MOVEMENT INTELLIGENCE
Somatic Pilates with Hallie Aldrich, Movement Specialist
SERVICES ON VASHON ISLAND
Somatic Pilates with Hallie Aldrich, Movement Specialist
SERVICES ON VASHON ISLAND
Somatic Pilates- What the heck is it?
"If it isn't hard, it isn't Pilates" is a Pilates saying that is all too true. Yet true core strength actually requires muscle release--the relaxation of "fight or flight" muscles that many of us use habitually--and **POW!** You finally feel core movement. Is it difficult? Yes, at first, as you identify inefficient movement habits, and return to core moves that most of us were born with (so it can't be that hard, right?).
Does developing true core strength improve spinal-related pain? Yes. Will you be able to connect your core to your riding, your golfing, your tennis, your swimming, your singing, your music playing, your dancing, your whole body? Yes. Can you feel your movement grow grounded yet free, released yet focused, controlled yet light? Yes.
Learn to feel your way to core-focused movement by using somatic awareness and strengthening exercises. Then watch all your muscles explode with energy and strength because you are now able to stabilize and mobilize your true core muscles.
Movement Specialist-- Who the heck is that?
Hallie Aldrich is a human alien who brings a lifetime of action into her training as a movement educator. There isn't a sport she hasn't played. Okay, she has no experience in Lacrosse. Or rowing. But what about Basketball, football (touch), track & field, swimming, springboard diving, volleyball, ballet, modern dance, salsa, contact improvisation, tennis, golf, age-ing, and couch potato-ing? YES. With these experiences, she can hone in on your needs, strengths, and challenges to balance your movement performance, no matter what you do.
What happens in a session?
In the initial session, we document your needs (paperwork), then we examine (through pictures and movement) your skeletal alignment, muscle structure, and movement habits. Then we assess (through more movement), and design a plan of action to get you moving toward your goals. By the way, this session is $20 bucks off! (It's the 60 minute new client discount on the price menu). After the initial intake, we re-examine every 10 sessions or so to monitor your progress .
How many sessions will it take?
Your first commitment is 10 sessions, consecutively, once a week, twice a week, or wow thrice a week! This is based on the Joe Pilates' theory that after 10 sessions you feel different, after 20 you look different, and after 30 you are different. Please don't take our word for it, we've provided a blog link below. We ask for a commitment to 10, "feeling different", because it does take some practice to implement the movement principles into your body.
We ask for at least a weekly commitment so that you don't waste your money reviewing what you already learned. A typical Private Pilates session is 50-60 minutes. Ours our 75 minutes. This provides more time to let foreign ideas sink in (as you find the muscles you never knew you had), and to have time for Aldrich "rewards".
What the heck are Aldrich "rewards"?
Imagine the type of Pilates that Dustin Hoffman or Sarah Jessica Parker would do... "assisted" Pilates, as in the instructor does most of the work to make you feel yummy stretches and releases. Those are rewards.
What is a combo session?
After your first 10 - pack of Pilates (only) sessions, you may opt for a combo session or two-- 45 minutes of Pilates and 45 minutes of massage. These sessions are 90 minutes. And yes, you can have more massage minutes (you schedule a massage after your session to do this) but no, you cannot have less Pilates minutes! It's our job to keep you honest. ish.
Does my massage insurance cover this?
How did you hear?!? SOMETIMES it does, if your treatment requires contract-relax or muscle energy testing modalities, which can be incorporated into a combo session. Yahoo!
"If it isn't hard, it isn't Pilates" is a Pilates saying that is all too true. Yet true core strength actually requires muscle release--the relaxation of "fight or flight" muscles that many of us use habitually--and **POW!** You finally feel core movement. Is it difficult? Yes, at first, as you identify inefficient movement habits, and return to core moves that most of us were born with (so it can't be that hard, right?).
Does developing true core strength improve spinal-related pain? Yes. Will you be able to connect your core to your riding, your golfing, your tennis, your swimming, your singing, your music playing, your dancing, your whole body? Yes. Can you feel your movement grow grounded yet free, released yet focused, controlled yet light? Yes.
Learn to feel your way to core-focused movement by using somatic awareness and strengthening exercises. Then watch all your muscles explode with energy and strength because you are now able to stabilize and mobilize your true core muscles.
Movement Specialist-- Who the heck is that?
Hallie Aldrich is a human alien who brings a lifetime of action into her training as a movement educator. There isn't a sport she hasn't played. Okay, she has no experience in Lacrosse. Or rowing. But what about Basketball, football (touch), track & field, swimming, springboard diving, volleyball, ballet, modern dance, salsa, contact improvisation, tennis, golf, age-ing, and couch potato-ing? YES. With these experiences, she can hone in on your needs, strengths, and challenges to balance your movement performance, no matter what you do.
What happens in a session?
In the initial session, we document your needs (paperwork), then we examine (through pictures and movement) your skeletal alignment, muscle structure, and movement habits. Then we assess (through more movement), and design a plan of action to get you moving toward your goals. By the way, this session is $20 bucks off! (It's the 60 minute new client discount on the price menu). After the initial intake, we re-examine every 10 sessions or so to monitor your progress .
How many sessions will it take?
Your first commitment is 10 sessions, consecutively, once a week, twice a week, or wow thrice a week! This is based on the Joe Pilates' theory that after 10 sessions you feel different, after 20 you look different, and after 30 you are different. Please don't take our word for it, we've provided a blog link below. We ask for a commitment to 10, "feeling different", because it does take some practice to implement the movement principles into your body.
We ask for at least a weekly commitment so that you don't waste your money reviewing what you already learned. A typical Private Pilates session is 50-60 minutes. Ours our 75 minutes. This provides more time to let foreign ideas sink in (as you find the muscles you never knew you had), and to have time for Aldrich "rewards".
What the heck are Aldrich "rewards"?
Imagine the type of Pilates that Dustin Hoffman or Sarah Jessica Parker would do... "assisted" Pilates, as in the instructor does most of the work to make you feel yummy stretches and releases. Those are rewards.
What is a combo session?
After your first 10 - pack of Pilates (only) sessions, you may opt for a combo session or two-- 45 minutes of Pilates and 45 minutes of massage. These sessions are 90 minutes. And yes, you can have more massage minutes (you schedule a massage after your session to do this) but no, you cannot have less Pilates minutes! It's our job to keep you honest. ish.
Does my massage insurance cover this?
How did you hear?!? SOMETIMES it does, if your treatment requires contract-relax or muscle energy testing modalities, which can be incorporated into a combo session. Yahoo!
http://www.goodbodypilates.com/blog/2016/4/22/in-10-sessions-youll-feel-a-difference
