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The link between memory and music is fascinating.  Recent studies have found music activates three regions of your brain: auditory, motor, and limbic.  These regions of the brain hear it (auditory), feel its rhythm (motor), and connect it to emotion (limbic).  Music allows us to reminisce.  Road trips would not be the same without music; and depending on who you travel with the playlist will be different.  Recently, I traveled with women in my family and our playlist was music we had grown up listening to.  All the words were still in our heads, we sang our hearts out, and each song trigger

I have had a number of conversations in recent weeks concerning the Pelvic Floor.  What is it?  Does it matter?  The core is the powerhouse, or the band of muscles that circle the body.  Imagine your body is a powerhouse:  the diaphragm is the roof; the abdominals the front; back, hip and glutes the back side; and the pelvic floor is the foundation.  Any realtor will tell you – if there are issues with the foundation of a home, they must be repaired.  The same goes for your pelvic floor. 

In the Pilates group classroom I often feel a few essentials get looked over.  I have tried to consider and cue for each of these critical pieces of the Pilates puzzle; though, oftentimes I feel my members would benefit from a one-on-one setting to properly address the individual needs among the sea of men and women I see each week.  I’ve gone so far as to hand out a flyer with these Principles and tried once to briefly outline the details on a white board.  I believe these Six Principles of Pilates are equally important and hold like value:

“The art of Contrology proves that the only real guide to your true age lies not in years or how you THINK you feel but as you ACTUALLY are as infallibly indicated by the degree of natural and normal flexibility enjoyed by your spine throughout life.  If your spine is inflexibly stiff at age 30, you are old; if it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.”  - Joseph H. Pilates