Leveraging the Equipment you Already Have
By Anne Delport
Core stability and strength is a key requisite not only for good posture, flexibility and general wellbeing, but also for many sports and activities. Golf, cycling, mountain biking and running, to name just a few, all benefit from a workout regime that improves overall flexibility, increases [...]

Avoid Spinal Reconstruction Surgery with Pilates

By Myriam Pelletier

I’m 12, sitting in our family doctor’s office in France. I’m not listening to what they are saying. I’m staring at the x-rays of my spine on a lit up wall. One of them looks like a snake. The diagnosis is scoliosis and my thoracic spine is also [...]

Pilates Makes a Difference with Expectant Mothers
By Veronique Coignac
No other experience in life can compare to the incredible journey a woman takes throughout her pregnancy until the delivery of her newborn. I am lucky enough to have gone on such a journey twice and am the proud mother of two son’s age 21 and 17. [...]

Pilates & The Psoas Muscle

By Liz Koch
Getting to know your psoas on a personal level enriches a Pilates instructor’s ability to translate the many faceted aspects of the psoas into a client’s instructional material. It is only by engaging the psoas properly and initiating movement from within a supple dynamic core that lengthening [...]

ALISON PERCIC - Featured Trainer October ‘08
Endorse: Peak Pilates
Current Residence: Melbourne, Australia
Favorite Book: My reading covers a huge variety of authors and genres. Hard to give one favourite – maybe the Harry Potter series.
Favorite Workout Apparel: I love Lululemon (as well as Lorna Jane – an Aussie brand)
I admire and am inspired [...]