Movement science, cultural travel, and the real stories behind both.
I write about what 40 years of teaching bodies and one decade of leading international retreats have actually taught me, and I skip the fluff.
Whether you're here because your back hurts, because Morocco is calling, or because someone in class told you to check this out — welcome.
Small shifts make a big difference.
The Breath Pilates Actually Teaches (And What Gets Lost When We Skip It)
Pilates has a breathing system that most students never fully learn — compression breathing, slow parasympathetic breath, and yes, a percussive cleansing breath Joseph Pilates built into the Hundred. Each has a distinct purpose. And for women with diastasis recti, understanding the breath isn't a supplementary topic: it's where the actual work begins. I wrote about how it all fits together.
What Fascia Taught Us About Dismissing What We Don’t Understand
In the 1980s, fascia was called “inert tissue.” Filler. Surgeons cut through it to get to the structures that mattered. Anatomy professors pulled it off cadavers and threw it away.
A few decades later, we discovered it has more sensory nerve endings than muscle. It’s critical for proprioception, pain signaling, and structural integrity. Some researchers still deny it.
I’ve been thinking about what else we might be throwing away right now.