Friday I leave for Long Beach, California to attend the Smart Spine certification over the weekend at Long Beach Dance Conditioning with Marie-Jose Blom-Lawrence. I am really looking forward to it.
Last summer I took a Smart Spine workshop at the Balanced Body conference in LA. I really loved the product and brought it home with me. My clients loved it too.
I did a mat class on it. I love the matwork, and I guess you could say I sort of specialize in it to some extent, as I really love studying it. I have to say, I have never had such a good mat workout ever, than I have on the SS. I learned I was doing something extra with my back in the matwork that I couldn't do on the SS. After that class in LA I was sore in very good, healing ways, and my body felt amazing. I am almost always in some degree of pain in my body, particularly my back from injuries in figure skating. The work on the SS is very healing and helped me find even more balance in my body, which is what I need to stay fluid and mobile.
I really can use the SS in many ways for my own body, but I am still working at finding ways to read my client's needs with the prop, so that I can most benefit them. I can't wait to explore the work on the apparatus and mat more deeply.
I also love the SS so much I want to do certifications for the prop here. I think it is brilliant for not only doing full work on, but especially the fundamentals of pilates on. I am in love with Eve Gentry's Fundamentals, and Marie-Jose is equally as passionate as Eve was about these pre-pilates movements. I think they are more healing than just doing full repertoire. If you can really feel the fundamentals you can get your mind/body connected to many of the more choreographed pilates repertoire and get something deeper from them than just being able to do choreography. Can we find healing in both mind and body in big choreography? I think, yes, if we are mindful and learn and study the smaller movements in our bodies.
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