The Pilates Double Leg Kick is kind of like the Swan put together!  Just like in the One Leg Kick you are trying to stabilize your body and specifically your hips as you do 3 snap-kicks toward your buttocks.  Then lift into your swan with hands either clasped behind you or stretched long beside […]

The One Leg Kick exercise is another one of those Pilates exercises that seems pretty simple.  You just lay on your belly propped up on you elbows (kind of like when you were a kid watching cartoons) and try to kick your butt with your foot right? If you find this exercise easy or maybe […]

The Pilates Swan and Swan Dive exercises are the first extension exercises in the Pilates mat order.  In previous exercises we lay on our backs and curl the spine forward off the mat rolling through our spine vertebrae by vertebrae.  You can think of swan as a reverse roll up.  We are still trying to […]