Principal Pilates - Blog

This blog is all about the abdomen and the pressure it's under most of the time.    Structure of the trunk The abdomen s...

 Why do Pilates teachers always talk about neutral?   What does it mean and is it important? Well, neutral can relate to almost all of o...

Okay, so I'm not talking about contraception, I'm talking about the sheet of muscles in the lower ribcage that we use to breathe. ...

Source: my back garden  A recent study published in the International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy * found a significant relations...

Lower back pain can be broken down into acute and persistent.  The latter is pain that continues for more than three months after the initia...

  The core is the centre, the inside.  And our core, like this apple's, is central to our body and pretty deep inside us. Unlike the a...

Thought I'd share some gift ideas now Christmas is coming... For clothes (Pilates or not) I'm loving BAM bamboo clothing I think...