Pilates as Mindful Movement for Mental Health
In this episode of the ANEW Insight Podcast, Dr. Supatra Tovar continues her conversation with Sarah Meinert, founder of Ozean Pilates and Wellness, to explore how Pilates transforms not just the body, but also the mind. Sarah shares how she integrates mindfulness into every session—using guided questions to help clients notice which muscles are activating, stay present in the moment, and reconnect with their bodies in ways that go far beyond physical exercise.
Repatterning the Body: Awareness Creates Transformation
Sarah explains that many people are disconnected from their bodies, often taking basic movement for granted until an injury occurs. Through Pilates, clients learn to repattern their bodies—activating the right muscles, correcting imbalances, and improving efficiency. This heightened awareness builds strength while also reducing the risk of injuries.
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Healing After Trauma, Pregnancy, and Illness
Pilates plays a powerful role in recovery for women after C-sections, for breast cancer survivors, and for anyone dealing with trauma-related disconnection. By addressing scar tissue, posture, and subconscious protective habits, Pilates helps clients reclaim sensation, improve alignment, and rebuild confidence. Sarah emphasizes the importance of seeing the body as functional and resilient—shifting focus from appearance to strength, mobility, and healing.
Reframing Body Worth: From Objectification to Functionality
Cultural pressures often condition women to see their bodies as objects to be judged, rather than tools for living. Dr. Tovar and Sarah discuss how Pilates reframes body worth around functionality—lifting, bending, walking, and moving with ease. This shift fosters gratitude and empowerment, helping clients move away from shame and toward a healthier, more sustainable self-concept.
Starting Small: Advice for Beginners Struggling with Mental Health
For those hesitant to begin a fitness routine—especially when battling low energy or mental health challenges—Sarah suggests beginning small. Joining a group class, trying a short online session, or even adding ten-minute “exercise snacks” throughout the day can create momentum. The key is consistency, community, and accountability without pressure for perfection.
Pilates, GLP-1 Medications, and the Future of Wellness
The conversation also touches on the rise of GLP-1 weight loss medications and the risks of muscle loss. Sarah and Dr. Tovar highlight how Pilates and resistance training can protect muscle mass, making them critical tools for anyone on or coming off these drugs. Looking forward, Sarah sees Pilates evolving alongside new technologies, better preventative health measures, and deeper collaboration between fitness and medicine.
Sarah’s Vision: Retreats, Research, and Lifelong Relevance
Sarah hopes to expand Ozean Pilates and Wellness through international retreats, cross-industry collaborations, and more education around gut health, skin health, and overall well-being. She also calls for more research into the mental and physical benefits of Pilates, noting that while yoga and strength training are heavily studied, Pilates deserves equal recognition.
Key Takeaways
- Mindfulness in Pilates fosters awareness and presence.
- Body connection reduces injury risk and builds resilience.
- Healing applications support women post-pregnancy, cancer recovery, and trauma.
- Functional empowerment shifts focus from appearance to capability.
- Sustainable routines can start small and grow over time.
- Pilates protects muscle during the GLP-1 medication era.
Pilates is more than a trend—it’s a timeless, adaptable practice that nurtures strength, recovery, and self-connection. Whether you’re healing from illness, reclaiming your body after pregnancy, or simply seeking to move with more ease, Pilates offers tools to transform both body and mind.
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Here is the Full transcript:
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Welcome to the ANEW Insight podcast
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empowering and inspiring your journey
to optimal health.
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Hosted by Doctor
Supatra Tovar, clinical psychologist,
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registered dietitian, fitness expert
and author of Deprogram Diet Culture:
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Rethink Your Relationship with Food,
Heal Your Mind, and Live a Diet Free Life.
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I follow my guests’ journey
to optimal health,
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providing you with the keys
to unlock your own wellness path.
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Tune in and evolve with us.
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Welcome back to the ANEW Insight podcast.
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We’re back for the second half
of our interview with founder of Ozean
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Pilates and Wellness, Sarah Meinert.
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Sarah gave us some really amazing insight
into her inspiration
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to create resilience through movement.
