Pilates Heartcore Rancho Cordova

If you want to argue that people deserve to be dragged off the streets and disappeared or that bombing starving families using our tax dollars is necessary- you are making it clear you aren’t ANYONE I want near my business. People deserve a right to a good life. We should be helping people- not fu***ng terrorizing and killing them for sport.

There are more of us than you. This kind of narcissistic destruction can never sustain itself. We will be here to pick up the pieces and rebuild everything you’ve worked so hard to destroy. My kids deserve better than this and I will loudly be here to make it happen. You can count on that.

And the place you go should welcome every version of you. 🖤

Pilates Heartcore is a business. But I am a person. And I care about other people. I think everyone deserves care, compassion and dignity and a chance at a good life.

I feel so fu***ng powerless. I watch bad s**t just repeating over and over. I feel helpless to stop anything. Genocide. ICE. Heathcare. Lynchings.

I hold on hard to the people of Pilates Heartcore and their goodness. Their friendships and community make me grounded. Seeing students talking and laughing with each other keeps me going. Watching them get strong- to be stay independent and capable- gives me a purpose. It would be easier to just shut off. But I can’t. I won’t. We can’t let ourselves do that. Too many feelings is better than no feelings.

Just because it’s the way it has always been done doesn’t make it okay. In yourself. In your family. In your work. In your friendships. In your choices. In our cities. In our government. In our way of thinking. In how we treat people. In what we believe. In how we act. In what we say. In how we treat ourselves. In how we treat others.

Just cause something IS doesn’t make it right.

When so much is so wrong what can I or we do? I don’t know what to do. And this is what keeps me up at night. The world and its people are a beautiful, amazing and mind blowing thing. And men are destroying it. On purpose. I just don’t understand.

Sometimes…we do s**t tired. And we do s**t sad. We do s**t angry. We do s**t numb. It isn’t always because we want to and it definitely isn’t always fun.

Taking care of yourself can be a bitch sometimes. We try hard to get you through on those s**t days.

That’s what community does.
Together we take care of ourselves.

Truth be told- finding Pilates was “the moment” I started accepting my body. It introduced me to my body as a friend, versus the nemesis I was making her out to be.

I spent decades restricting my eating, binging on off days, relentlessly exercising 2-3 hours a day, always trying to achieve the smallest body possible- and never getting there. I was judgmental, full of guilt and never felt like my body was good enough. I was in pain but still pushed myself. I always had something to fix and calories to burn.

Then I tried a Pilates private session because my low back and shoulder pain was becoming unbearable. After 3 sessions I started to feel my body differently. There wasn’t a mirror. There wasn’t a calorie count. There wasn’t talk about what my body needed to “look like.” It was all about how it felt. How it moved. What it could do. It blew my fu***ng mind- and changed my life.

I opened PHC because there was nothing around where I live that could do this. No one offered Pilates in the way I had experienced it. And I wanted other people to feel like I feel. So I did that s**t myself. I had no idea how to run a business or be a Pilates instructor. I did the trainings, the practice and researched how to start a business. I opened in my house. It was a huge leap of faith. I bet on myself- and Pilates. I worked my ass off because I KNEW other people would feel what I felt if they got a chance to try Pilates.

When you trust us with your body and your feelings-we don’t take it lightly. We know what it took to get us where we are. We aren’t perfect. We are works in progress too. Some days suck. Some days you just keep moving forward. The important part is we keep trying- together. I am worth the effort. And so are you. 🖤

Can you easily get up off the floor? Can you lift and carry your dogs? Your kid? Do you trust your body to support you in an emergency of fight or flight?

We are living in unprecedented times. It is not safe for anyone- not our kids, our friends or our community. Are you physically capable? Do you feel like you could MOVE?

What we do as Pilates teachers here isn’t about the aesthetics of how you look. We teach to make your body stronger. More agile. Better balance. Flexible spine. Strong joints and legs to push you forward. Fall down and be able to pop back up. Able to throw your weight around with control and intention. That’s what we focus on at PHC.

Your body doesn’t just exist to look a certain way for you. That’s its least important role. What can your body DO? That’s what you should be focusing on.

Do not placate yourself that you won’t need to be capable of defending or protecting yourself or your loved ones. Look around. Mass shootings. Men in badges taking people away or just killing them in the streets. People are straight up killing each other- everywhere. Fights. Attacks. Violence. Racism. It’s nonstop. And escalating. I don’t know what to do or how to stop s**t as one person- so I just keep on making sure we are staying strong.