{"id":5616,"date":"2016-01-08T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T22:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=5616"},"modified":"2016-01-22T12:10:45","modified_gmt":"2016-01-22T12:10:45","slug":"the-start-of-something-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/the-start-of-something-new\/","title":{"rendered":"The Start of Something New"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have been blogging sporadically for years.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s been a sometimes on\/off thing, or when I arrived at an \u201caha moment\u201d or something exciting about a student to share.\u00a0 <\/span>This year, I am now living my 58th year of life and I know I am on the path I need to be running.\u00a0<\/span>Since I have been encouraging students and clients, as we approach the new\u00a0year to #MakeYourMagicHappen<\/strong> and #GetPilatesCentered<\/strong>\u00a0because #PilatesMakesYouMove<\/strong>, I am taking a dose of my own medicine to going one step further by\u00a0putting a stake in the ground with a new category to my blog as I capture the activities, people, places and work of my\u00a058th Year with Pilates. <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

It’s not a New Years resolution for me, but the new year always gives time to reflect on what daily activities we are or are not doing. \u00a0What things we may need to pay a little more attention to and which activities we can leave with yesterday’s trash.\u00a0 <\/span>I am truly not suggesting that\u00a0daily self-practice pictures will be taken and posted (I actually find it difficult to get my\u00a0work done on the body, when I am\u00a0worrying about what is or is not captured in the image or video) yet, I am planning write and visually blog about the activities each week. \u00a0<\/span>I’ll be connecting the dots and I looking for the “aha moments,” the magic of the circumstances, and the truth-telling in the eyes of myself and others.<\/p>\n

I have been pinching myself a lot lately when I realize that I am actually loving, learning and teaching Pilates as a way of living my life – while I run the business of helping others to love, learn and live in their bodies – with this beautiful method of movement. \u00a0 So, yes my \u201cself focused\u201d and \u201cself directed\u201d health & fitness training has a daily activity<\/strong><\/em> plan.\u00a0 <\/span>Pilates is a part of the week, but I won\u2019t lie, it has not been a part of every day.\u00a0 <\/span>I\u2019d like it to be.\u00a0 <\/span>Yet, life, business, schedules, clients and the necessity of sleep makes it a challenge.<\/p>\n

So, as my mind rolled around how to “make my magic happen” in the new year for me, I found myself enjoying the freedom of Kathy Grant\u2019s cat \"Screenstretch (as taught by Blossom Leilani Crawford ) on the mat and played with the moves creatively in my mind and body while mulling over the unfolding weeks ahead.\u00a0 <\/span>My client schedule was building to the point of almost overwhelming me to think about how would I ever fit a 60-90 session\u00a0for myself into every day\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>– whether it was blocked out on the calendar or not!<\/p>\n

With all that as a backdrop, Week 1<\/strong> unfolded fabulously.<\/p>\n

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