Blog & Insights
Discover practical tips, movement wisdom, and encouragement for women navigating midlife and beyond. Heather shares Pilates guidance, wellness strategies, and personal reflections to help you move better, feel stronger, and live fully.
Stress, anxiety or trauma? What's the difference?
If you are alive, still breathing and have got half a clue about what's been going on in the past year you are most likely suffering some of the symptoms of trauma. Trauma is not something you can talk away, drink away, relax away or distract yourself to avoid.
Ditch the Kegels..an alternative approach to the pelvic floor
One in four women has some type of pelvic floor disorder. While those statistics only represent the presence of prolapsed organs or incontinence, there are many other issues that can be affected by a dysfunctional pelvic floor.
Mouth Matters
When I was eleven, I was marched off to the orthodontist. I spent hours in a mildew smelling, dark wood-panelled office, on the corner of South Park and Spring Garden in Halifax. I don't know whether I really needed braces, but braces I got. I didn't seem to have a say in the matter.
Vitamin D...are you getting enough?
I've been listening to a number of podcasts lately and the interesting thing that's come out of statistics concerning people who are hospitalized due to Covid-19 is that they have low levels of Vitamin D.
Free Your Feet!
The foot is one of the most neglected parts of our bodies. It's the foundation of our structure and yet apart from slapping on shoes and perhaps a coat of paint once in a while we do very little to attend to them.
This too will pass
This isn't going to last forever!
That's what I keep telling myself as the looming winter months stretch out before me like a highway blanketed with freshly fallen snow.
Have you got a bad shoulder?
If you are like many of my clients you have one shoulder that has been labelled "the bad shoulder". I always have a giggle when people call a part of their body "bad".