Most of us want to improve our posture (or someone else’s) to look better, perform better, and feel better. But, to get started, we need to ask, what is “good posture,” and what is the most effective way to improve it?  As for myself, my thinking and teaching of “postural

I take an embodied approach to exercise. Pilates is known to be a mind-body exercise; however, if attention is given only to the external form of a movement rather than to the felt sense of it, it can’t be considered a mind-body exercise. It may still provide a physical “workout”

Spring is coming, and as the flowers begin to grow, the Adara Movement team does too. Beginning March 12, Adara virtual class offering expands with two new teachers, Virginia Beqaj and Lauren Desjardins. With years of experience and training, these women draw from some of the key foundations and schools

According to the Oxford Dictionary, “To nourish is to provide with the food or other substances necessary for growth, health, and good condition.”I enjoy this definition because it goes beyond just food when considering how to provide nourishment to the body. Keep it in mind as we determine how we

Pain is a distressing thing. It prevents us from fully engaging in life and sends us in search of a cause and treatment to gain relief. The Western medical model focuses on diagnostics, such as CT and MRI scans, with treatment aimed at the tissue that demonstrates pathology. This often

We are a society obsessed with maintaining youth from the outside in. However, Adara Movement works from the inside out. Opposed to Lifespan, there’s a term gaining popularity called Healthspan, defined as the number of healthy functional years a person lives. We are now living significantly longer lives than we

As you perform daily life activities like squatting, walking, running, and jumping, muscles work together in coordinated movement allowing you to perform these tasks with ease.  The coordinated activation of muscles happens at a subconscious level. Movement, on the other hand, can be brought under our conscious control. Therefore, conscious

Natural movement happens in natural environments when we’re engaged in functional tasks or play. Unfortunately, most of us are living in quite unnatural environments where we are sedentary for long periods. Therefore, our efforts to be healthy and exercise sometimes result in injury. Injuries happen when our tissues are not

Pilates was initially developed as a somatic or embodied practise in which movement is performed consciously. In other words, a person focuses on the internal experience rather than the action’s external appearance or result. Embodiment, then, is all about our bodies in the present moment – listening instead of demanding.