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I’m so excited to pick her brain
somemore.
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Welcome back. Thank you.
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Yes. So your company
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integrates
a holistic approach to wellness.
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So how do you incorporate
something like mindfulness
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or other mental health practices
into your Pilates sessions.
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I incorporate mindfulness into my sessions
with my clients
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by asking questions to keep them
active and engaged in the session.
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And those questions
are like in regards to
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the movement, right.
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So even if we’re going through
a chest lift,
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so what do you feel during this exercise?
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You know, are you feeling your abs,
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You know, what muscle groups do
you think are helping you
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do this exercise?
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And some of them, you know,
say the right muscle groups, and some might not,
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you know, or it’s even like footwork,
you know, just standard footwork.
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And it’s like, okay, so as you’re
going through this, what do you feel?
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Oh, my quads.
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Really, you feel your quads. Do you feel like your
hamstrings or your glutes?
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No. Oh well,
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lets adjust the weight,
lets adjust your pelvis.
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You know, are you thinking
I don’t want you to feel your quads, you know,
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so just giving them questions
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to kind of concentrate
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and kind of do a little scan of their body
to see whats kind of activated.
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I think keeps them present,
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without worrying about what’s going on
in the outside world.
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And they focus on those things,
because you feel
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I feel when you think of those things
then that’s when
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your body starts to transform itself
mentally and physically, right.
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So then we can see, oh yeah,
I am getting more definition in my arms.
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Right because,
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I’m thinking that, oh biceps, I’m not
thinking I’m moving with my pec muscle.
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you know?
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So then you begin to see that transformation,
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and then they become aware
and then like, oh,
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yeah, like I do feel like my hamstrings
when I’m pushing, I do feel my glutes.
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when I’m doing this. Okay good so we’ve learned
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I always like to say
like you’re repatterining the body.
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Right, to work more efficiently
and effectively.
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Why do you think so many people,
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and I really do think that most people,
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who are not engaging in regular exercise,
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maybe coming into Pilates
or any other exercise form
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are kind of fundamentally disconnected
from their bodies.
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They are not aware of their body in space.
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And this is maybe more of a philosophical
question or cultural question.
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Why do you think that is?
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I think people take for
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granted what their bodies
just do, you know, and again,
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You get up and you walk,
oh, that’s what my body does.
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It’s like, well, what
muscles are really helping you do that?
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You know, and it’s just like you know
if when someone
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pulls their back , or their low back goes out,
and it gets hurt, and their like
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I don’t know how that happened.
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Just all of the sudden,
I was just picking up a bag of groceries
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my back went out, and it’s like, well obviously
there was something going on beforehand.
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Obviously you weren’t doing something correct.
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You were obviously maybe lifting with your back
and not your glutes.
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Maybe you’re just hunching over,
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or you weren’t bending properly.
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And it’s like, I don’t know if it’s even
just in school, right.
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Doing health classes or whatever. P.E.
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they don’t teach us like these things.
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So there could be just
that lack of knowledge and awareness.
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And then,
you know, people always say too,
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I didn’t know I had those muscles.
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Well you have them, you just
haven’t used them properly.
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Pilates will make you find those muscles.
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I also think that we are
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we grow up in a culture of shame
around bodies.
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Like if you look at
you know, America in particular,
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you know, it’s founded, you know
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from more of a religious stance
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and that the body was something bad
not to be talked about.
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Taboo, terrible.
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And then you have all of the other
influences on top of that.
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Not only is the body bad,
but you need it to look perfect, right?
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And you have so much pressure
to make it look perfect.
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And if it’s not perfect,
it’s not good enough.
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And so I think a lot of people,
when they think about their bodies,
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especially if they don’t feel like
they’re measuring up
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to the standards of today, they close off,
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disconnect, just,
you know, are not in their bodies.
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They’re they’re
they’re dissociated from their bodies.
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Would you say that
that’s in general what you see with women?
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Do you also see that with men?
