I often get asked about how I got involved with Pilates. So I thought you would enjoy reading about my humble beginnings. I grew up in rural Queensland and moved to Sydney at age 15 where I began my full-time ballet journey with Marilyn Jones and Garth Welch. I danced...
Your brain is a gift of life and how you feed your brain can then mirror your path of successes. The brain continues to grow through your life especially when we give it new things to learn, goals to go after or ask it to change a preconceived idea. Lou Tice said “All...
Why your spine needs to move. Think of the structure of your spine as if it has the mobility of a slinky (the toy), and the pliability of plasticine. Joseph Pilates is quoted as saying “you are only as young as your spine is flexible”. Your spine is the centre of your...
The knee is a hinge joint but we tend to ask so much more of it than it is bio mechanically made for. As a hinge joint it is meant to flex and extend however we accidentally ask it to twist and turn when we develop poor posture or have an unforeseen trip up a stair,...
Turn out is essential for dancers especially ballet and contemporary genres. Turn out is asking the ball and socket joint of the hip to externally rotate to its maximum potential and then place movement and load into that scenario. Therefore, the dancers not only need... 