Daily Archives: April 30, 2016

Getting to know…Gigi Tynan

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This is the fourth in our series of Getting to Know Your Instructor. Meet Gigi Tynan the most recent addition to our team at Live & Breathe Pilates.

When you were younger what did you want to be when you grew up? Gigi

I wanted to become a dancer.

What inspired you to become a Pilates teacher?

When seeing the benefits of what Pilates did for my own body, I was inspired to share that knowledge with other people and become a teacher.

What’s your favourite thing about teaching?

The job satisfaction from increasing clients body awareness and seeing them move more efficiently and also the pain relief associated with relieving physical imbalances such as back pain.
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Take a Deep Breath

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We’re all about breathing deeply, widely and openly at Live & Breathe Pilates.

So we’re delighted to welcome Deirdre O’Connor back to the studio this May with her Take a Deep Breath workshop.

There is breathing – and there is Breathing, with a capital B.

Open hearted, full body breathing that creates wave like spinal moments which feel juicy Deirdre O'Connorand alive.
 
Breath inspires us, literally, and takes us out of the murky lethargy that seems to land in our bodies over the winter months.

It also allows us to move with fluidity and grace, and enlivens our very beings as it carries breath-infused prana to places of stagnation and tension

. Often our breath is the exact opposite of this – shallow, constricted, anxiety making half-breaths is more often our lot, particularly if we are leading busy, demanding lives.
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