HeyMonicaB: A Blooming Resource on Ayurveda

I am taking a Pilates Mat course to aquire the required CEC’S (continuing ed.) to keep my ACE certification (personal training). And I had NO idea that the foundation of Pilates is the connection of body and mind to balance the physical body! I’d never considered Pilates because I have always done yoga. But I had no idea that the philosophies were so similar – in fact, I thought Pilates skipped the “mind” part of the exercise and that’s why there seems to be a mini rivalry between yoga and pilates. But not true (now I have no idea why the mini rivalry…maybe I will learn the differences as I go).

In fact, the more I read, the more I thought, “It’s too bad Mr. Pilates didn’t know about Ayurveda! He would dig it.”

So in my little Pilates booklet, there was an interesting blurb that said, “The body is designed as an ‘interlocking chain’ and any structural misalignment or imbalance will then create misalignments and imbalances in other areas of the body.”

Um, Yeaa-uh!! I was so glad to read this because that’s what happens! So, keep that little blurb in mind. One thing affects the other in our minds, bodies, and souls. Just like an interlocking chain or like a freeway system. If there is an accident on the freeway, the whole things stops, then traffic gets rerouted, and  side streets get jammed causing heaviness there. The coggs are all messed up. Same happens in our bodies.

By making right choices we can keep the coggs to a minimum. It all starts with the mind, then the body follows suit. Even Mr. Pilates agrees!