Breath

B R E A T H
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A tool.

A new arrival.

A foundation of Pilates movement.

We are powered by breathing. On average, as I understand it, the process of breathing is repeated somewhere between 17,000 - 30,000 times per day. According to the @lungassociation, we breathe 12 to 15 times PER MINUTE!

Fundamental #Pilates principles teach us how to dynamically stabilize the rib cage by virtue of deep abdominal engagement and intercostal, posterior/lateral breathing.

With this ingenious, 3-dimensional breath awareness, we inflate and deflate, inhale and exhale, to cultivate ample expansion, redirecting the inspiration (inhale) into the side and back body.

This approach protects the spine through a supportive, corset-like engagement, enhancing our sense of lengthening in the spinal column, hollowing and firing the abdominals as the front ribs knit together to deeply engage the core through exhalation.

Awareness. Coordination. Connection.

Every system in the body relies on oxygen. Healthy #breathing enables us to:
🫁 sleep better
🫁 boost the body’s immune response & function
🫁 digest food more efficiently
🫁 reduce stress & hone a greater sense of mental clarity
🫁 relish in that rejuvenating sensation that a full, deep breath delivers

Your Pilates breath is your first abdominal exercise of class. Next time you walk onto the mat, face a stressful situation, or just simply need an opportunity to re-center and quiet the noise, take a moment to ground in breath.

Close your eyes and imagine you could follow the breath’s lead as it travels throughout the body like a maze below the skin. Send with it vitality, grace, energy, love. Breathe space into the bones, muscles, joints. Be reborn.

A restored sense of peace while awakening the center — a calibration, a balance, a renewal.

A beautiful way to begin, …and begin, again.