pilates Tonic

Release Tight Hips with this New Twist on a Vital Stretch This exercise takes the kneeling hip flexor stretch and brings in the upper body with a reach and a twist.

Wake up Your Sleeping Multifidi for Better Posture and Alignment In today’s video, I’ll show you how to wake up your multifidus muscles and improve your posture and relieve back pain.

Crack the Swan Code: A Fresh Look at Alignment for Better Back Strength I’ll show you how to take ribcage thrust out of an exercise called the Swan prep so you can put more upper back benefits into this traditional Pilates move.

Great article that takes a closer look at some of the assumptions made about knee joints and osteoarthritis!

"One of the things that's really shifted in our world today is that we sit all the time, and kids sit all the time. And that may be affecting how our joints are forming and how our joints are aging....Your joints aren't just like your automobile tires that wear out as you use them..."

6,000-Year-Old Knee Joints Suggest Osteoarthritis Isn't Just Wear And Tear Even after a Harvard team took into account differences in age and weight among ancient specimens and knees today, they found that modern humans tend to have more osteoarthritis.

Finishing up another week in the studio with amazing people!

Happy Holidays from Will, Sydney, Ari and the rest of the Tonic crew! The studio will be closed thru Monday, December 26. Have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you on Tuesday for our regular class schedule.

Words of wisdom from the playground...

Enhancing foot and ankle mobility by walking on a rock path in this morning's Active Alignment mat class!