Overuse Injuries

We are all prone to overuse injuries. My Pilates teaching career started at a physical therapy practice in 1990.  Majority of our clients were journalists suffering with Repetitive Stress Injuries due to overuse injuries on computers.  The typewriter offered some...

Anatomy Dances: How Understanding Space Changes your Practice

A suspension bridge is a phenomenal way of stretching steel as wires for strength.  Strength increases because a flexible bundle of steel wires are stronger than a solid steel bar.   We can do this with our bodies.  Finding counter tensions three dimensionally is a...

Embodied Anatomy Reformer: Hippiness to the Knee w. Lesley Powell

With both knees having ACL tears, keeping the physicality of my legs is essential.  I find that I need to slowly wake up the coordination of my legs and spine.  Closed chain movements are important.  How you organize your legs in standing is very different than open...