Looking for the best gift for the holidays? The Tower Trainer is a versatile piece of Pilates apparatus that folds us for easy storage. It has a folding mat, the Pilates Barre, the Push Through Bar and all of the springs and straps of the Cadillac for $500 each. Ruth has a ZOOM class Thursdays 5-6 pm for this piece of equipment. We can deliver the apparatus to you within the city. With a very unique wintertime ahead of us as well as the holidays, now is a good time to get one of these… to stretch and strengthen you! Text 204.999.9984 to order one and arrange for delivery!
Well, I guess no one is surprised that we are being locked down for a second time and we are all ready to do our part. All in-person classes and appointments, except for the private appointments with the Physios (Physio can continue) will cease until further notice by the Provincial government starting tomorrow, Thursday November 12th.
Thankfully, our Zoom classes will give you an opportunity to continue with your Pilates practice from home in the meantime. If you do not own a Zoom pass at the moment, they are available in 5-packs ($78.75 GST incl) or in 10-packs ($157.50 GST incl)
If you do not see the class you want at a time you want, email me back and we will set something up to match your needs and goals. If you want to try a new class and need the props, let us know and we will get the prop to you, curbside delivery i.e MELT rollers, stability balls, flexbands
As well, we are renting out the Stability chairs and we are also selling the Tower Trainers we have left and there are Zoom classes for those too. It is going to be a long winter!
If you are not already on zoom, it is a free download on the device you want to use and I prefer laptop or tablet. Then, make sure you sign up in the class you want at least 30 min before class so the instructor sees your email to send the Zoom link to. When the email comes, make sure you click on it and follow the easy instructions it prompts. Make sure your video is on and that is an easy prompt too.
Your current in-person class pass will not expire so you can resume your classes once we re-open. Thanks for your understanding.
Pilates Manitoba is categorized as a PERSONAL SERVICE, not a gym or fitness facility. Thus, small REFORMER, MELT, ELDOA and intenSati classes are operating as usual with mandatory mask usage at all times, all cleaning and sanitizing protocols and tracing through automated Reformer/MELT/ELDOA/intenSati class reservations and attendance. And we always have great ZOOM classes too! It is important to stay connected and active for your physical and mental health, we are here for you…when you do stability and stretch work, your mind will also stay more stable and sane!
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 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
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! 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!
