Michele Grace Morrow - Blog

August 29 4:03 PM

My daughter, Sarah Daya is an awesome Pilates teacher at Centered Body Pilates Studio in San Francisco...http://www.centeredbody.com/

July 22 8:34 PM

Here I am teaching a Poolates Teacher Trainer course in beautiful Virgin Gorda in the B.V.I's for the Rosewood Spa.  Not a bad job, ha?

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July 22 8:23 PM

Here is a picture of the Veronica Springs Pool that I use for those Poolates clients who do not have another pool available to them.  The pool is in a private aromatherapy garden and is 94 degrees and chlorine free.  Remember we don't need the whole pool for our session, and so your fitness club pool can work too!

June 19 4:35 PM

My Golfer clients swear by Pilates for helping their Golf game!  Well, they don't swear- they smile when they tell me how their game has improved from Pilates...."Michele is  a superb instructor.  She is   Just doing Pilates in and of itself helps your game, but I took Michael Wrights' Pilates Golf Workshop to increase my Pilates for Golf teaching skills.   Here is one of many articles about Pilates for Golf..".Michele is a superb instructor.  She is professional and thoughtful, gearing her instruction to my needs, one of which is to have a smoother and freer golf swing since I have a compromised left shoulder.  Each session she leads me through the Pilates protocol clearly and effectively.  Having taken Pilates from Michele for several months now, I have more freedom and flexibility of motion and my golf game has definitely improved even winning a tournament recently.  I highly recommend her."- John C. Bruch, Jr., Ph.D.

Pilates is catching on among professional golfers. Rich Beem did a lot of Pilates leading up to his win at the 2002 PGA Championship win over Tiger Woods. New York Times reports Tiger does it to. Rocco Mediate ditched the weights and does Pilates to preserve his back.

Randy Myers, who has worked with scores of PGA and LPGA players and is now director of fitness at the Sea Island Resort in Georgia helped develop the GolfPilates Program at the PGA Resort in Palm Beach Gardens FL. “Bench-pressing 100 pounds 10 times will develop strength, but not the type that has any correspondence whatsoever to how far you hit a golf ball,” In fact short tight muscles hinder your golf swing.
Sean Cochran, Phil Mickelson’s personal trainer, said the Pilates technique (initiating movement from the core) is increasingly being incorporated into the mat and weight-lifting exercise regimes used by elite players—even by Mr. Mickelson. Continue reading »

June 19 4:12 PM

 This is Coast Village Physical Therapy and Pilates,- a very private  and beautiful environment.  At C.V.P.T and Pilates we use the reformer, the cadillac or Trapeze Table, the low (wunder) Chair and the Ladder Barrel.  You don't have to be in post rehabilitation from physical therapy to work out with me here! If you are transitioning from physical therapy then the Pilates will allow you to continue the strengthening and healing process and to maintain the benefits you attained during physical therapy.

January 18 10:08 PM

This is Joe Pilates performing arm circles…now imagine that instead of springs for resistance there is warm water.  Now to get the long line forward of the body in the water, we open our stance wide and hinge a straight spine forward from the hip, sending the tail bone down to the pool bottom to help create the neutral spine.  To see Poolates(r) on DVD go to www.poolates.com and check out the store.

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January 18 9:50 PM

Ok, so you may be wondering what is that pretty graphic I see on Michele’s web pages?  That is a tensegrity model, and that is what Structural Integration and Pilates are based upon. Clients find that having both Pilates and Rolfing (Structural Integration) creates amazing results...  "For many years I have battled fibromyalgia along with genetic kyphosis and scoliosis.  In addition to this, quite a few years ago, I had a very serious horse accident which compressed my ribcage causing multiple ribs and my scapula to break as well as a lung to collapse. This accident coupled with my already limiting conditions gradually seriously curtailed my mobility.
 
Years down the line, I began to go to Rolfing on a regular basis.  This modality has given me great freedom of movement from both the accident and the fibromyalgia.  I continue to go to Sara Soltau for Rolfing but, at her suggestion, have now added Pilates with Michele Morrow.  Sara can see additional positive changes in my body from the work that Michele gives me to do and I feel important changes taking place as well.  Sara, Michele and I all feel that the combination of Rolfing and Pilates is phenomenal in making my body more flexible thus enabling a higher level of activity than would otherwise be possible.  With these two modalities, I hope to be horseback riding and hiking for many, many more years to come. I consider them both a real God send."-
 Anne Butler

So, to explain further I borrow this excerpt from Roger Golten..(keep reading).
If afterward you want to experience S.I. for yourself, check
out Santa Barbaras' own Sara Soltan, certified advanced Rolfer, http://sarasoltau.com/.

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