...take a chance...

watch this with me!  { <--- click that - it's good, i promise }

let's Moooove!!!

j

...that's a wrap!...

no pun intended. ok. pun intended.

You live in this!

Question: Strong or Weak?

Used? Unused?

Let's work it!

Jynene

Class Offerings...

Now teaching Mat Classes Monday and Friday @ Noon, {beginner} and Friday 1PM {intermediate/advanced}

ExerFlex Health & Fitness - 709 Palmer, Salida, CO

(719) 539.3408

 

...and @ Peak Fitness, Monday @ 4:30 -

 620 Antero Circle, Buena Vista, CO

(719) 395-3951

Attire: comfy, soft, easy to move in – but not too loose and bare feet. Loose short-shorts not recommended. :o)

 
Please practice on an empty stomach, (a small protein snack is fine) and stay adequately hydrated.


Classic Pilates classes will be on the floor on a mat, but we can change it up for fun and variety by adding stability balls, small equipment, etc.


It is recommended that you practice Pilates twice per week for maximum benefit. You will be retraining muscles which have a memory, so consistency is key!


Have Mats? I’ll Travel! I will come to you if you have a group of friends/co-workers who are committed to working through a specific number of classes, including the Privates to begin. We’ll need a large open space, clean and comfy, distraction free and each participant will need a Pilates mat. Group rates will depend on numbers and mileage. I'm willing to travel approximately 30 miles from Salida, CO.


Instructor: Jynene Hartman, Certified in Mat, Reformer 1, 2, 3, Tower, Cadillac, Arc & Barrel. {After this weekend I'll be able to include Mat II -through Advanced - Balanced Body Univeristy, and Anatomy! Yay!**}
 

**I did it!** I'm getting there...

Approx. 475 hours practicing Pilates as a client, hundreds of observation/training hours and approx. 200 teaching hours. I will be continuing through certifications and education.

What is Pilates?

...the CORE Focus...

-this is a system of quality, precise body conditioning specifically designed to strengthen, lengthen, improve flexibility and posture, tone and teach attentiveness to YOUR OWN biomechanics. Most of us are completely out of touch with our body- unless we're in pain! Pilates is Intentional Self-Care. For Life.
WHO? Pilates is for everyone of all ages and abilities. Pilates meets you where you are physically. Young and healthy, old and stiff; desk-sitter to athlete, couch potato to weekend warrior.
With time and patience, Pilates teaches you to employ Your body, mind and breath to move and grow into a taller, stronger, happier and more confident person. You'll learn the tools to take into every aspect of life; work, play, sports and rest.
Joe's Story: Joseph Pilates was born in Germany to Greek parents in 1880. He was sickly and weak, the victim of rheumatic fever, rickets and asthma. Determined to overcome, he began as a child to explore forms of excercise and body conditioning. At 32, he moved to England and during WWI, was interned as an enemy alien in a camp for a year. There, he began to implement his ideas into an exercise regimen 'using' fellow inmates; combining physical fitness with breath work and concentration to build CORE strength and flexibility. Later, working as a hospital orderly, he began working with wounded and disabled veterans left atrophying in hospital beds. He devised exercises using hospital beds, their springs, parts and even his own body weight to move and exercise them - and with great success! Current Studio equipment and apparatus still resemble his early inventions. In 1923, he emigrated to the US where he began the very first Pilates Studio in NYC. Gaining notoriety, he became trainer to many famous ballet dancers and even boxers. He continued inventing equipment and eventually, training a chosen few to carry on his work. Today there are thousands of Pilates Studios worldwide. 'Elders' work to preserve authentic Pilates.

What is a Private?

The practice of true Pilates begins with systematic instruction in the key principles and movements of the method. These important steps are requisite to being able to perform true Pilates properly and with maximum benefit. Pilates Movements used in a gym setting or copied from a DVD are just that…Pilates Movements. This can be a waste of your time at best, and a dangerous source of injury at worst.

In Private sessions, after we’ve covered our agreement to work together, your health history as well as your personal needs and goals, …you’ll receive individualized, careful instruction as we work through a checklist of fundamentals, including the essential patterns of movement, breath work and basic exercises. When this checklist is completed {approximately 4 sessions} you’ll be prepared to safely join into the flow of a Beginning Mat Class. This series of sessions takes commitment and patience… & are the best beginning to your new practice of purposeful self-care; one you’ll carry through the rest of your life.

Joseph Pilates said of Contrology (now Pilates), ‘A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.’

Work smarter! Not harder…

If you already have experience with Pilates, we’ll just need one session as we’ll be able to work very quickly through our checklists.
Some are such fans of Pilates Private Sessions that they prefer those to joining a class; some prefer frequent refresher sessions.

You’ll be investing in health and happiness.

