CoreFocused, LLC

07/29/2025

I enjoyed an insightful Whole Body Pelvic Health workshop taught by UK Pilates Master instructor, Claire Sparrow, founder of Claire Sparrow Pilates Claire Sparrow Pilates who was hosted by Nice&Tall Pilates studio. Nice&Tall is located in the same building and the same 2nd floor where Joseph Pilates had his studio for more than 40 years, at The Van Dyck Studio building for artists built in 1889, located at 939 8th Avenue in NYC.

07/29/2025

I greatly enjoyed a trip in time and place to Joseph Pilates original studio location at 939 8th Avenue this weekend. The building, The Van Dyck Studio, was built in 1889 as an artist space. Joseph Pilates occupied the 2nd floor from 1926 to his death in 1967. The Van Dyck Studio building is situated .3 mile from Carnegie Hall and .8 mile from George Balanchine's first location for the School of American Ballet which opened on Madison Avenue in 1934. Here is a great historical article on the Van Dyck Studio building: https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/tag/van-dyck-studio-building-939-eighth-avenue/

11/16/2024

https://go.clairesparrowpilates.co.uk/seven-days-seven-minutes-pelvic-floor-challenge Claire Sparrow, founder of Whole Body Pelvic Health, is offerring a free November sampler of 7 minute exercises that address one's whole body in relationship to one's pelvic health. The sampler includes Breathing, Release, Posture & range of motion plus coordination.

Your pelvic health matters! Strengthen your pelvic floor in just 7 minutes a day with our Free 7-Day Mini Course. Feel empowered, strong, and hopeful by week's end!

11/07/2024

This is a great visual model of how breath resonates through the body allowing natural expansion and compression while calming the nervous system. Habituallly pulling one's belly in too tightly can interfere with the synchroniztion of the respiratory and pelvic diaphragms resulting in a paradoxical breathing pattern which can agitate one's nervous system, possiblly cause pelvic floor/pelvic diaphragm dysfunctions and interfere with digestion. When the breath resonates through the body, one can actually sense very subtle movement in the pelvic bones in addition to the more pronounced ribcage bone movement.

08/02/2024

I am truly enjoying watching the athleticism and positive will & energy of the 2024 Olympics. I am sharing a fantastic pictorial post from PILATAY of the many parallels with Pilates and many sports.

12/07/2023

CoreFocused, LLC celebrated its 18th Anniversary today by adding a Contrology Arm Chair. This little chair addresses the stabilizer muscles of the shoulder joint while the student keeps an uplifted posture. CoreFocused, LLC offers both a blend of contemporary and classic Pilates instruction with a focus of joint integrity and biomechanics. The studio offers a suite of traditional Pilates apparatus including 2 Reformers, 2 Combo Chairs, 1 Cadillac, 1 Tower, an assortment of barrels including the Ladder Barrel, plus the Pedipole, and now an Arm Chair. The styles of equipment in the studio include Stott, Gratz, and Balanced Body.

09/18/2023

During a recent trip to Amsterdam, I could finally visualize the story behind Joseph Pilates’ magic circle being fashioned utilizing the metal band of a beer keg.

04/30/2023

CoreFocused Pilates of Hollis just received shipment from Merrithew for updates to the Cadillac and V2Max Tower/reformer. The Cadillac now sports a new surface and the V2Max reformer has a new carriage and mat converter.

12/06/2022

CoreFocused, LLC is celebrating 17 years in business today! With gratitude, I thank all the clients I have had the opportunity to work with improving their movement patterns through the Pilates method of exercise.

09/30/2022

Happy Beautiful time of the year from CoreFocused Pilates in New Hampshire. There is a hint of changing colors in the leaves in southern NH.

09/20/2022

I just submitted my continuing education credits and renewed my NCPT certification. Since 2014 I have been recognized as a comprehensively trained Pilates instructor by the Pilates Method Alliance and the Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher organizations.

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