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intenSATI practice for November 2020

Welcome to your November intenSati series!

I am teaching intenSATI every Tuesday 6-7 pm in-person at my Roblin location inside the The Yoga Barre and on ZOOM every Thursday 11 am.

“Inten” is from intention and “sati” is the Pali word for mindfulness.It is a fun movement class, using some cardio, yoga, stretches and meditation, all with affirmations and fun music. You can even do it sitting in a chair.

This month’s series is about using the power of our thoughts and words to shape the life we want to live by flipping the script from fear to faith, from whining to wisdom, from worry to wisdom. I think the word “faith” can be a trigger word, as can the word “spiritual”, so you are welcome to add religious values to those meanings if it serves you. Faith is meant here as trusting your deepest connection to yourself and faith about the goodness of our world, about it all working out, not by chance but by choice!

Tony Robbins says, “it’s not your capacity, but your state, that determines your success” and it’s the reminder that the future we are imagining is giving us our state today. So, if we want a more prosperous, confident, alive state, we must first examine the language we are using in both our thoughts and our words.

Language shapes our life and we want to learn to flip the script from fear to faith. And that starts by choosing faith, affirming faith and taking actions from a faith-inspired state.

In this month’s intenSati, you’ll find a fun, cardio series that will help you reframe your challenges so that you can move from fear to faith. You’ll also find some challenging add-on’s to take your class to the next level, allowing you to find your edge. Additionally, there’s a lower body stretching sequence and closing meditation that will help seal all of this month’s work in.

Let’s exercise our power this month to choose what we think, say and do so that we can align with our purpose and passion. Join me to dance your crazies out and feel your happy inside! Text to register 204.999.9984.

ELDOA CLASSES every Tuesday 5-6 pm Nov 3-24, 2020 @ our Roblin location

ELDOA is a revolutionary stretching and strengthening technique for the spine and joints of the body. These exercises create space between every level of your spine, your hips and shoulders, to alleviate back pain and improve your overall posture.

Created by world-renowned Osteopath, Guy VOYER, DO, who founded the Montreal School of Osteopathy, the ELDOAs were created to target every level of your spine to create space and normalize the tension around each vertebrae. The result is postural normalization and a renewed strength and balance throughout your body.

The Benefits of ELDOA

ELDOA connects your body, mind and spirit through a series of techniques designed to have a calming effect on the nervous system.

When we stretch the fascia that surrounds all the muscles, organs and nerves in our body restrictions are freed and a calm, balanced feeling takes over. You feel revitalized with more energy, and your body feels aligned with a cleansing feeling in your deep body tissue.

You will find that this profound experience is a way of life – and not just an exercise method. Perhaps you’ll see it as meditation for your spine (especially if you can’t sit still). Within the action of an ELDOA you will find stillness – it’s profound and gets into every fibre in your body.

This month, the theme is Hacking into your old Habits. ELDOA is a profound stretching habit that will save you unnecessary pain, aches and discomfort so you enjoy your movement and performance, be it sitting at a desk, yoga or skiiing. An ELDOA stretching routine reduces the negative effects of the postural bad habits we do to our bodies.

All welcome. No previous experience necessary.All participants physically distanced. 4 week program starts Tues Nov 3 to Nov 24, 5-6 pm at our Roblin location inside The Yoga Barre. Sign up online at Pilates Manitoba or The Yoga Barre or text 204.999.9984

NEW ADDRESS

One door closed and two new ones opened. Classes and private lessons can be enjoyed at either one of our new locations.

836A Corydon Ave (the old Green Apple store), Winnipeg MB R3M 0Y2.Lots of parking in the back.

OR

202-6640 Roblin Blvd, Winnipeg MB R3R 2P9, inside The Yoga Barre.Lots of parking in front.

All Reformers are physically distanced.Room is limited to 5 people plus one instructor. You can wear a mask. All instructors and the Physiotherapists wear masks. Bring your own water, towel or mat to line your surface or roller with, bring your own mat or roller for floor based classes.

We also have ZOOM Virtual classes.

Call or text 204.999.9984 for memberships, info or signing-up for classes or private lessons. Studio phone is 204.487.2287. Email or catch us on every social media channel there is!

Open your Heart. Manage your Mind. Exercise your Body.

Embodied and evolving Mind-Body-Spirit Exercises and Education for Fitness or integrative medical treatment.

Happy International Pilates Day

Happy International Pilates Day! Pilates saved my life. We have been told so many times about its many exercise benefits.Did you know that Pilates is so powerful a technique that Pilates is an umbrella treatment under Physiotherapy in today’s current medical and insurance model. Pilates is the first Physiotherapy!

But, I was unemployed with no benefits and no extra money to go to any therapist of any kind when my husband died leaving me with a 2 year old son and pregnant with our second son (whom he never met). I needed more than stretching and calming. I needed reconnection and rebalance with my nervous systems (yes, you have two “different operational” ones). From my traumatic experience, stress makes our joints go slack. Stressful thoughts and feelings pulls the water out of our cells and organs. Stress makes us destabilize to the left side only (spiral line). If you feel tight or “stronger” on your right side it is only because it is trying to pull you back into alignment when you spiral to the left.

