Midwood Pilates & Yoga, Charlotte, NC, 28205.
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About Midwood Pilates
Pilates for Any Body and Any Age
Pilates helps students build core strength and develop proper body alignment, flexibility, balance, and fluidity. Students also learn to incorporate breath and mental focus into their practice. Midwood Pilates instructor Becky Tin enjoys creating sequences that reinforce basic alignment principles while challenging students to move beyond their comfort zones. While Pilates principles supply the foundation, Becky sometimes reaches to other genres of movement such as Tai Chi or Yoga, adding a creative touch to her Pilates sequencing.
Get Ready to be Reformed
Created by Joseph Pilates, the Reformer has been used for decades to help students elongate their spine while fostering core strength, stability and coordination. Exercises can be adapted to assist with rehab from surgery and to accommodate pregnancy, aging joints or disability. Similarly, practices can be intensified on the Reformer to build hard core strength and endurance. Did you know that you can engage in low impact, aerobic jumping while lying on the Reformer? It's fun and energizing!
Finding Breath, Movement, and Stillness in Yoga
Becky enjoys teaching Flow Slow & Stretch Yoga where the focus is on breath, alignment, fluid movement, and static holds. The practice is accompanied by music and ends with stretching and meditation. She also offers Yin Yoga in a dim-lit studio where students find stillness as they give in to the pull of gravity in various reclining or seated postures. The practice of Yin helps to stretch and loosen hardened fascia and lubricate joints so that the body can work towards more optimal alignment.