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NEVER LET GO OF THE PUSH THROUGH BAR!!!!
02/22/2026

NEVER LET GO OF THE PUSH THROUGH BAR!!!!

Smile! 😀 No for real. Hold it to the side please.
02/22/2026

Smile! 😀

No for real. Hold it to the side please.

Pilates, but make it Alysa Liu.
02/22/2026

Pilates, but make it Alysa Liu.

Watching Tara and Johnny stumble around the Traitors castle with 0 confidence - even when they were right! - and then ab...
02/21/2026

Watching Tara and Johnny stumble around the Traitors castle with 0 confidence - even when they were right! - and then absolutely OWN the figure skating Olympic broadcast like the powerhouses they are was so funny!

It reminded me that we all have something. Ya know. 🥰🫶🏼🤷🏼‍♀️ We don’t have to be all things to all people all the time. It’s ok to let yourself suck at something a lil every now and then. Laugh at yourself. Give yourself a break.

✨Some of us are graceful, beautiful movers.
✨Some of us are strong and powerful!
✨Some of us are gifted at articulating ideas in digestible ways.
✨Some of us can read needs of others.
✨Some of us are a safe presence for others to just be.

NONE of us are perfect. And that is perfectly ok. Love you. Mean it. ❤️🥰🫶🏼

02/21/2026

My Pilates teacher when I land a completely mid Horseback because they know I worked my 🍑 off for it. 🥰🫶🏼❤️

Tag a Pilates teacher who always has your back! 👏🏼👇🏼

02/20/2026

Put the effort in on the front end.

Learn the exercise names.
Know the set-ups.
Remember the order.

But learning the exercises is JUST THE BEGINNING. That’s step 1. There’s more… Once you have that down, the real fun starts. Now you get to go deeper! Mix it up and squeeze the juice out of it!

Take responsibility for your workout. That’s how you achieve independence and autonomy. That’s yours. Take it with you!

In class, when the teacher isn’t using the time to teach you how to set up for an exercise, or what the basic shape is, they can instead use their words for cueing you into deeper connections. They can be a guide as you flow.

created Contrology as an accessible and realistic way for ALL to RETURN TO LIFE.The mat work was an important part of ...
02/20/2026

created Contrology as an accessible and realistic way for ALL to RETURN TO LIFE.

The mat work was an important part of his method, and could live in concert with the apparatus work, or on its own, in studios or at home.

I love old articles about because it reminds me of what Pilates even is.

Once Pilates was deemed a generic term following a trademark lawsuit in 2000, the floodgates were open for anything to be called “Pilates.” There’s no regulation around any of it.

In some ways, this has been a good thing. Without it, I probably would have never even had the opportunity to try Pilates. 🤷🏼‍♀️

On the flipside, it’s created mass confusion as many vastly different movement practices now operate under the same name. 😵‍💫

I started my Pilates journey like many: hooked, but confused.

I knew there was something good there. But until I started peeling away the fluff of everyone else’s interpretations, I never quite “got it.”

My teachers would say, “No, that’s NOT Pilates. This is the right way!” …and it was always something different. 🤯😕

I’ve meandered my way through different schools and programs and trainings, taking the good and leaving the bad. 🥰🫶🏼 And slowly I’ve built my own interpretation and understanding. ❤️

And what I can now say with full confidence is, the closer I get to the original - not just “classical” Pilates, but what Joseph Pilates actually intended and was trying to do with his method, the better it works. The more sense it makes. The simpler it is.

Anyway, sometimes I can feel like we have completely lost a plot when I scroll through social media and see all the performance and flash and everyone and their mother trying to control the narrative.

Reading these older articles and words recenters me. It reminds me what’s important.

So I decided to share this with you in case some of you could use some centering today as well. Love you. Mean it. 🫶🏼

*This article was reproduced with written permission from Daily News, Rome, NY. Copyright daily news, Rome, NY.

🎵 By the way the song choice is “Near You” by Francis Craig, the most popular song of 1947, the year this was published.

Team Amanda.
02/19/2026

Team Amanda.

02/19/2026

✨You can do Pilates with NO apparatus.
✨You can also do NO Pilates with all apparatuses.

(Cue the Tamra Barney sound: “THAT’S MY OPINION!!!” 🤪)

If a health method is so complicated and specialized that you need to devote your life to studying, practicing, and preserving it in order for it to be effective… it’s not worth preserving.

PILATES👏🏼 IS👏🏼 WORTH👏🏼 PRESERVING👏🏼.

I think one of the reasons we are seeing so many people doing gymnastics and sculpt classes on reformers (besides the fact it might just be fun for them 🤷🏼‍♀️) is that we made it weird and confusing. People got all people-y and unnecessarily complicated it.

✨It’s meant to be accessible. It IS (in its natural form) ACCESSIBLE.✨

Or not. Maybe I’m wrong. What do I know? Anyway have a nice day. Bye.

02/18/2026

(Government: But the Dow… )

02/15/2026

Pilates is my boyfriend now. 🤷🏼‍♀️🤭

(I’m just kidding my honey encourages my interests.🥰🫶🏼)

02/14/2026

Pilates mat is the homework! 10 minutes in the morning, and 10 minutes in the evening.

Joseph Pilates explains the mat work as home exercises, available to everyone, anywhere, all the time.

In Return to Life and newspaper articles, he describes his concept for Contrology (now Pilates) as natural physical education, inspired by nature and animals.

I think one of the reasons Pilates is so popular is because it is so intuitive and it works with our lifestyles.

True Pilates is not a fad or a trend or a hack. Doing Pilates (the way it was designed) is not a chore or an inconvenience. It’s intuitive, based on nature and biology and physics. It makes sense. It’s smart. And that’s why it has stood the test of time.

Of course the equipment is what Joseph Pilates is most known for. It feels so damn good. It’s an important part of the Pilates method. And it works. It’s absolutely part of the magic. But you know what else is? The mat work.

So here’s a little love note to all the Pilates mat teachers and lovers out there: You’re doing the Lord‘s work. The equipment is something special, yes of course. But the mat…The mat is where it’s at! 🧑‍🍳😘 🫶🏼👏🏼🙏🏼

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