What we do
Pilates & Fascia Fitness
Arlene calls it ‘Body Renovation.’ This means changing the underlying Fascial structure according to the principles of how fascia works in order to rebuild strengths in alignment.
This reduces pain and has proven to alter or eliminate issues with many conditions: Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS); fibromyalgia, Joint Replacements, hypermobility and more. Arlene uses Pilates PostRehab techniques based on clients’ needs including Surgery Preparation, Pre & Post Natal work and much more. We work with our clients, wherever they are in their ‘body journey’ toward pain-free living, fitness and strength. The work has always been a collaboration. It involves conversation, discovery and finding solutions for the Mind and Body that comes to change.
Post-Rehab Techniques to Train the Modern Body and Its Fascial Structure
The Modern Body Needs Help. I’m a believer in using whatever tools and props I can to improve Function, Range of Motion, Circulation, Proprioception, Control, Confidence and Strength. We use many tools and strategies. Oovs, Resistance Bands, Kinesio-Taping, whatever we can do. We don’t live using the many attributes that our Bodies have, Modern Life Create Issues. Tools can help address the Issues.
Body Flossing
The Tight Suit Inside
Arlene first spent 30 years feeling her various fascia lines that gave her pain. In the 20 years she’s been teaching she’s ‘mapped’ her clients lines of fascial pain. It isn’t always a line, but it often is a line. The energetic lines of the fascia that handles the force transmissions in our body have fascinated her and she’s been mapping them for the last few years in order to illustrate what she sees in alignment and the misalignments of her clients. The Forward Head & Shoulder illustration shows how the ‘normal’ balanced lines of fascia are changed by the common misalignment we see today. These are very similar to acupuncture meridians. When we do the Mind Body Work of Pilates or other exercises we begin to feel these lines of connection. They inform us as we move through the biotensegrity of our amazing, energetic bodies.
Common Energy (Force Transmission) Lines that Fascia Creates:
Our chronic pain patterns, those mysterious pains usually arise from your connective tissue and its response to life you have lived. This can impair our daily lives. We are a tree that runs, a house that jumps. It’s complicated. There are Consequences and Solutions to this Modern Life.
Forward Head & Shoulder
Lower Body Patterns
Back Body Patterns
Myo Tool Box™
Teaching Self-Care is our Mission: The Myo Tool Box™ and more:
The Myo Tool Box™ makes mobilizing aspects of our Fascial anatomy easier, especially for those with hyper mobility and those who are ‘just getting back into shape.’ It serves as storage and an apparatus for Self MyoFascial Release (SMR). The box has gone through 7 prototypes and has been tested with Arlene’s clients since 2017. It was intended for home-use, but worked well in Arlene’s larger studio when she had group classes.