Mind-Body Connection

03/07/2025

Celebrating MBC Pilates! -

MBC Pilates, formerly known as Mind-Body Connection Pilates, is celebrating 15 years in business as of April 1. I’m incredibly proud of how far we’ve come—growing, adapting, and thriving over the years. My deepest gratitude goes out to everyone who has been a part of this journey, whether as a...

15/05/2025

Betnijah Laney-Hamilton will sit out after suffering an injury in the offseason while playing outside the W.

15/04/2025

It’s probably obvious when you own and teach at a Pilates studio what you do for a living, right?
These days there’s all kinds of Pilates like Classical, Traditional, Modern and more.
To be honest I’m not sure I know what all these descriptors mean and I’m in the biz. I can only imagine how difficult it is for clients to figure it all out.

I figured I’d lay it out in the post above.
You may still be confused so let me clarify.
I teach Pilates that is about making you move better, feel stronger and be more flexible I teach the kind of Pilates that works no matter what age you are or what physical condition you’re in. Most importantly I teach the kind of Pilates that help people who have Neurological conditions or conditions that have neurological symptoms. This is my specialty and what gets me excited.

If you have a Neurological condition and you’re looking for a movement professional who can help you move without pain or symptom increase, DM me.

In person and virtual sessions are available.

Education@theneurostudio

07/04/2025

"I am not what happened to me. I am what I choose to become." – Carl Jung

07/04/2025

🖋️Roxane Gay
~ sana

28/11/2024

Happy Thanksgiving to All! Thanksgiving is my favourite holiday. Brian and I host so the cooking began Sunday. It’s quite the smorgasbord. I have many memories of all the different dishes my Mom would make with me as her helper. The table was beautiful covered with these dishes and surrounded by loving family.
I brought back a lot of those dishes with a few updates this year.

*Stuffing with apples and sausage
*Broccoli with homemade cheese sauce
*Caramelised shallots
*Butternut squash with maple syrup, seas salt, pecans and sage
*Corn pudding
*Mashed potatoes
*Green bean casserole
*cranberry orange bread
And of course gravy.

For dessert.
*homemade pumpkin pie, apple crumble and pecan pie served with ice cream and/or whipped cream.

Of course I’ve had help from family members.

I hope this holiday is filled with many loving memories for you.
Most importanly I am grateful for my family and friends, the life I live and the home I have and all those who touch my life everyday!

Peace and Gratitude.

05/11/2024

23/10/2024

Awesome Birthday and year. I was able to spend the day with Brian, Dad and Britt. Played golf at Fenwick then dinner at Al Forno’s. Love spending time with family! Looking forward to fabulous 58th year of life. I can’t believe! Where has the time gone my friends! Celebrate every day with those you love. Thanks to everyone for all the wonderful birthday wishes!!!
❤️❤️❤️

19/10/2024

There’s a very specific reason for this weeks quote.

Intuition shows up in so many different ways if you’re paying attention!

* Client - seated single arm press with rotation. Looked good but something didn’t feel quite right. I wasn’t seeing anything obvious that I could articulate.
* I was about to move on when I realised I had my left hand on my head. I had a brief moment of thinking - what is wrong with you??? Then I made the connection.
* I had the client place her left hand on her head and repeat the movement.
Client - “Now that was different! That’s great.” And yes we repped it out to create a new movement pattern for her affected side.

Oh did I mention this client is a breast cancer survivor. She has difficulty moving her affected side. It was her NON affected side that needed more feedback to move effectively.

Education@theneurostudio

09/10/2024

I love this post. It highlights something I say often during sessions - “Do less, it’s actually more”.

Here’s what I mean:
Say you’re doing side-lying leg work.
You’re lifting your leg as high as possible to end range. Do you think your doing more work, better work and creating more strength?

No! It means your leg is lifting higher and at the expense of reflexive stability. You’re moving from additional joints, many of which should be responding with stability.

It feels like we’ve trained ourselves to think more is better. My challenge to you is to try to do a little less this week when moving. Maybe don’t move to your end range and see what happens. See if you feel more reflexively stable, an ease of movement and less gripping muscles.

And maybe try the same thing in your personal life. Do a little less and see what happens. Let me know what happens.

We don’t always need to be super humans, over achievers to succeed.

Education@theneurostudio

01/10/2024

Need I say more. 😊❤️🥰