Do you have five minutes to assess and fix your pelvis? Do this work out before you get on the mat or reformer. It wakes up the pelvis and makes you more aware of your feet below!

INTRO to ELDOA #4: Neck and shoulders
In class #4 we’ll review the basic rules and focus on the neck and shoulder area of the body.

Plantar Fasciitis is a very common and painful condition. It affects runners the most but can also occur when we walk on a hard surface, when we wear tight shoes, high heels and so on. Stretching is important but to be effective we need to address the whole leg and foot. We also need to work the ...

Join Ilaria for a focused Reformer session exploring the “endings” — the final sequences that bring structure and closure to your workout. This class walks you through endings at three levels: beginner, intermediate, and advanced.
Each variation builds progressively in complexity and coordination...

Join Ilaria in this focused session on the Compass Rose, a breathing sequence designed to awaken and rebalance the diaphragm. In the FEET-NESS™ Membership you’ll find many classes where the diaphragm is stretched or reinforced, because this hidden muscle plays a crucial role in posture, pelvic fl...

In this session, Ilaria teams up with Danielle O’Connell to take a closer look at the rhomboids through the classic Butterfly exercise. This movement is essential for improving posture and maintaining a strong gravity line, but it’s also one of the most challenging to master. Tightness in the che...

In this video, Ilaria is joined by Danielle O’Connell to demonstrate her typical first session with a client. Instead of a full hour-long assessment, this workout uses carefully chosen exercises that reveal key insights about posture, strength, flexibility, and body awareness. You’ll see how subt...

The meeting focused on the Kidney GPS
Also, Ilaria announced a new summer training challenge starting July 1st and ending July 27th, featuring daily workout suggestions and a weekly live session. The challenge will focus on different themes each week, including movement and energy, hydration and ...

The meeting focused on scapular awareness and movement, with Ilaria presenting an anatomy lesson and demonstrating practice videos to address common issues like rotator cuff tears and inflammation. The discussion covered various exercises and modifications using equipment like the Cadillac, with ...

Open Level
Join Ilaria Cavagna for a quick but powerful barefoot foot workout that blends seated and standing exercises using the Rescue LOOP and the textured Naboso mat.
This session goes beyond movement—it's about neurosensory activation. The Naboso mat enhances sensory stimulation through the ...

Open level
In this focused session, Ilaria Cavagna guides you through Global Dynamic Normalization (GDN) techniques targeting the scapula and its key relationships: with the cervical spine, humerus, and ribcage.
Explore how different postures and subtle movement strategies can restore mobility, i...

Great discussion regarding some workout videos and suggestions for the future

Join Ilaria as she explores an unconventional GDN exercise for sciatic relief. This approach is not for the acute phase of sciatic inflammation but serves as a gradual progression for the later stages of recovery. Designed to ease discomfort and test mobility, this exercise carefully avoids aggra...

In this meeting we talked about GDN and the importance of moving the body in different ways!

In this session, we’re diving deeper into the SAW, a classic Pilates exercise. The SAW is a powerful movement that focuses on pelvic stability and spinal articulation, making it an excellent tool for understanding and improving complex functional movements.
In this video, we break down the key co...

Open Level
Do you know that strengthening your toes prevents falls? In this video we'll see how we can do that with simple but targeted exercises that you can incorporate in your own workout routine.

In this video, we'll explore a myo-fascial stretching technique for the obturator internus, focusing on modifications to protect your knee. I'll guide you through each step, ensuring that you can effectively stretch the muscle while maintaining knee alignment and safety.

Reinforcement and stretching for the pelvic floor are two important aspects of the work but the coordination of the work of the pelvic floor with other key muscles like adductors, glutes, diaphragm and transverses abdomini is even more important.

This is a very challenging exercise although it's included in the beginner sequence.
Difficult to execute correctly when the range of motion is limited by tight hamstrings but also because of the difficulty to stabilize the rest of the body while the leg is moving. I'll give you a couple of prog...

Note from the founder:

I’ve been focusing on this important part of our body since 2016 when I started creating a method of exercises that makes it easier for everyone to take care of the foundations and include the feet in the workout. This method of exercises is supported by Rescue LOOP™, a ti...

Dive into the intricate web of the ilio-psoas fascia, a crucial component intertwining with various joints within the lumbo-pelvic complex and abdominal cavity's internal organs. Discover how disruptions in this fascia can reverberate across the body, affecting numerous structures and functions.

In this meeting we went over February's material and we also talked about two main topics:
The exercise of Detorsion of the Fascia Iliaca (Fascia of the Psoas complex)
How to stay accountable on our own workout so that we do what our body needs, we challenge our body and (in case of instructors) ...

Open Level - Pace: Moderate
This is the perfect warm up for the pelvis. We’ll warm up all the joints of the body but the pelvis more in depth