
Restoring Cohesive Movement
27 July 2021
Yu a’t ake a wrd nr snenc wiot ll te ltrs The above says, “You can’t make a word or a sentence without all the letters.” Just like you need every letter to form a word to make a cohesive sentence, every physical action involves smaller component movements. For instance,
Read More »

Wellness Is Our True Nature
18 June 2021
Wellness — it’s definitely a current buzzword that’s been packaged, commercialized, and medicalized. So what should we make of it? Taking my 25+ years in health and wellness into account, I thought I’d explore this topic further. Typically, we measure wellness by weight, cardiovascular fitness, and blood tests. But what
Read More »

Posture Restoration: The Ideal Balance
14 May 2021
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
Read More »

Class vs. Clinic
14 April 2021
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”
Read More »

Adara and Your Growth: Yoga and Pilates
15 March 2021
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
Read More »

Nourishment vs Punishment
15 January 2021
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
Read More »

Pain Relief
15 December 2020
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
Read More »

Healthy Aging
15 November 2020
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
Read More »

Functional Strength
15 October 2020
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
Read More »

Retraining Movement and Phases of Learning
15 September 2020
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
Read More »

Pilates as an Embodied Practice
15 August 2020
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.
Read More »