It’s Sunday morning, 9:31am and I have finished a hard-driving run, stretched and sweated and glistened through an hour alone, enjoyed my oatmeal breakfast, giggled at a few friends posts, commented on a colleague’s blog and on this rainy, cold mid-January morning, I am thinking about all the new faces, minds and bodies that have come into the studio in the past two weeks to learn to “resist to lighten and lift.”
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None have done so as a result of New Years resolutions, but all have done so because of a choice for a consistent challenge and change to their regimen and lifestyle. Some are healing injuries and were instructed to seek out Pilates as a training methodology.\u00a0 A few have walked away from other alternatives, studios or teachers; \u00a0 one or two are just curious and I am honored to be the choice of change.<\/p>\n
All of us are working and practicing to refine and improve our fight against gravity and the pull it has\u00a0on our bodies.<\/p>\n
I tell all my students, no matter what equipment or protocol being used, to “resist against gravity”, to “pull away from it”, to “resist against the down by lifting up and away.”<\/p>\n
My teaching mantra has become, “nothing we want is down.” Everything we work for in life is to be lifted.
\nLifted spirits, lifted eyelids, lifted cheeks, boobs and jowls. A lifted position, posture, gaze. A lifted and lightened load. A lifting experience vs one that is dragged down, loaded and heavy.<\/p>\n
It’s no wonder we feel so lifted and upright after a Pilates session! \u00a0Pilates training, exercises and movements are powerfully energizing for exactly that reason.\u00a0 The oppositional resistance away from gravity’s grounded pull<\/em><\/strong> on us is liberating and exhilarating. It is physical, mental and emotionally lifting work that can take every ounce and bead of sweat energy to make happen.<\/p>\n A favorite gravity-resisted Pilates move<\/strong> – on the mat, reformer or with the TRX in the Pilates4Fitness Movement Space, is the Pilates Teaser. The move “teases your mind, body and emotional spirit” as you fight the gravitational pull and resist to lift every thing up.<\/p>\n You can see and feel the\u00a0intensity and intention in the work below while Evelyn practices her new favorite move.<\/p>\n