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Marta Hernandez Studio (formerly The Space Vancouver) - A Pilates and Wellness Studio

Marta Hernandez Studio approaches wellness and transformation as an integrated lifestyle. With strong focuses on structural realignment, core stability and efficiency of movement, Marta Hernandez Studio offers timeless knowledge with modern, highly trained expertise in rehabilitation, injury prevention, and overall fitness and healthy living through the use of modalities of Pilates, GYROTONIC® and Qi Gong. Marta Hernandez Studio is truly a place of self-transformation where people are guided to discover the authentic self by learning to listen and sense the body more deeply. By developing this deeper inner awareness, freedom of expression, creative energy and joy are naturally cultivated. In cooperation with the Physicalmind Institute of Canada, we offer several Pilates training certification programs and specialized courses each year. These courses offer some of the most innovative and cutting edge knowledge and practical application in contemporary movement systems.

12/18/2025

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink of an eye, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you’re born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”

~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

12/17/2025

This is a very common warmup for Tai Chi ☯️ and Qigong and although it seems simple, it relates to what the Taoists call the Belt Channels that help the Earth and Heavenly qi run up, down and around the body. 🌀

In my mind, I can see one of my first Tai Chi teachers performing this. I miss my lovely teacher and friend, Sai Goh. I learnt a beautiful 108 movement Tai Chi form from him that we performed on both sides for physical balance. I hope one day to be able to revisit that beautiful work I did with him so long ago now. It’s important to honour our teachers and today I honour Sai .goh and his memory by remembering him, his friendship and his teaching with fondness.🥋 🖤

12/04/2025

“Taoism is a way of life that can be expressed through Tai Chi. Tai Chi practice, combines the working development of body, mind and energy by finding balance and coordination between these aspects of our being. However, the Tao does not stop when practice has ended. The same process of harmonizing body, mind and energy must continue into daily life. The emphasis in Tai Chi practice is on creating oneness with oneself and between oneself and the Tao.”

~ The Inner Structure of Tai Chi, Mantak Chia and Juan Li

11/28/2025

The Microcosmic Orbit in Qigong and Chinese medicine, that runs along the conception and governing vessels of the front and back body, also link up with the legs and arms and is referred to as the Macrocosmic Orbit. The flow of the earth energy coming up through our legs, is then pumped up the spine via our sacrum, adrenal, and cranial pumps. From here, it can be expressed into the arms. In the Tai Chi Classic, we say “All movement is rooted in the legs, guided by the sacrum and expressed in the arms.”

As I continue my studies in a short form of Tai Chi Qigong, the Macrocosmic Orbit and the energy flows that move through the body into the arms and legs has become more clear. Working with many bodies over the years, I can honestly say that not many people are tapped into the earth, energetically and physically as well as I would like them to be. There’s a delicacy with an internal meditative quality that needs to be access to be able to fine-tune the skills of moving the earth energy through our body in its entirety. For those willing to take the time the payoff of internal and external physical health is tremendous. ☯️

11/27/2025

………………..🌬️
Air,
Fire’s muse,
waits in Past’s corridor.
Pictures of the hurts
fill the walls
with their sad
accomplishments.
She sits at the bonfire,
burning her thoughts.
Watching her bruises
evaporate in the ceremony
of forgiveness
of the pen
that wrote the story.
The emotions,
a stuck leaf
in a windshield wiper.
Only a firm hand
can stop the oscillatiion
of a Gemini mind.
Entertaining
the past and the future,
as if they ever lived
in the same reality
as the present.
The walking wound
does all she knows.
She runs to escape,
and dances for freedom.
But the mind cannot keep up
with the flow of emptiness
that fills her bones.
The antennas of starlight,
that keep her cosmic connection grounded to this density,
she calls a body.
So she floats
in the warm water
of the tears she can’t cry.
And hopes
for a brighter morning,
a spring budding of love
that expresses
because it knows
nothing else.
A lover of the dark
and also of the light.
She surrenders herself
to their bed of matrimony.
And drifts off into the dream
of the unknown
and potential worlds.

