Wednesday, August 24, 2011

BalleCore BARRE PILATES - What is it?

How is BalleCore BARRE PILATES® different from other popular ‘barre’ programs? 

•    BalleCore BARRE PILATES® is the original and only barre program that is purely Pilates-based and uses the patented BalleCore Barre created by Molly Weeks.
•    BalleCore BARRE PILATES® sessions are not scripted, corporate classes.  Using the BARRE PILATES exercise guidelines, instructors use their own training, creativity and ingenuity to design their classes for their students and clients
•    A certified BalleCore BARRE PILATES® instructor is first a fully certified Pilates Mat instructor (in accordance with standards set by the Pilates Method Alliance), who has been trained in all protocols to safely and effectively interpret Pilates exercises with the BalleCore Barre.
•    Certified BalleCore BARRE PILATES® instructors have had to test out with BalleCore, LLC in order to call themselves BARRE PILATES instructors.
•    Look for the BalleCore, LLC seal on all BalleCore BARRE PILATES® Certificates to verify their qualifications.  See Teacher Training information at Playhouse Pilates and nationwide links.
© 2011 Charlyn d’Anconia.  All Rights Reserved

Walk-N-Roll Pilates Workshop

Saturday's Walk-N-Roll Pilates Workshop was truly amazing - if I do say so myself!  To see someone's posture transform in a matter of minutes and actually help them sustain it.  I saw my client Barb on Monday and was astounded that she was still more upright than usual - a woman in her sixties who came to me with severe postural issues, back pain, knee and ankle pain - and she can maintain it without discomfort! It is so worthwhile to teach this work and to know that she now has another layer of understanding and core body knowledge as to how walking is healing.    This is one of the most challenging things to accomplish in my practice: Teaching - and being the best example I can be of - the fact that self-care, healing and sustaining the body are where any 'exercise regimen' should lead us.  If we are tearing up our knees, wearing down our joints, tightening and stiffening up our muscles and backs, the body is less and less able to sustain itself the way it is ingeniously able to do.   The breathing-walking connection was what she found most effective in continuing to build her posture with little effort, doing something she does all day anyway, walk!   Thanks again to Walk-N-Roll Pilates Workshop co-creator, Lisa Bloomquist, for making it so fun and always teaching something in a fresh way!!   
© 2011 Charlyn d’Anconia.  All Rights Reserved

Sunday, August 7, 2011

YAMUNA FACE MASSAGE


Yesterday I hosted a small Yamuna Face Saver Workshop and following it I had a Duo scheduled. It turned out that a woman in the workshop, Sharon, knew, Terrie, one of the women in the Duo.  Terrie was bowled over at seeing Sharon's post workshop fresh, rested and 'wrinkle free' face!  Apparently the two had been out late the night before and let's just say she fully expected Sharon to look like she had!  Well indeed, the dark circles and puffy eyes that came in the door with her did not go out with her!  Sharon was excited not only about how she looked, but how she felt - enlivened and ready for the day.  Not just another wrinkle treatment indeed!  More on this and acupressure facial points in the next post...!

Tuesday, August 2, 2011

BalleCore BARRE PILATES

Amazing that it has been since May that I last posted something here!  Busy.  The business of setting up an out of State BARRE PILATES teacher training was filled with missteps and totally unnecessary bureaucratic twists and turns reminding me of how much corporate structures can muck up a simple, elegant idea!  At last I got to the training and had a great group of instructors who really seemed to embrace the unique BalleCore Barre and BARRE PILATES program and we could finally enjoy the process of the workshop! 

Though it seems like it should be straight forward, it is actually a fragile process where we all come together hoping we'll get what we came for!!  And in my case, that I will be able to give what I came to deliver in an accessible way!  I fully enjoy this work and the transformative potential it offers people, particularly women, for their posture, balance and sense of connection to their core.  Let's face it, once we have THAT so many things, literally, click into place...