Pilates and breast cancer

www.pilates-pro.com has some great articles on breast cancer and Pilates.  Check them out!

Pilates for the Cure

Join five local Pilates Studios and health clubs in their efforts to raise money for the Komen Race for the Cure Foundation.  The week before the race, participate in a Pilates for the Cure mat class at any of the official times and studios, and 100% of the ticket sales will go towards finding a cure for breast cancer.  Purchase your ticket for $15.00 at the beginning of March at Premier Fitness, 360 Fitness, Balance Studio, Body Language Studio of Movement, and World Gym.  Log onto www.komentyler.com or www.premier-getfit.com for more details after the first week of March.

If you are a breast cancer survivor, please join us the morning before the race on Friday, May 8th at 9:00 in the morning for a mat class.  You can buy your tickets at any packet pick up for $10.00.  We'll be on the stage at Bergfeld Park...just look for the pink mats! 

Tickets will be available the first week of March.

so clever

Unfortunately I am VERY analytical.  Always thinking and rethinking things over in my head days after it's been said or written.  How could I have said this better, made that more interesting?  Could it have rhymed?  I know it sounds a little weird...but I do this ALL the time.  With my Pilates students, on my texts, with my journaling, my blogging, my prayer life...you get the point.  This thought pattern has the tendency to be very choking and stifling.  It makes conversation very unnatural and relationships very stiff.  So wasn't it interesting that my pastor twittered this very quote yesterday?  "you don't need to teach in such a way people think you are clever, but in such a way they see the Bible as sufficient."  Wow, I don't know who wrote that, but they deserve a kiss!  Am I trying to be a clever Pilates teacher, worshipper, or soul mate?  Or am I motivated by simply being a vehicle of truth and Truth for people?  

komen race for the cure

This is pretty exciting stuff.  There are so many Pilates studios and health club facilities in Tyler that we could make a difference.  Coming together for a common cause.  I have been pondering the idea of "uniform usage in the body creating uniform development".  This is one of the main pillars of the work.  So how do I apply this concept as a believer?  Am I reaching beyond my studio, enhancing the lives of other instructors, enriching my students well being? I mean reaching up and reaching out sideways and deeping way deep down.  Deep into the places that others tend to shy away from.  Looking clients and coworkers and family members in the face and really seeing them as God does.  Uniformly developing who we are as human beings and God lovers.  Not just always reaching in.  Our body needs to experience a full range of motion to be healthy in our joints and muscles.  Abduction, adduction, flexion, extension, rotation, torsion etc... How are we to develop uniformly if all we do is adduction, or draw into ourselves.  Our spirits should be craving to reach in all directions.  To reach up to the Creator, to open up to friends, family, strangers, and to dig deep into His Word.  Here's to craving uniform development my people.