Break up your workday with our Summer Lunch Series. 45 minutes of Pilates body shaping.

Mondays 12:00 - 12:45 PM Pilates Mat Level I
Tuesdays 12:00 - 12:45 PM Pilates Mat Express
Thursdays 12:00 - 12:45 PM Pilates Mat Express

Start your day off right with our new Wednesday morning equipment class with Judith Zimmer.
Reformer class Wednesdays 7:00 - 8:00 AM

Pilates Mat for Tennis
Date: June 27, 2007
TIme: 6:30 -7:30PM
Cost: $20.00

Pilates Clinic for Tennis
Date: July 21, 2007
Time: 1:00 - 3:00 PM
Cost: $40.00

Your walk is a reflection of how well or poorly your fitness is. A great gait has gentle movement of your entire body in a balance and coordinated fashion. If one body part is tight/rigid, it will affect the entire body.

A healthy gait is a reflection of trunk (core) control, coordination of your spine with your extremities especially your knee and ankle and good expenditure of energy so that you are not fatigued after just a half-mile walk. Improve your gait will enhance your balance, strength and injury prevention.

As a teacher, I observe my client's gait to get an idea of how they move their bodies. Especially with injuries, my client's walking can tell me a lot how they use their bodies. When a client has a knee injury, there are faculty patterns of movement in their walk. Their walking pattern can be making the knee injury worse.

See below for Workshop for teachers on gait and Hanna Somatics for everyone!

Hanna Somatics with Laura Gates
Saturdays 3:00 - 5:00 PM See below for dates.
Cost single 2 hr class $40, 5 class card $175, 10 class card $300.
6/9 "Fluid Forward Motion"
6/16 "Freeing the Body from the Center to the Periphery"
7/7, 7/21,7/28 "A Somatic Approach to Scoliosis"

Hometown: Hong Kong

Childhood ambition: To be a cop

First Pilates Class: It was an apparatus group class or the dance major students during my college years. However, I hated it and dropped the course after two classes.

Most influential teacher: Pilates - Lesley Powell;
Dance - Rosaline Newman

The defining moment when you realized you wanted to teach Pilates: When I realized I can do the crunch without hurting my back.

Favorite Exercise and Why: Roll up especially on foam roller - it is not only strengthening the core and increasing the flexibility of the spine, but also challenging the patience and consistency.

Most Challenging Part of Your Pilates Practice: The terminology of anatomy

Person who has inspired you the most: My aunt
Book you are currently reading: 'Letting Go Of The Person You Used To Be' by Lama Surya Das

Secret Comfort Foods: Cookies/peanuts butter crackers.

Cause you feel most passionate about: I like children a lot. So, I'm sponsoring a 7 years old boy from Guayas through Plan USA. If you can save some money for the seasonal closet clear up, you already can help many people (especially kids) to go to school, have clean water to drink everyday and improve their daily life gradually. It's just $24 per month. www.planusa.org Please check it out.

Your local retreat: Yoga

An Unfinished Dream: Have a home studio teaching Yoga and Pilates

Mandy received her Pilates certification through Physicalmind Institute and now teacher classes, Privates and Duets at Movements Afoot.

*PHYSICALMIND GAIT WORKSHOP with Lesley Powell.
Date: June 23-24, 2007
Time: Saturday 9:00 - 6:00 PM, Sunday 10:00 - 4:00 PM

This course was designed by Physical Therapist Marika Molnar. It is an overview of biomechanical aspects of gait with an emphasis on the interaction along the kinetic chain. In this course you will learn: How to improve the physical benefits of Pilates exercises. How to incorporate open and closed kinetic chain activities.How to observe faulty movement patterns and make corrections. How to achieve better balance when weight bearing. And more...

The next continuing education course for the PhysicalMind will be in 2008.

*Please call the PhysicalMind Institute for more information and registration: 1-800-505-1990, 212 -343-2150 or go to www.themethodpilates.com

FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY: PELVIC POWER AND PILATES
with Lesley Powell
Date: June 15, 2007 Friday
Time: 4:45-6:00 PM

Using Pilates equipment and functional anatomy this workshop focuses on the practical application of imagery techniques to increase the power, alignment and flexibility of the pelvis and pelvic floor.

PILATES TEACHER TRAINING PREP WORKSHOP
with Kimberly Fielding
Date: : June 11 - July 9, 2007 Mondays 10:15-11:45 AM
No class Fourth of July Holiday

Review and refine the fundamentals, essential and intermediate exercises on the Reformer and Cadillac. This course is for students who are preparing to take the Pilates equipment teacher training, or for new teachers who want to be more confident and enhance their teaching skills with the pilates equipment repertoire or for those who are interested in expanding their understanding of the equipment repertoire.

Upcoming Workshops - Save the date...

Deepening Your Pilates - Creating a 3 dimensional mat with flow! with Doris Pasteleur Hall
Date: July 14, 2007
Time: 3:00 - 6:00 PM
Cost $75

Explore the unlimited range of motion of all the joints through different levels of movement: flexion, extension, lateral flexion, and rotation by sequencing through supine, prone, side lying, quadraped, and sitting positions with flow.

Dr. Martha Eddy and Lesley Powell collaborate to address questions about the body, teaching, and problem solving with clients, in their Blog: Movement Addicts

SOMATIC FITNESS CERTIFICATION
Bringing the BodyMind to Fitness

CONTINUING EDUCATION/SOMATIC EDUCATION for Fitness Professionals

Enhance your fitness training through:

• Safe Body Mechanics for the trainer
• Exciting body/mind cueing techniques
• Applying neuro-muscular research

To start
One can do this diagonal stretch on the floor or standing. Have your body stretched out to a large "X"

LEVEL I diagonal stretch

The movement

1.Reach the left hand across the body to the right hand

2.The reach of your hand will pull you into a twist

3.Hold the position of rotation, breathe and length hands away from your feet

4.Return by reaching your same leg as hand into the floor.

5. Let the body unroll into the "X" position

A healthy walk and run needs this kind of rotation. The rotation brings ease of motion and balance of being on one leg at a time.