As a pilates teacher, you are aware that having a strong and healthy pelvic floor is crucial for both men and women. However, you may not realise that flat feet, or fallen arches, can have a direct impact on pelvic floor tone. The arches of the feet provide a neuro feedback [...]
Do you suffer from endometriosis? Are you interested in natural solutions that have been proven to help women with this condition reduce their pain and discomfort? If so, you’ll be excited to learn about the benefits peppermint essential oil has for toning your vagus nerve. Studies have revealed that it can [...]
FROM THE FEET TO THE PELVIC FLOOR Understanding the relationship between the feet and the core can improve any teachers ability to teach for the individual and while feet come in many shapes and sizes, there are some common structural presentations that can inform the teacher without intruding on the students [...]
It may be common but it's not normal At my women's retreat, one topic that is often spoken about is women who wake up around three o'clock in the morning every single night and they just can't figure out what's going wrong. Now, there's a few things that could be happening, [...]
A woman with a voice, is by definition, a strong woman Bleeding inconvenience Have you ever met a woman who celebrated her bleeding cycles? Me neither But I've known plenty of women (myself included) who used contraceptive pills to avoid the dreaded bleed. We are taught early on in life that [...]
The hormonal diaries Part 1 This article is the first in a series of articles you will find here that are focussed on hormonal health. It is a topic that I have become more invested in, traversing towards menopause as a 40 something woman. Sparked by my own journey of learning [...]
“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!” ― Roald Dahl Learning to to move well Do you ever feel like you are taking one step forwards, followed by two steps back? Or maybe you stumble over [...]
We forget that the water cycle and the life cycle are one - Jacques Yves Cousteau Do you ever feel like you were born in the wrong era? Looking down the supermarket isles do you see any food options or do you see brightly packaged goods that will eventually kill us? [...]
And when to say no to alcohol… Let’s say you fall over and fracture a bone or ‘pull’ a muscle. Your body is sore and tender and you don’t want to put any weight on it – an indication of the area being inflamed. The experience sucked (no doubt) so you [...]
Is it possible to identify with your pain so intimately that it becomes a part of your identity? What would happen if you didn’t have the pain, the discomfort or the disease? Would you still be you? Have you become so deeply interwoven into your experience that you actually would not [...]