'This is the equivalent of an "internal shower". As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.' -Pilates

...sweet...

Spring has sprung... beautiful weather here, but windy. kites anyone?

going for 3 more days of certification. so exciting...

brainstorming a lot of ideas.

grateful, jynene

see you in the funny papers...

...don't you just love a new beginning?

this morning...

spring in the fresh, crisp air

blossoms forming

somewhere

working on details here

opening this NEW tiny

little

Pilates workshop...

blooming.

excitement

in the air too...

YHWY {breath}

And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Genesis 2:7

 In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12:10

For in him we live, and move, and have our being... Acts 17:28

“The letters of the name of God in Hebrew… are infrequently pronounced Yahweh. But in truth they are inutterable….
This word {YHWY} is the sound of breathing.
The holiest name in the world, the Name of Creator, is the sound of your own breathing. That these letters are unpronounceable is no accident. Just as it is no accident that they are also the root letters of the Hebrew verb ‘to be’… God’s name is name of Being itself.”
~Rabbi Lawrence Kushner

Hydration is KEY!

Molded Rivers...

The philosopher Novalis said,“Our bodies are molded rivers.”

How is your river?

Dehydrated can be described as depleted, parched, wilted, empty, exhausted, and is defined as: to have the moisture taken out of.

Our bodies are not meant to hold water, they are meant to be in a constant state of ‘flush’. Two-thirds of a healthy adult’s body weight is water, and throughout a normal day much of this internal moisture is used up by respiration, perspiration and excretion. Each day we need to replace 2.4 liters of water, under normal circumstances.

Approximately 10%  of the body’s water flows through the blood stream and that blood is about 83% water. The lungs are about 90% water, the brain 70%. Lean muscle contains about 75% water by weight. Body fat contains 10% water. Bones, 22%! Each cell in our body is full of water; or would like to be…

Signs of dehydration include fatigue, weakness, joint pain, headache, poor digestion, feeling hungry, poor concentration and impaired short term memory, dry skin (dehydrated skin looks older), low back pain and inability to sweat which cools the body. Dehydration places great strain on even a healthy body. As you lose moisture, your heart must work much harder to pump thicker blood through your veins.

You can do this quick test to check your own body for dehydration: pinch the skin on the back of your hand while it is resting on a flat surface. When you release it, the skin should snap back into place. If it is slow in doing this, you are most likely dehydrated.

You may have heard that by the time you’re feeling thirsty, you’re already dehydrated. “Thirst kicks in when a person is approximately 1 percent dehydrated,”says Anne Grandjean, Ed.D., FACN. “At two percent hydration, thirst becomes more intense, and dry mouth occurs at three percent.”  Three percent hydration is about 3 pounds for a 150-pound woman.

Add to this equation heat, high altitude (lower air pressure can cause evaporation of moisture from skin and lungs), vigorous exercise, our very arid climate; even mild illness such as altitude sickness, and the risks of dehydration multiply.

How much water is enough? There is much debate on this! We’ve all heard the 8 by 8 rule; ‘drink 8 eight ounce glasses daily’. According to the Institute of Medicine, most people require a total of roughly 11 to 15 cups of water daily. Another rule of thumb is to drink half of our body weight in ounces of water. If you weigh, for instance, 160 pounds, you need 80 ounces of water per day. To some, this sounds miserably impossible and they have visions of floating away or spending all day and night in the restroom.

The good news is that if we include water-rich fare in our daily food intake, we will help fill up our ‘well’ not only with water, but nutrient-  and electrolyte-rich fluids. Fruits and veggies are 80-90% water by weight. Soups and stews are a great source of liquid. So in addition to the the benefits of just eating healthy, these foods provide about 20% of the fluid we need.

The bad news is that if you enjoy caffeinated or alcoholic drinks, you’ll need to add one more cup of water for each of those to maintain hydration.

Proper hydration leads to innumerable health benefits for your immune system, mood, and energy levels. Your blood pressure, heart rate and body temperature will be more easily managed. Water transports oxygen and nutrients to your cells, removes waste, protects your joints and organs by keeping them juicy, and may prevent and alleviate headaches. A glass of water will soothe hunger pangs between meals or when you’re craving that midnight snack.

If your diet is a healthy one it will provide the vitamins, mineral and electrolytes needed to help your body hold onto fluids. Excessive exercise and heat may require supplementation of these, and you can find numerous recipes for making your own healthy (and cheap!) sports drinks online -just by googling ‘make your own sports drinks.’

For a great explanation of electrolytes,  http://health.howstuffworks.com/question565.htm is fun for kids – of all ages!

Enjoy the wonderful benefits of water! Challenge yourself to make hydration a habit and you  just may find it to be the simple solution to many ailments.

Please join in and share your favorite tips for maintaining a healthy state of hydration in the comment section below...