A combination of approximately 50 simple, repetitive exercises to create muscular exertion.
Exercises can be adapted to provide either gentle strength training for rehabilitation or a strenuous workout vigorous enough to challenge professional dancers and skilled athletes. The exercises are designed to increase muscle strength and endurance, as well as flexibility and to improve posture, balance and abdominal and lumbo-pelvic stability.
I use original Pilates, Windsor, Stott, as well as others.
Flexibility offers numerous benefits for both dancers and non-dancers.
Maintaining flexibility through regular stretching and dynamic exercises is essential for everyone, not just dancers!
Enhanced Performance: Flexibility allows dancers to execute movements with precision and fluidity, enhancing their range of motion during performances.
Injury Prevention: Flexible muscles and joints reduce the risk of injuries. Regular stretching and flexibility training help protect dancers from strains and sprain.
Aesthetic Appeal: Being flexible contributes to the overall aesthetic of dance. It elongates lines, making movements appear seamless and graceful.
Dynamic Expressiveness: Superior flexibility enables dancers to express their artistic vision fully, in any kind of dance.
Improved Range of Motion: Flexibility allows everyday movements to be more comfortable and efficient.
Reduced Soreness: Flexible muscles recover faster after physical activity, minimizing post-exercise soreness.
Better Posture: Flexibility positively impacts posture, alignment, and overall body mechanics.
Enhanced Strength: Flexible muscles can generate more force and power, benefiting daily activities and sport.
The purpose of yoga is to help individuals in all age groups improve strength and flexibility, rejuvenate the body, and work toward greater integration of soul and body as well as better physical health. Yoga can also be used as a complementary therapy for such disorders as osteoarthritis, lower back pain, depression, chronic headaches, high blood pressure, and asthma.
Yoga offers physical and mental health benefits for people of all ages. And, if you’re going through an illness, recovering from surgery or living with a chronic condition, yoga can become an integral part of your treatment and potentially hasten healing.
Slow movements and deep breathing increase blood flow and warm up muscles, while holding a pose can build strength.
Yoga is as good as basic stretching for easing pain and improving mobility in people with lower back pain. The American College of Physicians recommends yoga as a first-line treatment for chronic low back pain.
Regular yoga practice may reduce levels of stress and body-wide inflammation, contributing to healthier hearts. Several of the factors contributing to heart disease, including high blood pressure and excess weight, can also be addressed through yoga.
Gentle yoga has been shown to ease some of the discomfort of tender, swollen joints for people with arthritis.
You may feel increased mental and physical energy, a boost in alertness and enthusiasm, and fewer negative feelings after getting into a routine of practicing yoga.
Scientific evidence shows that yoga supports stress management, mental health, mindfulness, healthy eating, weight loss and quality sleep.
Numerous studies show yoga’s benefits in arthritis, osteopenia, balance issues, oncology, women’s health, chronic pain and other specialties.
