Marta Hernandez Studio

Marta Hernandez Studio 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.

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches w...
02/11/2026

“You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen.“
~ Ernest Hemingway

“It is said that when you control your breath, you control your life.”~ The Inner Structure of Tai Chi, Mantak Chia and ...
02/11/2026

“It is said that when you control your breath, you control your life.”
~ The Inner Structure of Tai Chi, Mantak Chia and Juan Li

“The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.”~ Virginia Woolf
02/06/2026

“The weather varies between heavy fog and pale sunshine; My thoughts follow the exact same process.”
~ Virginia Woolf

02/05/2026

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Part 1:
Exquisite chat on a rainy day with my dear and wonderful student and friend .natasha

Carrying on where we left off on the last talk, Natasha and I discuss how to bring self-care more easily into our daily lives. And beyond that, exploring how we can bring more meaning into these practices by using tools of deeper Presence and awareness to create a sense of Ritual. Instead of wellbeing becoming another thing on our to-do list, it becomes a more fulfilling experience. An honouring of our authentic Self. Where life moves out of the ordinary and into the Sacred. 🤲🏻✨

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.“ ~ Robert Bresson
01/29/2026

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.“

~ Robert Bresson

“What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward turning eye, which breathes significance into...
01/21/2026

“What do humans go to art for, but to locate within themselves that inward turning eye, which breathes significance into all of existence – for what is art but the act of infusing matter with the breath of God?”
~ Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

“But being unlikable wasn’t the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so...
01/15/2026

“But being unlikable wasn’t the reason she was alone. She was alone so she could hear herself thinking. She was alone so she could hear herself living.”

~ Sheila Heti, Pure Colour

01/15/2026

The Microcosmic Orbit is a circulation in the body that runs through the conception and governing vessels of the front and back body. 🔥 Moving it in the fire cycle brings a more forward masculine quality to our energy.💧Moving it in the water cycle brings a more receiving and relaxing quality to our energy. As small and delicate as this movement might appear, it’s actually quite profound. There is much more going on internally than meets the eye. And, it requires a certain level of meditative awareness to be able to move the qi/energy as well as the physical body. 🧘🏻‍♀️

Delving deeper into ourselves with these ancient movement practices, heal us not only on the physical level, but also the emotional and spiritual levels. Thus allowing us to experience the wholeness of our true nature. 🌱

“I’m sorry I keep saying how are you? When I really mean are you happy?” ~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
01/09/2026

“I’m sorry I keep saying how are you? When I really mean are you happy?”

~ Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

“All the principles of Tao are present within Tai Chi Qigong practice. Practice daily, and you will gradually become an ...
01/07/2026

“All the principles of Tao are present within Tai Chi Qigong practice. Practice daily, and you will gradually become an embodiment of Tao. Balance, harmony, and integrity will be present in everything you do; you will begin to move through life with the Wu Wei, effortlessness – not doing, yet leaving nothing undone.”

It’s been such a pleasure to study and complete my certification in Tai Chi Qigong. My depth of understanding of these brilliant ancient practices of Qigong and martial arts has increased to a new level and I am already integrating it into my teachings. It’s also interesting how the knowledge doesn’t always have to be shared verbally but also transmits via my embodiment. Especially my connection to the lower dantien/pelvis area. Living from this lower and deeper place in my body has given me the gift of so many new awarenesses and I am sure it will translate to my students as well. 💥

Thank you so my wonderful teacher for sharing her wisdom and knowledge with me in such a graceful and loving way. 🙇🏻‍♀️💜☯️

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

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the hi...
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.🥋 🖤

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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.