When I was grieving and living like the walking dead, I felt my joints stay slack and ache and hurt constantly, thus, no true inner stability and metaphorically, no standing tall, no getting up off my knees and no moving forward. My inside head, the surface of my brain, itched. I could not breath. I could not see straight. The tightness in my chest would not go away. This was more than just grief. I know now that it was my fascia stiffening, my brainstem and cells dehydrating and my nervous system not able to find clear consistent signals to my centre of gravity and joints, like a GPS. But back then, yoga and stretching was just making my joints more overstretched and there was no corresponding rebalance or reconnection because the neuro-muscular-skeletal re-patterning piece was missing. So, I started Pilates on my living room floor at 2 am when I could not sleep. The 100 kick-started my diaphragm. I taught myself some Pilates at home because it also made me think and feel and sense. It was active cognitive behaviour therapy in my body. I got stronger, physically and figuratively.

Pilates originally called his work Contrology and developed not just physiotherapy and manual therapy but a powerful ideology with pressurization of the joints system which is the key to all health…pressure..constantly adjusting, rebalancing and recalibrating pressure through the neuro-fascial system.

Thanks to Joseph Pilates for his everlasting gift. He was an innovator, inspiration and early influencer of integrative health that also has so many health economics efficiencies, especially in these challenging times. Be your own best therapist and return to trusting your own body!

By Annabel Scott, Owner of Pilates Manitoba Inc

#internationalpilatesday #selfcare #beyourowntherapist #breathing #anxiety #depression #mindbody #mentalhealth
#gratitude #trustyourbody #feelandfollowyourbreath #core

Virtual Classes and Free Resources

Virtual Classes to Stay Connected!

Thank you for your ongoing love and support of your Pilates community! We’re excited to announce a lineup of classes with some of your favourite instructors streaming live on our virtual platform using MINDBODY/ZOOM.  Simply sign in using MINDBODY and join us as we celebrate our health and keep our sanity.

SPECIAL PRICING
5 classes @ $50
1 class @  $10

 We are happy & honoured to continue to provide you with Pilates, MELT (cellular hydration and connective tissue fluidity), ELDOA (deep spinal stretching), FELDENKRAIS (somatic exercises for nervous system repair and core remodelling) and Rehab Pilates (for injuries, special & adaptive populations) that you know and love, albeit online. However, we are also working to ensure that our studio doors can re-open in the future. If you feel inclined to help us cover our fixed costs such as rent, and support your instructors through this time, you may choose to use up your existing class pass or buy any of our regular class packages at full price.

Please also enjoy any of the special deals we are offering and we encourage you to try a new kind of class.

 Please enjoy our free resources & classes on FB Live and  IGTV

Please make sure you LIKE the Pilates Manitoba FB page as well as ELDOA Winnipeg, Pilates Manitoba – Plus Size, and MELT Method Winnipeg pages

Also, please call or text anytime and we can Skype or Face Time for personal connection to answer any questions or review anything you have about your home practice. With all the uncertainty and for many of us, stress and anxiety, it is even more important to engage in activities that help us stay grounded, centred, breathing fully and resilient.

Our Virtual Schedule

Our schedule will be released in 2 week increments to allow us to collect feedback, troubleshoot any challenges and adjust accordingly with the needs of our Pilates Manitoba community. Please bear with us as we sort through the twists & turns of technology (confession time: I am truly a Luddite with a steep learning curve).

Unfortunately, not all instructors will be able to do virtual classes.


How to Access Livestream & Virtual Studio Class

Simply sign in using MINDBODY and schedule your classes as normal!
You’re in!  You will receive another email with a ZOOM link to join class virtually 30-60 minutes before your class. Or, let us know which classes you want and we can save you a spot

Please be sure to read the instructions you receive from both us and ZOOM to ensure you are prepared before your class starts, such as grabbing your mat, towel, water to sip, roller and any balls or other small props such as flexbands.

To ensure the most optimal live-streaming experience, you will need to download the ZOOM software before your first class. ZOOM is free and you can download it onto any device.  

DOWNLOAD ZOOM
*IMPORTANT*  Please ensure that the email on your Mindbody account is current and that you have selected to receive emails from us.  All communication regarding classes and Zoom links will be sent via email.  If you do not receive an email from Zoom after booking your class, please email us at info@pilatesmanitoba.com.


Not a current Pilates Manitoba member?

You can create a new account here and purchase any class or package.  You’re all set!

Have a question? Contact info@pilatesmanitoba.com. Your instructors at Pilates Manitoba, ELDOA Winnipeg and MELT Method at Pilates Manitoba are here and standing by your side every step of the way!

Practice Physical Distancing not Social Distancing

Our physical classes and lessons have stopped but not our community connections and love. We will have classes and lessons on Facebook so make sure to LIKE Pilates Manitoba and its other pages Pilates Manitoba-Plus Size, ELDOA Winnipeg and MELT Method Winnipeg.We will have classes on Zoom (check the schedule and they will be marked) or Facetime so please connect with us so we can get those set up for you.

TEXT 204.999.9984

CALL 204.487.2287

EMAIL info@pilatesmanitoba.com

And, please use this time to reflect, write, walk, & talk more with those you love or love the ones you’re with! And, we encourage you to try something new like an ELDOA class or MELT class or another instructor. We have kept the reservation system operational for resumption of classes as of Mon April 6 and can change that accordingly.

Mostly we send deepest gratitude to you all and our wonderful doctors, nurses, health care workers of many sorts, and our government leaders and civil servants who are working tirelessly for us all. We will not just get through this but will be even better, wiser, kinder, safer, and more grateful than before.

Imbalance in the Body

New York City-based trainer Tatiana Lampa, NASM, is a different kind of fitness expert. As a certified corrective exercise specialist, she prides herself on helping clients train with injury prevention at front of mind. And, a lot of times, she says that means identifying any muscle imbalance in the body that come along as her trainees get stronger and stronger. Then, making a plan of action for restoring balance.

Click to read more!