I have a live journal blog for another thing I do and I'm liking live journal better. I can use it easier and it lets me put live links in, so here's my new address
http://samsarapilates.livejournal.com/
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Monday, March 10, 2008
Teaching matwork again
I am finally not burnt out on matwork anymore.
Yesterday I taught a workshop on the fundamentals of pilates and how they apply to the mat. It was such fun. I do love helping students be able to do anyone's pilates safely and effectively. And I was able to incorporate some of my more evolving ideas of abdominal support into how I taught it, so that was wonderful.
I've decided to run a pilates class during the summer in the mornings. I already have it half full. That rocks! I love to teach students over a consecutive period of time so I can really impart to them a deep pattern.
I feel like, all the studying of apparatus took my energy for awhile. I am ready to integrate matwork again into the rest of what I am doing.
Much is happening in my movement work outside of pilates too, and that is really great!
Yesterday I taught a workshop on the fundamentals of pilates and how they apply to the mat. It was such fun. I do love helping students be able to do anyone's pilates safely and effectively. And I was able to incorporate some of my more evolving ideas of abdominal support into how I taught it, so that was wonderful.
I've decided to run a pilates class during the summer in the mornings. I already have it half full. That rocks! I love to teach students over a consecutive period of time so I can really impart to them a deep pattern.
I feel like, all the studying of apparatus took my energy for awhile. I am ready to integrate matwork again into the rest of what I am doing.
Much is happening in my movement work outside of pilates too, and that is really great!
Monday, March 3, 2008
My somatic search...
I've decided I need to focus less on another Pilates teacher certification, and more on exploring somatic movement. I do love Pilates and it is so useful, but I do not want to imprint more fixed patterns on the body.
The more I learn and read about somatics, finding each body's unique movement pattern and breath, the more I want to keep following this idea.
I have never enjoyed doing an hour of straight pilates repertoire. I more enjoy seeing what my body needs each moment, each day, and using pilates and other methods for getting my body juicy and playful and easy, so I feel good and enlivened.
I've been reading some great somatic teachers ideas about not putting fixed patterns on a body. That connects more with what and how I already teach. I look at my student when they arrive, see where is restricted, how are they breathing, talk to them and find out how they are feeling physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and then I follow my instincts in giving them work. I almost always do footwork as I feel it is wonderful at releasing so much in all ways, mind and body. But then, instead of just going through the method exercises, I follow what seems like the natural thing to do. Sometimes it is rolling on the mat, or exploring breath, or walking around experimenting in the body, or playing with the spinal articulations. My ultimate goal is for my student to leave feeling wonderful and easy in their body, tensions slipped away, and for them to have energy for their life.
The more I learn and read about somatics, finding each body's unique movement pattern and breath, the more I want to keep following this idea.
I have never enjoyed doing an hour of straight pilates repertoire. I more enjoy seeing what my body needs each moment, each day, and using pilates and other methods for getting my body juicy and playful and easy, so I feel good and enlivened.
I've been reading some great somatic teachers ideas about not putting fixed patterns on a body. That connects more with what and how I already teach. I look at my student when they arrive, see where is restricted, how are they breathing, talk to them and find out how they are feeling physically, emotionally, mentally, spiritually, and then I follow my instincts in giving them work. I almost always do footwork as I feel it is wonderful at releasing so much in all ways, mind and body. But then, instead of just going through the method exercises, I follow what seems like the natural thing to do. Sometimes it is rolling on the mat, or exploring breath, or walking around experimenting in the body, or playing with the spinal articulations. My ultimate goal is for my student to leave feeling wonderful and easy in their body, tensions slipped away, and for them to have energy for their life.
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