Category: “How to”: Pre-Pilates

A video tutorial teaching Dead Bug: a safe exercise that teaches us stability of both the shoulders and pelvis. It also helps to improve coordination of limbs.

“Swimming” exercise in Pilates strengthens your back muscles (extensor spinae), bum (glutes) and back of your legs (hamstrings). It also helps us to learn stabile alignment: keep the movement going though keeping your shoulders and pelvis quiet.

Helps practice balance and coordination and noticing oblique connections within the body in both the front and the back.

This video tutorial illustrates how muscles and fascia create long trains that run throughout the body in interconnected “trains”.

Correct postural imbalances caused by our modern lifestyles: from gyms to screens.  It goes a long way to counteracting our forward slumped posture that is so common these days.

Learn your side lying position because you’ll need to be comfortable with it for later exercises! You’ll develop spinal strength and mobility with these bananas!

This exercise can help you connect to your spinals and oblique abdominal muscles. The objective here is to increase spinal mobility, control and strength.

I love how this exercise proves that Pre-Pilates can be really difficult!  This will challenge everyone from the seasoned expert to the absolute beginner…

There is a whole lot going on in this exercise, but for now, let’s just think of this exercise as an exercise that promotes spinal flexibility and mobility.

This is a great stepping stone from “Pelvic Pushes” to maintain the start position for other more demanding exercises such as the Side Kick and  Side Bicycle!

This is a breathing exercise that increases breath capacity, lung volume and control. So, let’s stand, take our space for Ron’s Clock!

Use this exercise to find front and back alignment for side-lying exercises and learn to use the butt and shoulders to achieve stability.