A lot of the research in motor imagery supports that if you rehearse the movement before you do it, afterward it’s better. That is very interesting, but what about going further back even into the emotional aspect? What about working with the limbic system and how it affects all that movement and working directly at the endocrine and cellular level and doing imagery there. So instead of just looking at the results and then trying to find explanations, go directly into the tissue with imagery and see if that’s measurable. No one has ever done that, why not? Read More
Do You Really Understand Pelvic Floor Health?
Coming from where he (Kegel) identified squeezing these muscles, which led to improvement in stress urinary incontinence, we’re now fifty-plus years later still talking about Kegels. So I really call them a pelvic floor muscle exercise, because there are a lot more dynamics to it. Read More
Why “Exercises To Fix Back Pain” is a Headline to Avoid
Stop chasing the “magic exercises” and “magic recipe” of what to do with your clients who experience low back pain – it does not exist. One exercise can have a beneficial outcome for one person and a negative outcome for another. Read More
The Best Tools to Maximize Your Pilates Assessment
Advance your assessment skills with Brent Anderson! When assessing the Goal-Post, the client is asked to do three things: Stand up against the wall with their head against the wall, Bring the arms to 90/90, Bring the arms into a high “V” position.
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Assessing the Full Squat
How do we know what is important? How do we understand what we see?
Polestar Founder Brent Anderson walks you through assessing the full squat. Read More
The Best Teachers Teach in the Moment
How would you describe your presence in the Pilates Studio? Cheerful, affectionate, grounded, powerful, indulgent? I always find it amazing that two Pilates teachers can lead the same exercise, using similar cues, yet one of them leaves you feeling great and the other falls flat. This is the nuance that presence brings to a session.Read More
