Integrate Pilates into your Day

We’re often asked for tips and advice about how to integrate Pilates into your day.

Life is busy, so rather than stress you out with yet more to do, for the moment just think about your alignment and your movement a bit more during your day. Be more aware.

We know many of you are sitting for work, so when you’re sitting, try to sit on your ischial tuberosities (that’s your sit bones in layman’s terms). Those little nubs you see at the bottom of your pelvis. That’s what they are designed for. Many times we slump and find ourselves sitting on our coccyx (tailbone). Try to stay more upright and take your head out of the laptop or phone now and again, like now!

Of course, we move and rotate and extend and flex our spines as we go through our day, but if we unload the joints and align them with more ease some of the time, we reduce tension and compression and then they’ll serve us longer. Plus in good alignment bones take more load which is good for your bone health too.
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