Pilates Archives - Living with Scleroderma https://livingwithscleroderma.com/tag/pilates/ Reflections on the Messy Complexity of Chronicity Mon, 11 Aug 2025 16:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 31053421 Noodling Around https://livingwithscleroderma.com/noodling-around/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/noodling-around/#comments Tue, 05 Aug 2025 12:00:50 +0000 https://livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=10584

Last Thursday I went to my new Pilates studio for the third time. I found an instructor who understands my need for adaptations without my even having to ask, I made it through the class without any setbacks, and I’m gaining strength little by little. But there’s an issue I need to address. At this […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/noodling-around/feed/ 6 10584 Shall We Dance? https://livingwithscleroderma.com/shall-we-dance/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/shall-we-dance/#comments Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:00:01 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=1248 When I was in ninth grade, I talked my best friend into taking a modern dance class together. We met one afternoon a week in the gym of a nearby elementary school, where we wore black, short-sleeve leotards and danced to Crosby, Stills & Nash’s Wooden Ships. The opening moves involved balancing on your right […]

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]]> https://livingwithscleroderma.com/shall-we-dance/feed/ 2 1248 Monday Night Pilates https://livingwithscleroderma.com/monday-night-pilates/ https://livingwithscleroderma.com/monday-night-pilates/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 13:00:56 +0000 http://www.livingwithscleroderma.com/?p=242 Inhale-two-three-four-five Exhale-two-three-four-five-10 Inhale-keep-your-collar-bone-open Exhale-two-three-four-five-20 We’re lying on our backs, the four of us, each on a black padded platform carriage called a reformer, our legs extended at 45 degrees, our heads and shoulders curved forward, straight arms pumping alongside our torsos, hands in straps that pull against a combination of springs and our own body weight, doing […]

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