Entries in Feet (2)
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Our semi-regular rundown of Pilates news from around the Web. Enjoy!
• Heads up, PMA members: The agenda for November’s Teacher Training Summit has been released.
• Kudos to Aida Zorilla, owner of Studio A: Pilates in San Antonio, for raising $26,000 for cancer research and being named Woman of the Year by her local Leukemia and Lymphoma Society chapter.
• This Washington, D.C. Pilates studio inside Mint Fitness maximized space and amped up its clients’ workouts with Pilates circuit-training.
• Here’s an excellent five-minute workout for happy feet, Pilates-style, from Elizabeth Larkam and the Chicago Tribune
• The South Korean military utilizes Pilates in its special-command training. Check out this great photo. Why, we wonder, are they all screaming?
• Here’s a post from About.com’s sex channel, called Pilates for Sex. It highlights the role of the pelvic floor, specifically the pubococcygeus muscle.
Amy Leibrock
in Feet, News/Research, PMA, cancer, pelvic floor, sex
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Pilates for Feet
By Madeline Black
Pilates has developed a reputation for building core strength, especially once the fitness and physical therapy worlds came to Pilates in the 1990s. But my history with early Pilates, studying in New York in the late ’80s, was always about the feet. Along the way, the core became the mantra of Pilates. I strongly feel the time has come to a focus on the feet again.
In Pilates, the feet are very important to the way we engage the body, and they deserve more attention. Feet bring to mind metaphors for moving us forward in life and finding our sense of place and existence in the world. Yet in our bodies, we pay little attention to them. We squish them into shoes, stand for long periods of time, walk on cement sidewalks. I live in the country, and we still do not pay attention to our feet here. If we did, we may lessen back issues, hip and knee pain, and release our necks.
Amy Leibrock
in Anatomy, Feet, Naja Cori, Teaching Strategies, talus
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