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It’s a
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combination, I would say more so women,
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and especially even the disconnect
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after pregnancy,
depending on if you have a C-section,
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or a natural birth,
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I feel like a lot of women who
have a C-section
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they come back and they’re numb,
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they don’t have any sensations
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so they can’t feel their abdominals engaging,
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and yet they have that scar tissue
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built up and and that’s limiting them from
engaging
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or having the sensation of stuff working.
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Because the medical provider hasn’t said
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well maybe, when you have after surgery,
and you’ve healed start massaging that scar,
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Just like any scar, when you have knee
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surgery you’re going to start manipulating it
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to break down the scar tissue.
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They don’t tell women
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break down the
scar tissue of your C-section incision.
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So that you can, it can be more pliable
so you can start to move more.
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And I also think too, with my one client with
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breast cancer.
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You know,
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I, the other day I was like, you know,
I think like said on subconscious level
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you’re trying to like still hide
that part of your body.
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A lot of her posture and movement
was always kind of just like tilted.
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And it was like, well, that’s a sign
that you had the breast cancer.
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It’s like, you know,
when you go on your walks, can you walk
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maybe thinking, I’m okay, I’m healed.
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I feel better about myself
and see how your body feels.
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So you have different muscle groups activate
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and and come back
and tell me like what you felt
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and she was like, yeah, it’s just like
I could feel different muscle groups.
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I could see, you know, I noticed that my
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presence and how I was walking
was a little different.
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And it was like,
okay, like, you know, they’re subconsciously
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I think you just try to, like,
hide with whatever pain.
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I think is so
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good that you are encouraging people
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to conceptualize their bodies
through their muscles
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and the functions that they provide,
the functions that they perform.
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And that’s a very different way of people
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really kind of thinking about
or looking at their bodies.
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I think a lot of women are conditioned
to think that they have to make
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their bodies attractive for the male
or even female gaze,
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and that that’s
the purpose of their bodies
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is to be attractive as opposed to
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I can bend over and pick this thing up.
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I can pull this thing, out of the,
you know, overhead
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compartment, on the airplane with ease.
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And I think when we conceptualize
our bodies as functional
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and able to perform and do things,
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it’s a whole different
like paradigm for people.
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And I think that that’s really empowering.
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Is that something that you, you know,
are emphasizing?
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Yes. Yeah.
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I want clients to feel that through
these movements
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that they do
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in Pilates is that you can take them and
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use them functionally.
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Your wanting your daily activities,
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your daily function of life to be easy.
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You don’t want to struggle to walk,
or get cereal out of the cabinet.
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You want it to be easy.
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And I think when you do Pilates it’s
giving you that foundation
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and it might not seem like,
oh this is exercise
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for grabbing something,
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but it is at the end of the day
it will help you.
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Yeah.
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And I think really trying to transfer
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our body’s worth outside of,
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you know, the gaze that comes toward us
and more toward
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what can we do with our bodies
and how powerful are our bodies,
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can help
recondition us out of that mentality,
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keep us from being dissociated
from our bodies.
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And really giving us a sense of gratitude
for what our bodies can do.
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And that’s what I’m really hoping,
you know, through this podcast.
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And, you know, connections
with people like Sarah that,
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you know, we can really help to transform
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how people think about their bodies
and their bodies worth.
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So what advice do you have for someone
who’s hesitant to start a fitness routine,
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especially if they’re struggling
with their mental health?
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Suggestion I would give to someone who
maybe is struggling
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with mental health, or just wanting to
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find something new.
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I would ask like your inner
circle of family and friends, see if any of them do
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any fitness routine that they do
and say like, okay, like, can I join you?
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You know.
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I’m kind of figuring out
what I want to do,
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you know, can I try that class with you?
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And if nobody has anything, then
I would suggest maybe like looking into,
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a group right where you can do
like maybe a group
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walking class, a hiking group.
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Or even a Pilates class,
which is amazing.
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So that you have something that is
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structured, right,
that same time, same day.
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There are also other people there.
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So then you can be social.
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And then you have
that accountability that is there.
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And so it’s just that one step.
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Okay, I did the one class.
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Now I do this I do this.
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And then eventually you can build and add
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more and explore. Exactly.
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So starting small.