11/21/2025

“They say nothing lasts forever, but they are just scared it will last longer than they can love it.”

~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

11/14/2025

“The piano drips its little notes, like rain dreaming itself whole”.
~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

11/12/2025

Massaging my breasts, ovaries and uterus is a practice I’ve been doing in the shower 🚿 for many years now. I can’t start my day without it. It’s a beautiful way to connect my body to the earth and heavenly energies as well as feeling into the sensual aspect of touching and feeling pleasure in my body.

In Chinese medicine, the kidneys rule the sexual organs and the breasts are considered the upper kidneys. As we are making our descent into the winter ❄️ and kidney 💧 season, this could be a great addition to your daily movement practice. Also remember that the sexual energy amplifies whatever emotional energies you are holding, so it’s important to regularly cleanse the womb space and breasts energetically before doing these practices. ✨

11/06/2025

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“The spiral is a spiritualized circle. In the spiral form, the circle, uncoiled, has ceased to be vicious; it has been set free.”
~ Vladimir Nabokov

10/30/2025

“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
~ Aldous Huxley

10/29/2025

🖤…………………….
Although the ocean
appeared calm
to those
who were watching,
the wounded winds
blew ripples
of ancient pain.
Where one current starts
and another begins,
only those
who live in the sky
know.

She faces the broken pieces
with resigned surrender.
A forced introversion,
created out of the ashes
of the distrust of man.
Smiling at strangers,
the safest affinity.
Notes of solace
manipulate the music
of her heart.
The dance of a dancer
in the dance of life,
is one
of tempestuous
proportions.
Like the artist
who feels the death
of the blade of grass
as if it was personal.

The waif walks
and writes her thoughts
like leaves falling from the sky.
Singing the songs of trees
as if they were her family
legends and folklore.
The desire to climb branches
and live in the treehouse
that was never built.
She cries
for the sadness
of her family
and all their dreams
unfulfilled.

The ancient beats
stomp her native heart
back to life.
Autumn‘s last breath,
a still reminder
of the emptiness
and fullness of it all.
Her body
carries the pain
and pleasure
like two lovers.
The angst
and the excitement
bearing the same tone
in her fragile body.
Yet still we revere
one over the other.

A relinquishing embrace
is to allow the life
that was never mine.
There can be no disappointment
if there were no expectations.
My eyes open
for a new chance
each morning
to the ocean
who sprays
its magical beauty
on a new day. 🌤️

10/23/2025

🫁………….
As we are now deep in what Chinese medicine considers the Lung season, we will find that the fall often triggers things related to this organ. The lungs rule, the skin and its counter yang organ is the large intestine. If we have weaknesses in these areas, we might notice imbalances around this time.

This motion brings fresh qi to the abdomen and large intestine while also stimulating movement and flow. Imagine a gerbil’s wheel 🎡 spinning in your lower dantien. The breath is the flywheel and impetus for all movement and our whole being. 🌬️🤍

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Vancouver, BC
V6G0C6

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+16046037557

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http://martahernandezstudio.com/

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Marta Hernandez Studio approaches wellness and transformation as an integrated lifestyle. With strong focuses on structural realignment, core stability and efficiency of movement, Marta Hernandez Studio offers timeless knowledge with modern, highly trained expertise in rehabilitation, injury prevention, and overall fitness and healthy living through the use of modalities of Pilates, Gyrotonic and Qi Gong. Marta Hernandez Studio is truly a place of self-transformation where people are guided to discover the authentic self by learning to listen and sense the body more deeply. By developing this deeper inner awareness, freedom of expression, creative energy and joy are naturally cultivated. In cooperation with the Physicalmind Institute of Canada, we offer several Pilates training certification programs and specialized courses each year. These courses offer some of the most innovative and cutting edge knowledge and practical application in contemporary movement systems.