Pilates Plus
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✨ Pilates Plus
Mindful Movement for a Smoother Ride Through Life
When your brain and body are headed in different directions, everything feels harder.
Aches and pains? Yep.
Wobbly balance? Familiar.
That nagging sense that “this isn’t how I used to feel”? We get it.
Pilates Plus is a twice-weekly movement practice that gets your mind and body talking again. Gently. Intelligently. With just the right amount of challenge to feel your body wake up, without knocking you sideways for the rest of the day.
🌿 You’ll Leave Class Saying…
“Why didn’t I learn this stuff sooner?”
Because when you move with awareness and intelligence, your body starts to organize itself.
You’ll balance better on one leg.
You’ll float rather than trundle when you walk.
You’ll feel pulled together, rather than held together by hope and ibuprofen.
Most of all, you’ll restore your rightful attitude of hope and optimism. Because the future feels better when your body does.
🧠 What is Pilates Plus?
A unique blend of three powerful movement modalities:
1. Pilates
The gold standard of intelligent strength. Joe Pilates was a visionary—he knew your spine needed to move, and he built a system to help it do just that. We’ll use Pilates to build support, control, and strength in all the right places.
2. Slings Myofascial Training
Where Pilates, yoga, and myofascial release intersect. We train your tissues to be resilient and responsive—because softness and strength go hand in hand.
3. Somatics
This is the brainy bit. Where how you move is just as important as what you move. We’ll work with awareness, curiosity, and attention—because what you pay attention to shapes how you feel.
This isn’t follow-along fitness. It’s movement education.
A chance to get back in the driver’s seat of your own body.
🧭 Program Details
🗓 Starts: Tuesday, September 2
📍 Where: St. John’s Parish Hall (Lunenburg) or online via Zoom
🕙 When: Tuesdays & Fridays at 10:00 AM Atlantic
🎥 Replay available if you can’t attend live for seven days
$ 147.00 for eight classes
Each month, we’ll explore a new theme:
➡️ Shoulders | Feet | Hips | Core | and more…
💡 Come for a Month at a Time
This is not a drop-in class. It’s a guided experience, with progression and purpose.
You’ll be part of a community of smart, curious women who want to:
✓ Move better
✓ Understand how their body works
✓ Live without constant pain
✓ And stop wasting time on generic approaches
🎟 Start September off with purpose !
👉 Two classes per week
👉 In-person, online, or by replay
👉 Ongoing monthly enrollment
Join the September Series →
⚡ Why Pilates Plus Works (When Other Stuff Hasn’t)
You don’t need another workout. You need a smarter one.
One that:
Respects your body’s history and potential
Integrates the latest in movement science
Helps you feel more like yourself again
This isn’t just fitness. It’s future-proofing your body.
Because you still have places to go, things to do, and art to make.
Maybe you’ve been led to believe everybody else knows more about your body than you do. But there’s a little voice inside of you that knows that’s not entirely true.
That’s the part of you that hungers for exercise that makes sense, so you can be the #1 expert on your body.
When you have better information and exercise practices that heal rather than hurt, you can make better choices for yourself.
When we know better we do better.
Familiar but different
Come feel the difference that getting to know and befriending your body makes. By learning to work with rather than against yourself, you’ll learn to:
Move YOUR spine so it feels limber again
Rebalance your hips so you can walk, run or cycle all day and get up and do it again
Free up tension in your shoulders that allows you to garden, swim or dance the night away
Fix your feet so you have rock solid balance
That’s what we do differently here
Teach the how. Over and over so you get it!
In many different ways so you can learn to control your movement and your body.
Although we never do the same class twice, many of the movement patterns are taught using a variety of techniques and repeated through the teaching cycle.
So you might not “get it” right away. But after a number of times being exposed to the same movement question, a lightbulb will go off in your head and you’ll understand.
When that happens, it’s a hallmark moment where you know you can take back control of your life.
HDM classes are focused movement lessons that teach you to become aware of your body blindspots, and then teach skills to release, reset and restore functional movement and agency of your muscles, joints and your life.
So you can:
✓ Reduce pain and prevent injury
✓ Recover or restore full body mobility
✓ Get stronger from head to toe
✓ Improve mind body awareness for more rock solid balance
✓ Reduce stress and work with rather than against your tension
Why?
Traditional approaches to Exercise, Yoga, or Pilates often place value on doing more, longer, and harder. Classes are a whirlwind of moving from pose to pose without time to settle in and allow the body to find the correct alignment your body needs for your brain and body to work in harmony.
Here we focus on quality of movement, not quantity. You won’t do as many exercises, but you’ll do them with more focus and more intensity, resulting in a deeper sense of discovery about your body, your mind, and your self.
How?
Movement lessons are choreographed from exercises derived from over thirty years of study of Pilates, Yoga, Myofascial release, and Strength training.
The difference is a somatic approach which uses blocks, balls, and bands to create support and improved mind-body perception. This process is called proprioception, which is a fancy word for being able to feel what we are doing.
Who is it good for?
Anybody that has a body and wants to feel great living in it!
When & Where?
Classes are offered online.
Private coaching is also available in a fully equipped Pilates Studio near Lunenburg, Nova Scotia or by Zoom.
Upcoming events
Don’t miss out on a class that your body would be excited to attend.
Live classes, and a vast library of recordings, are available through my online studio at https://heatherdennisonline.heymarvelous.com.
Current schedule until August 31st | New sessions begin September