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I really encourage people to not just,
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you know,
go New Year’s resolution on themselves.
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Like, even if you can’t make it
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to a group class or a hiking group
or things like that.
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YouTube is amazing because there’s
so many, like shorter forms of exercise.
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There’s plenty of people doing
Pilates on YouTube,
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or, Pilates any time.
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There’s all sorts of different
apps as well.
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So you can start small, do whatever
is like the tiniest amount that, you know,
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you can do regularly and attach it
to a behavior that you’re already doing.
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So that becomes your,
you know, attached habit to that.
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And that’s how you can start something
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slow, and especially if you are struggling
with your mental health,
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you may not have a lot of bandwidth,
you may not have a lot of time.
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You may not have a lot of energy,
even ten minutes.
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You know, just doing
little exercise snacks throughout the day
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can also be really, really helpful, for,
you know,
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when you’re really kind of struggling
and you don’t have a lot of energy.
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So wellness community is huge.
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There’s so much noise.
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We’ve seen such a rise
in different types of fitness trends.
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How do you see Pilates
standing out as a core element
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of a balanced wellness routine?
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I see Pilates standing out,
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with the balance,
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wellness routine.
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Due to, I feel
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the classic repertoire that is there.
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Because we have
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that foundation that we can pull from,
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and, from those exercises, of like over 600
exercises that Joseph created,
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contemporary we have done so many
variations on that.
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And so we do have those two
then bags you can pull from,
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And then using those exercises
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to adapt to individuals
needs, I feel is what keeps
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Pilates so consistent and relevant,
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in a wellness routine, plus, I mean
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It benefits everything, it helps
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all other activities you do,
enhances them even more.
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Absolutely.
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And I think you know Pilates
is seeing a, like a boom right now.
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It’s really become,
you know, just this wildly popular thing.
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But it’s been around
for a really long time.
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And I don’t think
a lot of people know that.
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And it had its own little mini boom,
I think in the
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early 2000, like the late 90s,
early 2000’s
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Right. Popular. Yeah.
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It like went down for some reason.
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And we have no idea why.
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Other trends came in. Yeah.
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But I don’t know if it’s just like that.
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The rise of like the reformer classes.
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In different like takes on it.
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And Tracy Mallett who was on our podcast,
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the first guest on our podcast
will say, you know,
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there’s so much Pilates
that is not Pilates out there.
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And it’s true, I think it’s
really important to do your homework
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and find out if it’s actual true Pilates
or if it’s an offshoot.
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There’s plenty of different offshoots.
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And that’s not to say that they’re bad,
they’re just not necessarily Pilates.
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But Pilates has been around a long time,
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and I think it’ll be here forever
because it’s incredible.
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So for you yourself,
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how do you maintain a sustainable approach
to wellness,
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both personally
and for your clients in a society
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that really focuses on quick fixes
or extreme methods?
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Methods?
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For myself, I do a lot of research.
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I am always researching
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trends or different modalities that
can help in your daily life.
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Then I make my little list and I see
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what’s happening
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so that when clients come to me
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or ask me questions like I have done
my homework.
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and I can
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say, well, you know, like this is okay,
you know, this is kind of it’s for,
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but, you know, like you can try it.
I never discourage anyone from trying something
they want to try.
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It is their own choice.
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I think that’s what I do
when I have to weigh the cost and say
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like, okay, well is it
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really something that will benefit me?
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What is this similar to?
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And then just take it from there. Yes.
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So speaking of quick
fixes, we’re definitely
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in the, weight loss medication
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craze, the, you know, revolution.
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And what we’re seeing
with a lot of people going on
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these medications is rapid
weight loss with rapid muscle loss.
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So how do you help
someone who may be interested
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in taking these medications,
support themselves
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and keep from, you know, having some of
these detrimental outcomes?
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That’s a good question [laughter]
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I think to be supportive and kind of understand
what their
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why their doctor maybe suggested them to go on.
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How long do they need to be on them
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and see what we need to do to balance out.
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Them either being on them or maybe
when they come off of them.
