Cartwheels, Handstands, and Teaser during pregnancy!!

Cassie & Carey

I was super excited when Cassie sent me a note to tell me she had scheduled a session with me in a few weeks.  Cassie has been a student of mine for 6 plus years, including going through the fully comprehensive Pilates instructor training program with me and taking lessons with me throughout her entire first pregnancy.  Needless to say I feel pretty comfortable teaching Cassie.  Even though she’s moved across the state and I don’t teach her as often as I used to, I usually have no problem helping her fine tune her awesome Pilates practice.  As her instructor for so long I feel like I “know” her body pretty well and that always helps me.

This upcoming session is no different EXCEPT for the fact she will be 25 weeks pregnant and I’ve only taught her once pretty early on in her pregnancy.  The process of pregnancy is so amazing and so complex that it really challenges me as an instructor even when I’m seeing someone on a regular basis.  So I know that this week’s upcoming session will challenge me as an instructor to create a safe, appropriate workout for Cassie and maybe give her some ideas of things she can continue to “play” with from a movement perspective throughout her pregnancy.

Even though I haven’t been working with Cassie on a regular basis through her pregnancy I have been keeping up with her Pilates pregnancy journey on her weekly blog and it’s given me some ideas for our session.

“Sometimes I dream of doing handstands, cartwheels, and teasers. Never mind that I’ve never done a cartwheel in my life; I find myself daydreaming about them. It’s as if my body craves movement. “

As soon as I read the words above in Cassie’s blog I knew what our focus would be!  NOT handstands, cartwheels or teasers of course (that would be sooo unsafe!!)   Our focus will be finding safe movement that allows Cassie to feel movement throughout her body!  I remember that feeling. It’s the feeling of just wanting to move like you used to be able to move and not necessarily knowing how to do it in your changing body.  Luckily the Pilates method is the perfect tool for finding that safe, amazing, feel good movement in your body.

Be sure to check in next week to Cassie’s blog to find out a little more about what we did and how it felt!!

Cassie’s Current Pregnancy Blogs:

• Pilates and Pregnancy: 24 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 23 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 22 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 21 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 20 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 19 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 18 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 17 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 16 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 15 Weeks
• Pilates and Pregnancy: 14 Weeks

Cassie’s first pregnancy blogs (these are in reverse chronological order):

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