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04/22/2026

🚣 Rowing from the Sternum — On the Mat

Usually seen on the reformer…
but such a powerful addition to your Mat practice.

With or without weights (1-3lbs) this variation challenges your breath, balance, shoulder mobility, back strength, and hamstrings — all while deepening your connection to the powerhouse.

It’s expansive.
It’s grounding.
It’s full-body integration.

🔑 Favorite Cues:
• Sit tall on your sit bones
• Press the backs of the legs long into the mat
• Initiate from the powerhouse, not the arms
• Crack your heart wide open
• Let the breath guide the rhythm

✨ Mantra:
I move with strength, length, and intention.

04/20/2026

❤️‍🔥 Teaser 3 …aka Full Teaser or just Teaser…
And it’s the ultimate expression of the Pilates Principles!

Teaser asks for strength, precision, flexibility, and unwavering focus — all at once. It’s not about momentum. It’s about lifting from your center and balancing in that power.

🔑 Favorite Cues:
• Scoop the low belly before you move
• Reach the legs long and energized
• Lift from the crown of the head
• Legs move as one - keep glutes engaged throughout
• Roll down one vertebra at a time

✨ Mantra:
I rise with confidence and control.

04/16/2026

✨ Teaser 1 ✨

Balance. Strength. Control.

The Teaser isn’t about momentum — it’s about meeting yourself at center and controlling from there.

Roll up + down with control.
Stabilize the lower body
Mobilize the upper body

No gripping.
No rushing.
Just deep powerhouse connection.

🔑 Favorite Cues:
• Reach long through the legs
• Exhale to roll up + reach towards the toes
• Relax the ribs
• Grow taller at the top
• Control every inch on the way down

✨ Mantra:
I rise with strength and steadiness.

04/15/2026

✨ Single Leg Teaser✨

🦶 Bottom foot grounded for support

This preparatory version builds the strength and control for your full Teaser. One leg reaches long, the other foot is planted — giving you just enough stability to find a true lift connection to the powerhouse.

It’s not a “regression.”
It’s your foundation

🔑 Favorite Cues:
• Press the grounded foot firmly into the floor
• Lengthen through the lifted leg
• Squeeze inner thighs together
• Keep legs still like a statue
• Roll down slower + slower

Feel how the support helps you organize the movement — without losing the challenge.

✨ Mantra:
I build strength with patience and precision.

04/13/2026

🌀 Twist 2 🌀

Puts balance + coordination to the test!
🌬️ Allow the breath to support and guide the movement..

🔥 Favorite Cues
• Inhale to prepare
• Exhale to thread
• Wring out from the waist
• Return without dropping the hips
• Keep breath slow + steady

✨ Mantra
I reach in every direction

04/12/2026

🌀 Twist 1

It’s Side Bend with Rotation and Spinal Flexion
This movement is all about spiraling with strength and control.

🔥 Favorite Cues
• Lift up + over!
• Gaze follows the top hand
• Rotate from the ribcage
• Deepen the twist on the exhale
• Reach long through the crown

✨ Mantra
I lengthen, rotate, and rise with control.

04/11/2026

❌ Crisscross ❌

It’s Crisscrossing the Pilates box ❎

It’s Single Leg Stretch with Rotation
Slow it down enough to feel the obliques fire.

🔥 Favorite Cues
• Reach opposite elbow from opposite hip
• Rotate entire ribcage + shoulder girdle
• Wring out every drop of air
• Exhale to deepen the twist
• Move with control, not momentum

Quality over quantity.

✨ Mantra
I reach deeper and deeper

04/10/2026

🦵 🦵Double Straight Leg Stretch

Lower with control.
Lift with power.

This one goes deep into the lower abdominals—
but only if you stay honest.

Hands support the head.
Elbows wide.
Legs long to the ceiling.

Lower as far as you can, keep the ribs + pelvis heavy.
Lift from the center—not momentum.

How deeply can you scoop the abdominals on the way up??

🔥 Favorite Cues
• Wrap the ribs in
• Chin slightly tucked, gaze toward thighs
• Inner thighs hug together
• Lower the legs with control
• Exhale to lift from the powerhouse

Slow it down. Feel the depth.

✨ Mantra:
I am strong at my center.

04/09/2026

Single Straight Leg Stretch ✨

Full back body stretch + front body strength …

🔥 Favorite Cues -
• Lift from your powerhouse
• Scissor from your center, not your hips
• Lengthen both legs — one up, one out
• Float the shoulders higher
• Keep collarbones wide
• Control > speed

This is strength + precision working together.

Mantra:
I move with strength and length

Do you feel this more in your lower abs or hip flexors? 👇

04/04/2026

- The OG Mat work -
All 34. 🤸🏽
No shortcuts. 🧘🏼‍♀️
Just strength, control, and commitment. 💪🏽

The classical series isn’t just a workout — it’s a practice in discipline, flow, and self-belief.

✨Mantra:
I am evolving with each breath in each rep!

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04/04/2026

Have you met the most underrated Pilates apparatus? 👀

I’d love to know ➡️
If you had one at home… do you think you’d use it??
Or if you do have one… do you actually use it?? 👀

The chair is small, powerful, and way more versatile than you think… strength, balance, control—all in one. And yes, it doubles as actual furniture 😉

Ready to level up your practice? I’ve got you on YouTube. Full Chair workouts!

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