Level 2
Intermediate: as you progress from the beginner phase be ready for more advanced workouts. This phase is the one that can really build your body strong and healthy. This is the stage where you also get more tuned in with the wellness aspect and awareness of the different movement patterns.
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Foot-Fitness - 53 min
Open level - Pace: Slow
Explore with me our foundations to better access the whole body from a strengthening perspective and to achieve a better posture.
This will be a discovery of the infinite possibilities that we have access to when we pay attention to the feet!
Standing warm up of the ankle/... -
Hips & low back - 44 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
In this workout we go from segmental strengthening to myofascial stretching and ELDOA. At the end of the session, you will feel your pelvis stable and able to access ranges of motion that are usually challenging! You will feel free!
Exercises: G max reinforcement, roll an... -
Stay Away from the Hip Flexors Mat - 21 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Our lifestyle often has us deal with tight and sensitive hip flexors. The ilio-psoas is a very complicated/sophisticated muscle, its fascia is in contact with the femur (leg) the ilium (hip), the spine (vertebral body, transverse process and disc) and with all the organs ... -
MFS for too much sitting - 21 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Exactly, we all sit TOO much! Everyone. So… from now on we should put a little alarm clock every couple of hours and move! On a longer break do this quick session and your hip flexors and hunched back will thank you! -
The Teaser Breakdown - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Slow
The Pilates Teaser is often times misunderstood. Like the 100, it’s iconic for the method and it’s feared for its complexity of strength, flexibility and coordination. Come and break it down with me so that everything will make more sense and most importantly it will feel bet... -
Pilates Mat & Balance - 47 min
Level 2 - Pace: Fast
Join me in this intermediate/advanced Pilates Mat! The work on the floor will be made easier and more connected thanks to the work on the awareness and lower limbs warm up that we do in the very beginning standing up! Throughout the mat we play with the bicycle action that at... -
Int Mat with Magic Circle - 19 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
This intermediate mat is focusing on the work of the inner thighs and the midline of the body. The magic circle is mostly used inside the legs to trigger that deep activation all the way up to the pelvic floor. -
Quick Stretch - 8 min
Level 2 - Pace: slow
Stretching is very important, mostly after training or after running and playing sports. This is just a quick flow for when you have very little time, but you don’t want to skip it! -
The Ab Series (Romana's) - 3 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
In Joseph Pilates book we only find 2 exercises of what we today call the “abdominal series”: the single leg bent, and the double leg bent. Romana, seeing that people needed to strengthen the core added three exercises: the single straight leg, the double straight leg and... -
Hips & adductors - 9 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Quick and to the point! When you have 10 minutes, and you want to keep your hips in shape! The glute medius (outer hip) is opposite and synergic to the inner thigh muscles: that’s why this little combo is even more effective and powerful! -
Waist, hips and arms - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Perfect quick workout to get into waist, hips and arms when you have little time for it!
Accelerate the pace and the reps if you want to make it more intense, just make sure your form is proper and safe! -
Arms and posture - 9 min
Level 2 - Pace: Slow
Let’s tone the arms! In Pilates we usually work with very light weights… but the beauty of it is that as we work the arms, we also engage and control the whole postural alignment of the body making an exercise that might seem easy very challenging and intense! -
From the ground up - 27 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
This class starts with a deep and thorough foot warm up, barefoot first and with Rescue LOOP next. The following segmental strengthening workout takes care of all of the most important postural muscles: glutes, abs, serratus, rhomboids and some stretching to end this quic... -
Foot Focus Level 2 Workout A - 5 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Now you are more confident and experienced, and we can explore some new and more demanding exercises. Also, Level 2 workout A is part of the FOOT FOCUS program that develops over 9 weeks and that will help you increase the range of motion, strength and coordination of yo... -
FOOT Focus Level 2 Workout B - 6 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Now you are more confident and experienced, and we can explore some new and more demanding exercises. Also, Level 2 workout B is part of the FOOT FOCUS program that develops over 9 weeks and that will help you increase the range of motion, strength and coordination of you...
