| My Favorite 9-minute Pilates Escape Routine Principle: Efficiency |
| I just came back from a girls’ trip celebrating my close friend’s birthday. It felt like a great reset after the hustle of 2.5 months of back to routine after 2.5 months of summer. We had multiple conversations about the holidays coming soon and bringing us into another new year… and then it’s almost summer again. We will have the disruption of the normal routine as the holidays approach. For some, it’s joyful and welcomed, for others it’s overwhelming. Either way it hits for you, I hope this time can be a reminder to continually reset and recharge your body that we all expect so much from. The ripple effect of Pilates is profound. The repertoire and the principles together work physically and metaphorically to just simply make us feel good. Clarity in the body helps clarity in the mind. The practice of Pilates the body can become “free from nervous tension and over fatigue” and be a “well-balanced mind” capable of handling life’s problems. Being physically fit means we can do everyday tasks with ease: Physical Fitness is “the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure”. -Joseph Pilates Climbing the stairs, reaching in those high up spaces for the random once a year items, carrying out your holiday decor, reorganizing, cooking, baking, draining your bank account, shopping, breaking down Amazon boxes, carrying shopping bags from your local shops, preparing for guests, and travel could mean using your body in ways you aren’t used to. It could also mean a lack of time to enjoy your usual workouts. These are a few of my favorite Pilates mat exercises that create a concise workout that is balanced using the BASI Block system. With 5-10 reps of each it can be completed in 15 minutes. You can repeat it 2x through or add on to each block to make it more extensive. This workout can also be used as conditioning alongside another workout. Enjoy and remember to go with the flow. Love, Lynda |