Couple of decisions were made this week. I decided to stop drinking wine the day after my “all-girls hangout” that forced me to look critically at the volume of my intake each night. The wine was going down like water. Since I am intent on holding myself to a daily regimen of Pilates, health and clean eating, these two paths were simply out of synch. So I decided to stop drinking wine on Monday, February 22nd.
Mentally preparing for Part 2 of Blossom’s workshop, I laid on my mat early this morning with the intention of doing the entire advanced mat workout in a slow and deliberate pace. Slow and methodical. Deliberate and conscious. Lying in deep to the muscle so that the breath moves me – rather than rushing through the series to have finished the work for the sake of finishing.
Slow – because I wanted to feel every inch. Methodical – because Pilates is just that; a precise, methodical practice of movement. Deliberate and conscious – because frankly, its the only way to move.
In the middle of Open Leg Rocker, I decided that I would participate in the MarchMatness2016 social media blitz and do it all with video. That would change the experience for me, keep it fresh and give me a creative outlet to participate. As it turns out, I started my IG account only so that I could participate in #MarchMatness2015. I’ve built fabulous new social media relationships with the account, as a result, by following and enjoying other teachers globally last year through the campaign. It was blast and I was going to sit it out this year. Up until this morning.
I decided I might as well take it all the way and do it with video! A few of my private session students are traveling during the month, leaving me a few extra hours to “work and play” while I use my energy during the month to “clean up my act” (i.e., no wine or alcohol). So I’m in! I may as well go all out!
Lastly, I was very moved and inspired by the fluid, beautiful #KathyGrant’s “cat-inspired” movements of a fellow sister-teacher from West Africa.
Those are the stakes. Hammered into the ground. I said it out loud. Now it happens.
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Gina Jackson, is a classically trained Pilates Teacher and has been teaching along the Gold Coast of Hudson and Bergen County, NJ for the past fifteen+ years.
Certified by Power Pilates of New York, Gina has trained with Master Teachers Bob Liekens, Susan Moran and Brett Howard; loved workshop training with Cary Regan and Blossom Leilani-Crawford and has particularly enjoyed listening to the personal stories as told by Pilates Elders, Kathy Grant and Lolita San Miguel.
An active teacher and blogger, Gina manages a private personal training business supporting a myriad of clients, teaching all to honor their health, strength and life with the principles of Pilates at its core.