Ugly Duckling Pilates Toronto
Marie-Jose Blom RETURNS to Toronto!!
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Ugly Duckling Pilates is delighted to present Marie-José Blom for two workshops over three days (friday may 4th to sunday may 6th) in lovely downtown Toronto, Canada. [scroll down for workshop description and printable pdf poster] Marie-José Blom has been combining Pilates technique and dance medicine for well over twenty years. Her mission statement is “the implementation of movement sciences elevating Pilates into the twenty-first century.” Marie-José Blom pioneered and founded her comprehensive Teacher Training courses as [...]
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perception
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wow i could go a lot of places with a title like that! . a long time ago; approximately forty two seconds after i started teaching, i took a workshop with an elder by the name of ron fletcher. mr. fletcher is ninety years old now so he would have been something 82 at the time and he was suffering from neuralgia or something similar (bear with me, it was seven or eight years ago) [...]
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evolution
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the last couple of tuesday evenings i’ve taught some “old school” mat classes. this doesn’t mean i think they’re old fashioned, it’s just that i haven’t taught a class this way in quite some time. well except for that one i taught in a mall for something like two hundred participants and a women’s shelter. man that was fun and also energizing for my soul. but in my studio, of late, there have been teeny [...]
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i was going to write a post
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but i decided to go for a bike ride instead… you should too.
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things i know to be true
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i wrote this in february of 2006 and a friend of mine said that people should print it out and put it on their fridge… so here it is again with a few bits removed or edited for context: . .rainbows are always worth staring at .lying is never okay (will consider amnesty for customs and bad haircuts) .harriet makes the stinkiest poo ever (sometimes mouse does too) .cat purrings are good for the soul [...]
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accidente!
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okay, y’all are asking about my accident. i was waiting until i scanned in some photos from just before i started pilates so you guys could see the difference but i can do that some other time. three people have asked me in the last maybe ten days which implies that it’s time.
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captain kirk i presume?
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i have this thing that i do when i teach, where i talk about star trek because almost everyone on earth has seen something regarding original star trek. sort of like how i haven’t seen logan’s run but i know the punch line because it’s referenced in tons of popular culture. anyway, i have this habit of saying things like:
“okay so your pelvic floor is captain kirk and your hamstrings all the way into your arches are mister spock and your quads are the red shirted ensign that everyone knows is going to die before the first commercial break!”
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we’ve stopped
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this post was actually written by dr. brian dower, chiropractor who works out of park road healing arts. since i found myself nodding in agreement through the entire read i asked permission to post it here and he was kind enough to grant it. *** We’ve stopped. As a species, we’ve stopped moving. Over the last few centuries, we’ve stopped spending days in the fields, planting and farming. We’ve stopped walking for hours to get [...]
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and i say pardon?
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lately i have been returning from a period of being remiss with my own workouts; this happens on occasion and doesn’t worry my overly much as long as the breaks aren’t too long. in this case the return after the holidays just wasn’t quite happening and it turns out that this particular break was amazing.
i got inspired, randomly, one saturday morning when my last client had unexpectedly cancelled; so i worked out by myself. it was delicious, i did a pile of my old homework and some simple and yet deeply satisfying things like footwork on the reformer….
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pilates goals
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It’s not too late to get back to your News Years resolution about improving your health. In fact the majority of people have put off their resolutions or never got them started or kind of started but then stopped. Welcome to mid-February. It’s a month so ugly spelling it is difficult and requires a day of love and family to get through. I didn’t bother making resolutions in January. Never do. Because it’s the worst time to seek change. The holidays and their after effects will get in the way.
Our first pilates class of 2011…brutal. The first Monday in January no less! We even joked about how if this had been someone’s beginner pilates class based on a resolution they would have really struggled. Maybe even given up. Our small group, including instructor Angela Barsotti, moaned and groaned through our routines….
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