Eagle True Pilates Arts

11/16/2025

Yep! Real life! Just keep building strength of all kinds!

Wat een fantastisch filmpje. Ravi Mishra 🙏💚💫

11/05/2025

How high can you reach? Open the heart & chest & Breathe! Improve balance & control! Private, Dou & Mat Classes , Call 207 938 9888 for info & to Schedule.

11/05/2025

Joe Pilates & student demonstrate exercises on the Cadillac.

10/31/2025

Happy Halloween! Cinderella’s Pumpkin Dancing Witches preside over ETPA studio sessions today!
Witch hair? Don’t care! Spirits flying in & out! 🧙🏽🎃🧛🧙🏾‍♀️☠️🙀🧌🧛‍♂️🎃🐈‍⬛😱 👻😸🧛‍♀️🦹‍♀️🦸🏻‍♂️👯🕷️🦇

10/28/2025

Beautifully correct! Thanks for sharing Brooke!

When we ask to close the bottom ribs in Pilates exercises, the goal isn’t to collapse the ribs, it’s to create expansion through the entire back and sides of the ribcage. 🌬️

Very often people are not adept at at expanding their back at the level of the ribs where the more rigid thoracic spine transitions to the more mobile lumbar spine (T11/12) or simply, the bottom of the ribs.

TIP: (If you can’t propriocept where this is, try coughing. This will connect you to the intercostal muscles of the lower ribs.)

The goal of the Pilates exercises altogether (ie closing the front to open the back - the 100, or closing the back to open the front - backbends, or contracting one side to open the other - side bend, or pulling up in the chest while pulling down on the central tendon - rowing III & IV) is a full, three-dimensional breath.

This 360 degree breathing helps the nervous system shift into calm and presence, grounding our movement from the inside out.

The diaphragm’s central tendon connects breath to powerhouse as it descends, it anchors and lifts, supporting the spine and deep stabilizers.

Next time you practice, imagine your breath expanding not just forward, but back, wide to the sides, and up and down.

Make space to expand your lungs and coordinate this with your movements and you will begin to experience a freedom in the rest of your body that you couldn’t imagine!

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10/25/2025

Looks like my left thumb has hitchhiked more!
So there Ancestry! Must be due to sitting on my hands like Romana advised, & those Juilliard finger exercises!

10/20/2025

Gaining strength!
Wednesday Mat Class.
For Info ~ 208 938 9888.

09/18/2025

Every day studio support, Nate just knows when to show up for a snuggle & check on one’s breathing & progress!
Private, Duo, Studio Mat & Zoom sessions.
Call Julia at 208 938 9888 to set up your personal Pilates appointments.
2nd generation teacher, RPI certified,
Eagle True Pilates Arts.

09/09/2025

Whoohoo!!!

09/09/2025

Join in for our Virtual Mat Class!
8:00 AM, Tues & Thurs. 18$, ten session check or Venmo join.
Learn the Original Pilates Mat Exercises.
Requirements:
1. A safe flat mat surface
2. Your willing mind & body!
3. Regular attendance as possible!

40 minutes, Gain strength & alignment for your day & life’s adventures.
Call Julia at 208 938 9888 for info &
sign up. The true Pilates Method.
Romana’s Pilates International Instructor, over 45 years teaching experience.
Welcome! Let’s begin!