This week we focus on making you feel confident and strong with the kneeling exercises on the Reformer and related exercises from the Cadillac at our beautiful North Melbourne studio. Additionally, we travel deeper into the original mat list and continue to push your...
Spinal articulation in Pilates: purpose and properties To get the true benefits of the method (especially the ones people love to quote) The Movement Refinery follows the philosophy, principles and lessons of the original method and the some of the first generation...
Here’s a short anatomy lesson about your inner structure, read part two to take it into the studio. Your spine: Design and function Articulation is your ability to move your spine in smaller segments rather than big chunky blocks or as one piece. Our spine is...
Another brilliant week at our Pilates studio in North Melbourne where we looked to fortify your ‘short box’ series… a series that echoes the movement patterns of the ‘stomach massage’ series last week. Whereas in Stomach Massage the purpose is to provide lift...
Hello Pilates pals, Week four of our programme of your immersion into Classical Pilates, how are you feeling for it? Did you know that the Reformer we use today dates back to Joe’s Universal Reformer originally patented in the USA around 1927? He designed many...
Pilates history tidbit: Mr Pilates grew up in Germany, migrated to the UK to work as a boxing coach and vaudeville performer before being interned in a German national’s camp during WW1. He returned to Germany before deciding upon permanent migration to the...