Lauren's Vibe Pilates

Lauren's Vibe Pilates Lauren is a Balanced Body Educator, Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher, Experienced Yoga Teacher 500, Author, and Seasoned Movement Professional.

She specializes in Teacher Training, Pilates Apparatus, and helping you optimize your movement!

Join us June 27–28 for Online Anatomy for Movement Professionals.Discover how experiential anatomy can deepen your own p...
06/01/2026

Join us June 27–28 for Online Anatomy for Movement Professionals.

Discover how experiential anatomy can deepen your own practice and enhance your teaching.

Through movement-based exploration, we’ll bring anatomical concepts and biomechanics to life, helping you better understand how the body moves and functions.

This course also fulfills the anatomy requirement for Balanced Body teacher training.

Scan the QR code or use the registration link in bio.
Melissa Kakavas

04/10/2026

Progression builds skill. From foundation to integration. 🌀

This week explored lateral torso strength and side-lying stability across some of the apparatus:

Mat → Tower → Wunda Chair → Pilates Arc

🔹 Same focus.
🔹 Increased demand.
🔹 Greater precision.

This is how skill is built—through progression, not random variation.

If you’re ready to take your teaching to the next level, join me next weekend for Mat 2, in-person at Remedy Movement.

02/20/2026

The Hundred is foundational for a reason. 🍥

It builds deep abdominal strength, challenges the hip flexors, and integrates the arms into the trunk so the whole system works as one.

On the Wunda Chair, sitting tall on the seat adds another layer:
✨ Balance
✨ Lumbopelvic control
✨ Upper–lower body connection

The dancers must stabilize from the pelvis while maintaining breath rhythm and arm precision — a true coordination challenge.

And yes… it builds heat quickly. 🔥

Strong fundamentals create strong technicians. 💃🏻 Balanced Body, Inc.

02/17/2026

Continuing our exploration of the posterior chain and longitudinal system on the Reformer. 🌀

Overhead Press and Swan on the Long Box are not simply extension exercises — they are opportunities to assess and train scapular organization under load.

Notice:
🔹 How the scapulae upwardly rotate and stabilize during the press
🔹 How thoracic extension is supported without lumbar compression
🔹 How the posterior shoulder, spinal extensors, and hip extensors integrate into one continuous line of support

As teachers, our work is not to cue “lift higher,” but to observe how force transfers through the system.

Extension should feel expansive — not compressed. Stability should precede range.

Tomorrow, we’ll take this same principle to the Wunda Chair. 💙

If you’re ready to deepen your understanding of how movement principles transfer across apparatus, join me at the end of the month for the online Movement Principles + Pilates Essentials course. It’s foundational work that elevates everything you teach.

Registration 🔗 below

https://www.pilates.com/class/balanced-body-movement-principles-pilates-essentialsonline-192701/
Remedy Movement

02/17/2026

Posterior Chain. Longitudinal System. Integrated Strength.

This week’s focus is posterior chain activation and the longitudinal system — the fascial and muscular connections that link the calves, hamstrings, sacrotuberous ligament, thoracolumbar fascia, spinal extensors, and up through the shoulder girdle.

Why train this in Pilates?

Because efficient movement isn’t just about “core strength.” It’s about how force transfers from the ground up. When the posterior chain is awake and responsive, we improve:

🔹Upright posture
🔹 Hip extension power
🔹 Spinal support in extension
🔹 Shoulder organization
🔹 And whole-body coordination

Today’s sequence begins on the foam roller:

🌀Scapula Glides (Pre-Pilates)
Develops scapular mobility, proprioception, and refined glenohumeral rhythm. We’re training awareness before load.

🦢Swan on the Roller
Builds controlled spinal extension while strengthening the back extensors, hamstrings, and gluteal complex — reinforcing the longitudinal sling from heels to head.

Tomorrow, we take this same principle to the Reformer. Same system. New context. Increased challenge.

If you want to understand why these progressions matter — not just how to perform them — join me for Movement Principles & Pilates Essentials online at the end of the month.

This course is foundational for Balanced Body certification and for teachers who want to elevate the intelligence behind their programming.

🔵 Spots are limited.
🔗 Registration link https://www.pilates.com/class/balanced-body-movement-principles-pilates-essentialsonline-192701/
Balanced Body, Inc.

02/14/2026

Fall in love with the fundamentals. 💘

Roses are red.
Violets are blue.
Strong movement patterns start with the basics — it’s true.

Before the choreography.
Before the Wunda Chair magic.
Before the complex progressions…

We build control.
We refine alignment.
We train precision.

Fundamentals are not “beginner.”
They are foundational.

This Valentine’s Day, fall in love with the work that makes everything else possible.

Strong. Stable. Supported.

That’s the vibe. ❤️ Balanced Body, Inc.

02/11/2026

What looks advanced is simply well-prepared. 🌀

This Wunda Chair flow didn’t start on the chair.
It began with Movement Principles.

🔹 Pelvifemoral mechanics.
🔹 Scapular organization.
🔹Load management.

First explored on the Mat with pre-Pilates essentials.
Then supported on the Reformer.
Finally expressed with control on the Chair.

Built. Not rushed.
Principles → Strength → Flow.

If you want to understand how to layer movement instead of just teaching choreography, join me and Remedy Movement for our online Movement Principles + Pilates Essentials Course at the end of the month.

Spots are limited.
Registration link is in my bio. 💫 Balanced Body, Inc.

02/09/2026

Before complexity comes clarity. 💡

Complex movement is only as strong as its foundation.

This week, I’m building toward a Wunda Chair flow— starting with pelvifemoral and lumbopelvic rhythm, organization, and intention.
Movement Principles first. Always.

🎥 In this clip, the progression includes:
• Femur Folds (passive)
• Leg Slides
• Femur Fallouts
• Femur Circles
• Femur Rotation

Simple? Yes.
Foundational? Absolutely.
Essential for complex, powerful movement? Always. Balanced Body, Inc. Remedy Movement

02/06/2026

Building the foundation of Pilates through Movement Principles + Pilates Essentials allows us to go deeper into the method—embodying advanced work with greater ease, economy, & efficiency. 🌀

🎥 In the first clip, I’m doing abdominal curls with roller support and an aligner between the inner thighs. This foundational exercise builds abdominal strength while refining inner thigh awareness and organization.

🎥 In the second clip, that strength and awareness are carried into Neck Pull from the mat series, adding spinal articulation in preparation for the final exercise.

🎥 The third clip shows Back Arch and Bridge on the East Coast Step Barrel—an advanced exercise that is only accessible when the fundamentals are truly embodied.

Advanced work doesn’t start with advanced exercises. It starts with Movement Principles + Pilates Essentials. 💙

🛑 Safety note: Due to the height of the barrel and the position of the head in the final exercise, Back Arch and Bridge is not recommended on the Pilates Arc. Balanced Body, Inc.

02/02/2026

Loving Pilates, to me, means listening first—then moving. 💙

🌀 Tuning into your breath.
🌀 Scanning your body.
🌀 Noticing your alignment.
🌀 Setting an intention for your practice.

This is where Movement Principles + Pilates Essentials begins. Functional + Foundational.
Tools that support success in both practice and teaching.

If you’re ready to deepen your practice, or you’re on the Balanced Body certification path, join me and Remedy Movement at the end of the month for this online course.

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