Emerging from the first pandemic lockdown with fresh eyes, a renewed spirit, new living/moving space with the most thrilling, open view. I am filled with joy as I complete the finishing touches in the new movement space; #Pilates4FitnessAtTheSkyline. The second year of living in a masked world has given my work a new focus, renewed perspective and shift of attention that can and will occur in this space. Our collective activity in the new movement space will be focused on healing, centering and realignment.
Far too many lives have been lost, displaced and turned upside down. The mental and physical trauma caused by the pandemic won’t just go away quietly. The ongoing adjustment we all will continue to make, will give us reason to pause, re-think and re-assess our priorities; thus re-align our actions for healthier experiences together.
This quote caught my attention, “peak happiness lies mostly in collective activity.” Taken from an op-ed essay, by Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at Wharton, “There’s a Specific Kind of Joy We’ve Been Missing.” The premise is not new to myself or my health and fitness colleagues. We have built our businesses, lives and our living around helping others find joy and happiness in doing hard work, collectively as a group. We know the power and “the sense of energy and harmony people feel when they come together in a group around a shared purpose.”
“Care is most often practiced in what we bestow to or offer others, whether that be time, energy or material.”
“Peak happiness lies mostly in collective activity.”
It is what we do in all group settings; be it Pilates, Yoga, Tai Chi, baseball or adjusting to the new rules of a pandemic-lifestyle.
Our movements in our practice and our day-to-day community activity, will be necessarily more precise, deliberate, conscious and careful. The groups will be necessarily smaller. Collectively we proceed rather than singly, selfishly and out of synch or out of step with the overall community.
I am proud and honored to have built a renewed “living-room-movement-space” that can and will continue to support the health, healing, care and re-alignment of this beautiful, diverse and spirited community.
We are all collectively emerging and evolving from a place never experienced before.
We need each other.
The work may make you laugh a bit. I probably will make you sweat and swear more than usual; I know this work will make you find and feel the strength you have inside, and I know you will know at the outset, that I have your best interest in mind with every movement I ask of you.
Movement, Care, Centering & Realignment
Join me at the Skyline for the collective activity between us.
The work and the view are simply mind-blowing. 😉
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.