Pilates with Alex

2016: When my hair was super short. The pandemic hadn't occurred. When my (2) horses & friends hadn't been taken from this earth. Looking back is bittersweet at best.

💪 Pilates & movement has remained a constant in my world since 1999. I am lucky even through the deep loss.

🗣️ As Mary Bowen just wrote to me: "One needs to have lived a long life to arrive at the WHOLE SELF! I am lucky."

📸 & I in Phoenix at the Annual PMA Conference 10 years ago.
I miss her 🥹

2016 📸 Yours truly giving Swan on the Barrel 🦢 (I still find this one of my favorite exercises to this day.)

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Another iconic moment at the Village Halloween parade! MJ & Thriller will always be part of the legendary spectacle 🙌 #mysecretnyc #culture 🎥: @rtanphoto

🗣️ & Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ solo weekend practice.

😎 It's a real drag this work didn't go further in the (Pilates) world.

💦 Anytime I have access to a pool, especially privately(!), Jen's boards are always with me.

👩‍🎓 After all, I'm (still) one of the pioneer Teachers of this program😎

🏊‍♂️ The pool work, or as Jen put it, "Joe's work translated on the side & in the water," always bridges the connection to my personal studio practice. I like to practice what I teach & change up my movement work regularly. 💪

✌️ While her IPA Program didn't take off as it was intended, I feel exceedingly lucky I was able to spend quality time with THE & other dear Pilates Teachers for so many years, both in the water & the studio.

💎 She was a gem & is greatly missed.

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This 65-year-old woman is a pull-up legend: "It's never too late." 💪 https://abcnews.link/NX1h9mi

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Judith Jamison, Transcendent Dancer And Artistic Director Of Alvin Ailey Company, Dead At 81 Judith Jamison, an internationally acclaimed dancer who later served as artistic director of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater for two decades, has died.

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Simone Biles rising above it all and gettin’ that flippin’ gold in Paris 🥇🐐.....#flipbook #simonebiles #paris2024