It’s summer and I’m finding my weekly long bike ride is really improving not only my overall health but also my movement patterns and the balance in my body!  The last few weeks I’ve noticed a few things going on in my body.  The first was that my left quad muscles were very very sore […]

Have you heard of “Barre” Workouts?   There’s all kinds of workouts with “barre” in the name of the class at every gym and in the exercise DVD section of Amazon — but the only connection that I knew about was the barre is used in ballet lessons.     So what’s the class about and […]

One of the things that originally drew me to Pilates was the science of it.  You see I was an engineer before teaching Pilates and my brain often thinks very logically and using reason.  I have spent a lot of time over the years learning about why we do exercises, what muscles we use and […]