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Because sometimes a lot of these people
are not going to be on them forever,
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And then they’re going to gain all this weight back, you know, they’re not going to have
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A lot of them are losing the weight but
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they’re not replacing it with muscle.
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So it’s kinda like, okay,
what is your diet composed of?
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Do we need to make sure
we have the right amount of protein?
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Do we need to make sure
we’re doing the amount of
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resistance training, is needed for you
to maintain that muscle mass?
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So when you come
off of it, you’re not just
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going back and putting on fat,
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but you are coming back to a sustainable
weight that you can handle.
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I think it’s really, really difficult
because, you know, most doctors say
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that this is something that you’re going
to have to be on for life.
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And most people
do not stay on these medications.
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Even most people will go off of them
before their recommended dose,
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whether that’s because of side effects,
because of affordability.
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And so I think it’s so important
that anyone who’s considering that,
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especially more on the weight loss side,
as opposed to what it was originally
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designed for, was to help
people with, diabetes
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that you consider
having kind of a multi-team approach
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to taking those because, yeah, it’s
one thing to just get it from your doctor,
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get it from,
you know, someplace online and have zero
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help in terms of,
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you know, how
to try to stay on the medication,
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how to handle the side effects,
how to keep muscle mass, from,
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you know, being depleted,
all of these things.
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So a dietitian is helpful,
someone who’s helping you
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with your physical
fitness and your doctor,
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and if you need to,
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also, because there’s
a lot of mental health effects,
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getting some support in that area, too.
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So it’s kind of like there’s
a whole village that can help
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make that successful for you.
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But I also think, you know,
and I’ve been doing a lot of, just short
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form videos about how we make GLP
one ourselves naturally in our bodies
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and movement in particular,
especially strength
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training helps
you actually produce your own GLP one.
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So I think finding out if you’re not going
to be on that medication for life,
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how can you increase
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your own production of GLP one
so you don’t need to be on medication
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for life. Right.
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So I love that you are,
you know, really incorporating,
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you know, you might not have have worked
with people on those medications yet,
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but you know that muscle loss
is the biggest problem with that.
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And Pilates is amazing for the rebuilding
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of that muscle or maintaining your muscle.
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So when you look ahead,
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what are your goals for
the future of Ozean Pilates and Wellness,
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and how do you see the wellness
industry itself evolving?
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I see the wellness industry evolving
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I think there’s more technology
being utilized
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to help individuals.
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Like you were saying,
with the medications and stuff.
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I feel that testing needs to be
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more, more sophisticated
and better to help individuals and stuff
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so we can look and have a better baseline
just instead of having
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the cholesterol panel and you’re like,
oh, well, your cholesterol is high.
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And it’s like, okay, what
am I supposed to do with that?
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But getting them real more detailed
bloodwork.
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Scans to help the individual understand
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what’s going on,
and what kind of things they can do
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to help more preventative
health wise,
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I think that’s what really
lacks, especially in the U.S.
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is preventative
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health measures,
especially with physical fitness.
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So if you have like more of a baseline
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or like you need to work that bone density
because of x, y, z.
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They have these things and
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these tools that they can
then pull from and understand.
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So I feel in that
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aspect evolving in the wellness,
with technology
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and hopefully then also even in
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the medical profession, there can be
00:21:04:23 – 00:21:08:01
more knowledge
back and forth within the fitness
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industry, and the medical providers
with doctors.
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I think a lot of times doctors
are reluctant to say like,
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yeah, go do Pilates,
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it’s great.
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You know, they’re like, well, you know,
you hurt your
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knee, don’t do it, you. Know?
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Which is ridiculous.
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I think there’s there needs to be a shift
in knowledge
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change
or change in exchange in knowledge of
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like, okay,
well just because it can’t do one thing,
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doesn’t mean you should
tell them no.
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because a lotta people listen
more so to
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your medical doctor versus
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listening to your, you know,
your instructor.
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So that is how I feel the
wellness is evolving.
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And since for what Ozean
has in it’s goals,
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I would love to do retreats. Yes.
