Many times beautiful flexible dancers lack the strength need to hold their bodies together- safely. An overly-flexible body is ripe for injuries , that de-rail dance careers and cause terrible life-long pain. Pilates can align and strengthen the body in good functional patterns. Old dance injuries can be corrected and the body balanced again.

Laurette Ryan PMA-CPT  When I have read Joseph Pilates “Return to Life through Contrology” what occurs to me is that he isn’t writing this for the skilled dancer or athlete. The text is pretty straight forward with his views and recommendations on wellness, health and his exercises. I have watched Pilates in my experience of [...]

Pilates, Fascia and alignment…. By Laurette Ryan PMA-CPT You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about the role of fascia in exercise. You may have heard it described as a webbing or net enveloping the body but that is just a small piece of the picture. We can go back to the very formation of [...]

  The “Real” Benefits of Pilates by Laurette Ryan www.balancepointpilates.com   Pilates, as we’ve all seen numerous times, has a laundry list of benefits. They range from the physical to the emotional and mental and at times the spiritual. Pilates teachers will espouse the toned muscles -especially fantastic abs or six-pack you will get by [...]

By-   Laurette Ryan , PMA-CPT Have you put your swimsuit on yet? Go on – get away from the computer…put it on and come on back… I’ll wait. Okay all set now. As you sit there in the bluish glow of your computer screen, how’s it all look? Your thighs, your tummy and that stuff [...]

By Laurette Ryan www.balancepointpilates.com Pilates has been for a while one of the hottest workouts around. I remember WHEN…before the media hype, before the celebrity endorsements, before it was a multi-million dollar industry. I remember when there were not 50 zillion “Pilates” “Certifications” out there. I remember getting a paper pattern and detailed instructions on [...]

Is Pilates Different? By Laurette Ryan www.balancepointpilates.com www.LauretteRyan.com Recently, I was engaged in one of those crazy online “discussions” where a person asked “So, what makes Pilates different from other forms of exercise?” And just like it goes, at times when you are online, I couldn’t tell whether the “asker” was under the impression that [...]

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entitled “Hottie Body-Humpilates”. I, like many if not most of you, got a good chuckle.

I would like this opportunity to respond to “Humpilates”. Part of me wishes Mr. Pilates himself were alive and could go on Mr. Kimmel’s TV program and teach him the Saw or Roll-over in his classical manner….

On the Ball With Lizbeth Garcia: Pilates Workout For Beginners demonstrates a workout routine that combines traditional pilates exercises with a stability ball, resulting in a fitness plan designed to tone and strengthen muscles, boost energy levels, and create a better sense of balance and centering. Duration : 0:3:58