09/06/2026
These basic Mat and Reformer exercises have hidden depths ✨When we bring more attention and intention to them, they can completely change how our hips move and feel.
It’s a little tricky to spot in the videos, but see if you can find these tiny micro movements between your pelvis and thigh bone. 👀
As the leg lifts, the sit bones gently open and move away from the thigh bone. As the leg lowers, they settle back into place. Rather than holding the pelvis rigidly still, it moves subtly within the exercise. This helps the thigh bone glide more freely in the hip socket, improving mobility and creating healthier movement patterns.
We then take the same idea into the foot straps, using the overball under the pelvis to help you feel and connect to the action 🟣
And then into the delicious Long Spine... where the focus shifts from simply doing the exercise to truly creating the movement from the bones of the body. This time the sit bones go towards the thigh bone to create the roll of the pelvis enabling the roll all the way over with control, precision and awareness rather than momentum.
💫 The result?
• Better hip mobility
• More control
• Greater body awareness
• Stronger connection to your movement
• Exercises that feel completely different—in the best possible way
Sometimes the smallest movements create the biggest changes. ✨
