Movement · Pilates for Beginners
Swimming
Starting position
Lying on your stomach with arms lengthened overhead reaching long. Legs are extended, laterally rotated and hip width distance apart. Ankles are in plantar flexion, toes pointed. Spine and pelvis are in neutral.
How to do it
Inhale: Lengthening the crown of the head away from the tailbone.
Exhale: Maintaining neutral spine and pelvis lift right leg off the mat, simultaneously lifting left arm up off the floor.
Continue a smooth breath of inhale, exhale as you alternate legs, in a swimming motion.
15 - 20 repetitions
Be mindful
- Keep movement small, keeping the pelvis stabilized in neutral at all times.
- The lower back should not feel any kind of pressure or tension.
The practice beneath it all
When the mind needs somewhere to land
Everything in this wing points, in the end, to the same place — the breath, and the nervous system beneath it. It is why I built SOVA: a quiet companion for the moments in between.
- Today — a daily practice that aligns you before the day pulls you a dozen directions.
- Companion — a place to process any feeling, even the happy ones.
- Pages — a soft place to set your thoughts down and out of your head.
- The House — rooms of calm to step into, whenever you need one.