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The Fluent Body with Sarah Brumgart offers group Yoga classes for all skill levels and ages, Wednesdays noon-1pm and Thursdays 6-7pm.

Classes held @ Austin Center for Holistic Healing & Yoga, 5515 Balcones Drive, 2nd floor, near 2222 & Mopac, across from Chez Zee Restaurant, above Independence Title, entrances to staircase by Pakmail or Nails.

Register at  sarah@sarahbumgart.com

512-241-1915

www.sarahbrumgart.com

Pilates brings me new, sends my heart through, stays with my day, never ends when I pay.

 Pilates finds me a phrase beginning with my lats and speaking through my back crossing to my hips and my abs.

Pilates catches me in mid air pushing on the earth rising through these ashes to breath life into a new born balloon stretching to a new strength.

In memory of a ballet dancer, Pilates lifts my whole body to anticipate the next move.

In memory of the grand music of ballet, Pilates uses one move to fill the space of my entire body and to easily capture the rounded space in which I live.

In tandem with a ballet dancer, four corners of my torso send out a unison trumpet call that commands first the attention and then the action of every dancer in every muscle of every cell from my metatarsal to my cranial tip.

Heard at The Pilates Studio Austin, “I could come here for the next 20 years and you would still find a way to improve my body.”  Yes that is Pilates, but that comment was about an instructor, Arletta, who uses her skill as a dancer to explore the body in all its nuances and find the intricate connections to the next growth.

Besides the ability to explore to the nth degree, being a dancer gives Arletta the awareness of what the Pilates training means for the body moving through space.  That means she is not seeing simply a Pilates task completed, she is seeing the body in a continuum of increasing ability to move in space.  In other words, she knows what can come next after you learn the Pilates task.  She has done it herself on the dance floor and taught others to not only move with power and grace but also with emotion and passion.

My learning this week was another example.  Arletta used just the right words to take me to a new level.  Those words were, “Let you breathing relax these shoulders and let them go down rather than trying to push them down.”  This is classic dance awareness and use of subtlty as well as power to take a learning body to the next level.

Major shifts have been happening in my aging body, straightening up, balancing a shortened side, supporting a weak lower back, and learning to support knee and ankle movement with a strong core.  In the process my shoulders and neck are having fits trying to adjust to all this change.  Laying on my back doing leg lifts, I was struggling.

When she said simply, “Let your breath relax the shoulder, “  I went straight to heaven and my body understood a completely different way of moving.  There were other dancer words too that helped.  They were so helpful and so right on I can not even remember them, something like “floating,” or “melting.”

Dancers rule and in Pilates that is the rule.

Just finished another Pilates session at The Pilates Studio in Austin.  Dancers know how to explore the body.  When I raise a problem of one leg shorter or a low back pain, the solution is not a standard one fits all solution.  Choosing to use one leg at a time on the reformer sounds simple but it is the first time for me.  The coordination of both legs in the process is also an exploration that connected something for me.

Dancers have the experience of exploring the body in space and can apply their daily creative approaches to use of the Pilates system and the reformer.  The results are more attention to follow through rather than simple repetition and there is something about connecting with my imagination with the dancers’ language and approach that goes directly to my brain.

Choose a dancer for your Pilates instructor or next best an instructor who is trained by a dancer.

A dancer is an experienced explorer of how every body part works and knows how to coordinate the entire body as it moves through space.

This knowledge gives the dancer the edge on helping you to identify what you need to make a long lean, effecient body and how to reduce the pain of injury.

Pilates is the exercise system that builds long lean bodies, and it is all based on the principles of dance. Here is a review of The Pilates Studio.

Ann and her team have helped me create a new body. Through Pilates and an improved diet, I’ve increased my core strength, taken six inches off my waistline, dropped 30 pounds and have more energy than I’ve had since college. Brad Whitworth Technology Executive Thank you for helping me create my new body. Brad

 Pilates is the exercise system that explores deep in the muscle tissue and joints.  The result is muscles that work together to be long lean and pain free.  Here is a review of The Pilates Studio in Austin.

Ann Arnoult is a consummate professional who has improved the quality of my life immeasurably. I suffer from scoliosis (curvature of the spine.) Before I began working with Ann, I was in severe pain, subsisting on Advil for relief. The doctor’s recommendation was that I have metal rods implanted in my spine (with the minor caveat that I could become paralyzed from this surgery!) Through Ann’s care and her knowledgeable, targeted instruction in Pilates, I have been able to establish core strength, maintain flexibility and eliminate pain. I cannot thank Ann enough – she has rebuilt my back – and saved my life! Peg Champion