PILATES
Pilates is a total body workout that focuses on initiating every movement from the center of your body and then spreads it to the limbs. This discipline originally called Contrology from its founder and our mentor Joseph Pilates (1880-1967), has been helping dancers, boxers, sports people, celebrities and countless others who have experienced this method correctly taught.
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Mat with Ankle Weights - 40 min
Level 3 - Pace: Moderate
Great challenge to add to our intermediate/advanced mat! Deepen into the work of the powerhouse by adding 1 or 2 lbs. to your ankles. -
Quick Abs with Chair L2
Level 2 – Pace: Fast
When you only have 5 minutes and want to get some quick abdominal work in, this is the sequence you need! It’s also great when you have lumbar issues, and you can’t articulate the lumbar spine! -
Airplane Board mix - 8 min
The Airplane board is an amazing tool and it's often forgotten! If you have access to a Cadillac try out this little sequence: it's not just about the one single exercise that we learn in the Certification Program, we can play with different movements before we get there. Great to strengthen the ...
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Fun Mat L3 - 18 min
Level 3 - Pace: Fast
This is a moving and fast paced mat! The exercises are mostly intermediate, but their variations and pace make them more advanced. Move through it safely with control and have fun! -
Lifting the Arch L1 - 6 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
The foot has a CORE, and we need to make it as strong as our abs. The vault of the foot sometimes collapses and puts our whole body in danger of compensation. With this quick sequence you’ll give the foot a boost of activation in just 6 min! -
Pilates Mat w/Towel - 28 min
Level 3 - Pace: Moderate
This is an intermediate/advanced mat that moves at a fast pace and is characterized by advanced variations of the exercises. Make sure to leave things out if they don’t suit your body. We’ll use the towel to support and challenge. Most importantly, by pulling the towel lo... -
Plank Mat - 29 min
Level 3 - Pace: Fast
This a fun and challenging Mat sequence where we refer back to the plank in different parts of it and also in different positions in place. Intense, it requires a good level of strength and some flexibility. Great when you are missing the reformer.
You can use a towel or the ... -
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 L1 - 17 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
Perfect for the Pilates newbies. Quick, simple but very effective for the body. Make sure you bring this feeling with you throughout the day… Find Pilates in everyday life activity: when you “roll up” in the morning, when you “stretch forward” to grab something and so on ... -
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. -
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... -
Mat with Rescue LOOP L1 - 11 min
Level 1 - Pace: Moderate
This is the perfect video to get familiar with the use of Rescue LOOP during the Pilates Mat. You will feel how the work deepens thanks to the spring resistance of the LOOP. Enjoy this extra stability and short sequence before you dive into longer and more advanced mat ro... -
Side Sit Ups - 2 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
Do you have access to a fully equipped Pilates studio? Side sit ups are great oblique strengthening exercises! -
The Wall L1 - 5 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
The Pilates wall is a great ending and the perfect place to develop an awareness for postural alignment. Get used to ending your session standing up! -
Rescue LOOP in Arms - 20 min
Level 3 - Pace: Moderate
Yes! You read it correctly! Rescue LOOP was created for the feet and to connect their positions to the legs and pelvis but… it can be very useful also placed around the hands or thumbs. In this intermediate mat we’ll play with different ways of utilizing the LOOP to conne... -
MAT with Ball - 30 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
Are you working out exclusively in your apt and you don’t have a spine corrector available?
In this class we have substituted the spine corrector with a slightly deflated small exercise ball: we’ll place it behind the back, under the pelvis and we’ll move it around to get... -
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 ... -
Pre-Pilates: get started! - 20 min
Level 1 - Pace: Slow
Pre-Pilates exercises give you the foundation that allows you to get stronger and progress. Once you learn the basic rules and you put your body in a good and proper starting position, every exercise will feel right and more doable.
All these exercises focus on stabilizing th... -
Int/Adv Mat With RL - 23 min
Level 3 - Pace: Moderate
Enjoy this intermediate Mat with some advanced exercises and variations.
Rescue LOOP will be added to both feet and hands to create support for some positions and also to challenge in other exercises.
Move through it and feel free to drop the LOOP if some variations are t... -
Push Thru Bar Mat - 33 min
Level 3 - Pace: moderate
The push thru bar is an amazing feature of the Cadillac: it allows us to stretch the body safely and deeper, supports and ensures that the body works evenly, it also facilitates the correct position of the body in exercises like the teaser where it teaches the students th... -
Safe Arching with Rescue LOOP - 13 min
Level 2 - Pace: Moderate
This quick progression will show you how a few targeted exercises, together with the use of Rescue LOOP, will help you to arch your back (in a swan for example) without feeling any pressure at the lower back: the correct spinal articulation, the ability to open up the hip... -
Mat with Arm Weights - 34 min
Level 3 – Pace: Fast
Can you believe that a 2-pound weight can make a difference?
Try it out and you will feel how the little weights sometimes will help and some other times will challenge your movements. Be aware to stabilize even more from the core to work safely. -
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... -
The 100: Abs Killing workout - 12 min
Open Level - Pace: moderate
Do you only have a few minutes, but you want to feel your abs and work them deep? This is perfect for you! The 100 and the abdominal series are iconic sections of the Pilates Mat and believe me, they get to the CORE in a deep and intense (good intense) way!
