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Blog postI’m thrilled to welcome Jennifer Reed (lovingly known as Reed) to the studio. She’s a comprehensively trained Pilates Instructor through Balanced Body, and not only is she Spiral Spine Pilates’ newest teacher, but she is also launching our newest class: 12pm on Mondays. With many classes filling up recently, I’m thrilled to bring you this […]
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Blog postThis blog is part of the Analyzing Scoliosis series, which is designed to teach movement practitioners how to work confidently with clients who have scoliosis. To start at the first post in the series, go here. My book, Analyzing Scoliosis, which covers the topics in this series in more depth (as well as others), is available on Amazon.
It’s finally time to create a diagram sketch for scoliosis! This is one of the most useful pieces of information I have on each of my scoli clients, a -
Blog postThis blog is part of the Analyzing Scoliosis series, which is designed to teach movement practitioners how to work confidently with clients who have scoliosis. To start at the first post in the series, go here. My book, Analyzing Scoliosis, which covers the topics in this series (as well as others) in more depth, is available on Amazon.
This post will be best understood if you have read the previous two in this series, how to perform a physical and visual assessment.
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Blog postWelcome to a new year! I’m so excited to share with you our newest teacher, Jackie Arnold. Jackie comes to Spiral Spine Pilates with a decade of experience working with clients of all ages and body types. Early in her career, she focused on helping clients improve posture, strengthen muscles, and alleviate back and joint pain. More recently, after using Pilates to assist her during and after her own pregnancies, she has become passionate about working with pregnant and post-natal women. She e
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Blog postI’m thrilled to share that Michal Harvey will start teaching at Spiral Spine Pilates in mid-November. I had the pleasure of training Michal, and can’t wait for you to learn from her. Her unique teaching style is reflective of her background as a professional ballet dancer and her pure joy of movement. You can learn more about her background here and find Michal in the studio on Saturdays.
Below, Michal shares her favorites exercises for keeping a dancer’s body conditioned. Welcome to -
Blog postI’m so excited to be releasing a new workshop, “Scoliosis Leg Length,” with FusionPilatesEDU. There is so much confusion surrounding leg length discrepancies and how they can work in tandem with scoliosis, and I’m here to clear that all up with this latest workshop.
Whether you have scoliosis or work with scoli clients, it’s vital that you learn to assess if a case of scoliosis is caused by a leg length discrepancy. Equally important is to know how that assessment information plays in -
Blog postI’m excited to welcome Sarah Case to the teaching staff of Spiral Spine Pilates. Sarah is a Balanced Body comprehensively trained Pilates instructor and nonpartisan political analyst. Sarah originally came to Pilates years ago in hopes of alleviating low back pain. She quickly became enamored with the many benefits of a regular Pilates practice as […]
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Blog postYou really, really want to attend the Scoliosis Intensive workshop at Spiral Spine Pilates, but you just can’t make it in person. Don’t worry, I’ve got your back. Here’s how to replicate that experience from your own home or studio. Since the Scoliosis Intensive workshop is for both practitioners and people with scoliosis, you’ll have […]
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Blog postThe definition of disability is “a physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities.” i Since I have scoliosis and specialize in working with people who have scoli, I’m often asked if scoliosis is a disability. I have very strong feelings about this topic, but before I tell you my opinion, I’m going to let you see what the medical community and a few governments have to say about it.
Some of the top medical centers around the United States, inc -
Blog postBack in 2014, Dr. Loren Fishman’s side plank theory for scoliosis research was published in the Wall Street Journal, and it caused quite a stir. In case you need a refresher, the study claimed that doing a yoga side plank on one side every day will decrease the curves in people with scoliosis.
What an easy fix that would be! As I dug into the research, however, I found flaws in his research and also disagreed with some of his main concepts:
It advocated planking on the incorrect s
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