My Body Feels Great- Pilates as DIY Massage and a Metaphor for Healing Emotional Wounds |
As someone who has been through cancer surgery and three years of physical therapy, I've experienced a feeling that my body had betrayed me, a loss of control. Often when people are injured this...
Posted by on Tue, 27 May 2008 18:23:00 GMT |
Love Your Fat Don't Hate the Skinny Girl |
So often in our culture fat is labeled as the enemy. Sure recent diet trends, including books like French Women Don't Get Fat have at least steered away from the notion of fat in our food as bad. An...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:46:00 GMT |
Puritanism and The Pelvic Floor |
The pelvic floor is an important area and is supposed to be consciously activated in most pilates exercises. The pelvic floor is the triangular series of muscles between the pubic bone and the t...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 11:15:00 GMT |
Am I Perfect Naked? Stripping Away Perfection to Reveal Beauty |
"You have the perfect body." I admit I love it when the women in my classes tell me that. But I hate that word, "perfect,"...
Posted by on Sat, 31 Mar 2007 07:00:00 GMT |
