New Program: Advanced Movement Principles with Lesley Powell September 27-28. Low Back March 28-30, 2025 Upper Body August 8-10, 2025 Lower Body Space Pilates – 36 W 20th st, 2nd Floor For more information: email me at movementsafoot@me.com Understanding the...
Excited to announce my new art gallery, Pictor Gallery that will be presenting my work. For more information about July’s Shows of my work. Click here Lesley A. Powell art website
June 3 at 2:15 PM we are going to explore Tuckeroonie vs Posterior Tilt in my online Embodied Anatomy Pilates Mat class. A lot of clients mistakenly initiate abdominal work of posterior tilt with their legs. You can see the muscles over engaged at the femoral fold...
A well-working engine requires all the parts moving well. This includes the concept of “spinal engine”. With my studies with my teachers: Jean Claude West, Feldenkrais, Bartenieff Fundamentals and Pilates, I have come to new ideas about working with the spine. We...
Muscular slings is a concept to describe the interconnected network of muscles and fascia in the body. These slings work together to produce movement and maintain stability. Muscular slings shifts our thinking about the body as parts, but to a new interconnectedness...
Anyone with a forward head and/or kyphotic posture, waking up the posterior sling is important. The posterior sling is important especially in walking. The phrasing of the posterior sling has a different quality from a prone swan to standing up. The coordination...