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Maybe in another country. Yes. [laughter]
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And collaborate more with people
in the fitness industry
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and maybe even outside the industry,
00:22:02:13 – 00:22:05:09
because I feel having that cross knowledge
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is great because everyone needs
fitness in their life.
00:22:09:08 – 00:22:13:17
And just, you know, I think
my own self, getting more knowledge
00:22:13:17 – 00:22:15:22
what I can do to expand in
00:22:15:22 – 00:22:21:09
the wellness services that I offer,
with like, the skin, and gut health and stuff
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I feel those things are important.
00:22:23:17 – 00:22:25:02
Yes. Oh my gosh.
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If you do a retreat,
you have to let me know,
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especially if it’s out of the country,
because that would be amazing.
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And I do think like we can integrate
Pilates
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more into the corporate world as well.
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And really kind of get education
out there for people. I don’t know
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if there just needs to be more
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research in Pilates, like there has been
done in yoga and strength training.
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When you research,
there’s much, and with Pilates
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it’s very limited, it’s like,
oh yeah, Pilates is great.
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It’s got it’s increasing.
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It’s like there’s like three like you know
00:23:01:15 – 00:23:02:15
websites you can go on.
00:23:02:15 – 00:23:06:13
when like strength training,
like hundreds, it says it’s so amazing.
00:23:06:13 – 00:23:08:06
And you’re like, what about Pilates?
00:23:08:06 – 00:23:09:11
I know, I know.
00:23:09:11 – 00:23:12:20
And we
just we need more research in general.
00:23:12:20 – 00:23:16:10
And I really hope that scientific research
doesn’t go the way of the dinosaur.
00:23:16:10 – 00:23:19:17
Please,
because we really need it, especially,
00:23:19:17 – 00:23:21:14
when it comes to women’s health.
00:23:21:14 – 00:23:23:18
We really want to keep that up.
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And if we can get more researchers
out there to explore
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the actual physical benefits
and mental health benefits of Pilates,
00:23:31:20 – 00:23:35:06
then it just,
you know, justifies us even more.
00:23:35:06 – 00:23:39:05
We already know it, but science
just needs to catch up with that.
00:23:39:05 – 00:23:40:07
Okay you guys.
00:23:40:07 – 00:23:44:05
So Sarah, how do people contact
you and work with you?
00:23:44:05 – 00:23:47:10
What are your handles?
What’s your website?
00:23:47:19 – 00:23:49:14
Lay it on everybody.
00:23:49:14 – 00:23:51:04
You can reach me on
00:23:51:04 – 00:23:55:21
my web site, which is
Ozean Pilates Wellness dot com.
00:23:55:21 – 00:23:58:23
And you can reach me on, Instagram, Facebook,
00:23:58:23 – 00:24:02:20
YouTube, LinkedIn,
all those lovely platforms.
00:24:03:11 – 00:24:06:06
The handle is Ozean
Pilates Wellness
00:24:07:17 – 00:24:09:15
Yes, that’ll be in the show notes.
00:24:09:15 – 00:24:13:13
You can click on that
if you are in the Los Angeles area
00:24:13:13 – 00:24:16:13
and you want to work with Sarah,
I highly recommend it.
00:24:16:14 – 00:24:19:19
I do also online,
so you don’t have to be just in L. A..
00:24:19:19 – 00:24:22:21
Yes. Excellent. I have clients all over
I love it.
00:24:23:07 – 00:24:25:11
Thank you so much for joining us, Sarah.
00:24:25:11 – 00:24:26:08
You’re amazing.
00:24:26:08 – 00:24:30:04
A wealth of information,
and we really just want to spread
00:24:30:04 – 00:24:33:04
the message of Pilates for everyone.
00:24:33:04 – 00:24:35:17
It is not an elitist sport.
00:24:35:17 – 00:24:40:02
It is for anyone you know who can be
on the equipment or be on the mat.
00:24:40:11 – 00:24:43:23
And there are so many incredible
health benefits.
00:24:44:21 – 00:24:47:21
And we just encourage you to try it out.
00:24:47:23 – 00:24:51:09
Thank you so much, everyone,
for joining the ANEW Insight podcast.
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