And I'm hooked!

I just had the pleasure of trying out my first gyrotonics class in NE Portland and I am in love. Like Pilates, this system was invented by an individual who came from a movement background and started to develop his own unique system of exercises. I found it both invigorating and pleasurable. Check out http://centergyrotonic.com/ and begin your own journey.

Gym deal

One good thing about the economy is that businesses are really trying to help their customers out. Right now until April 5th the South West Community Center is having a special on their annual memberships! Yay! A whole 10 percent off and I believe you can still pay month to month. What a sweet deal. ☺

Honestly I don’t know why I read trashy magazines. Mostly I guess I like to zone out a little while I’m doing cardio or just having a lazy Monday (that’s equivalent of my Sunday) and I don’t want to think too much. The other day though I caught myself thinking a very unhealthy thought. I was looking at some wafe-thin model and comparing myself to her. What!? I stopped my thoughts in their tracks and then took a closer look. Now some people are just naturally rail thin, which is perfectly fine so I don’t want to say that these models are obviously starving themselves, but I know I would have to in order to look like them. This is the danger in our society, the complete saturation and constant brainwashing we go through. We have no idea what a healthy body looks like! I meet people who learn I am a pilates instructor and who assume I have no fat on my body and I have an eight pack rippling down my stomach. That, for whatever reason, is what they envision as the absolute picture of health. I sometimes feel a little frustrated by people’s assumptions of what my body should look like because it’s just that, it’s my body and I want to be healthy, natural and balanced in it. But after my little magazine mistake on the elliptical I realized I am the same as everyone else projecting societies idea of beauty on myself. I would not feel good working out 3 hours a day and watching my diet like a crazy person to get to a size 2. So here is what I decided to do for myself: I stopped looking at the pictures as realities and either skimmed past them or saw them as a strange piece of contorted art. That gave me the perspective I needed to see myself in a more real way, a way that I didn’t feel bad that I didn’t have a razor thin body or perfect skin or gorgeous just-tousled hair. I was myself and I was pretty darn happy about it.

What do you do to get body perspective?

Pelvic Floor craziness

Where did January and February go!?  Moving Moxie Pilates studio has been none-stop for the last two months!  After adding in two new mat classes, multiple clients and still squeezing in my own life there is barely time to breath.  

Big news for the studio:  we are holding a PELVIC FLOOR workshop mid May with the prominent OB-GYN Lara Williams.  Including a mat class and then a very educational workshop after with everything you ever needed or wanted to know about your pelvic floor.  I must say this is one area of the human body that people really need to know more about.  I've spoken to multiple clients about the embarrassment that comes from weak pelvic floor muscles over the years and how to combat this problem early on.  I am proud to hold such an important workshop at the studio that people need so much.  

Moving Moxie Pilates is also now available on Facebook.  Just look under "Moving Moxie Pilates LLC" and you will find us under "health and beauty."  I will post upcoming events and special deals so check often if you want a steal.

Take care until next time,

MOXIE