Postmodern Pilates

Postmodern Pilates Jamey Garner Powers has taught Pilates, yoga, dance, breath awareness, and mindful movement for 25+ years.

She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Dance, a Comprehensive STOTT Pilates Certificate, and a certification in Classical Yoga and Healthy Living. Jamey Powers is an experienced movement and mindfulness teacher (Pilates, yoga, dance, breath). She is a comprehensively trained and Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher and certified yoga instructor. She has maintained a practice as a teacher of Pilates, yoga and body-mind awareness since 2002, working with a variety of populations and ages. Her research and training in meditation and mindfulness nourishes her enthusiasm for the body-mind connection and the pleasure of embodiment, concepts that inform her teaching practice. Jamey is comprehensively trained in STOTT PILATES (Matwork, Reformer, Cadillac, Chair, Barrels, Injury and Special Populations). Firmly grounded in STOTT principles of Pilates, she infuses other schools of Pilates thought into her teaching practice. She served as a Master Trainer for Club Pilates in 2018-2019, traveling and leading comprehensive Pilates teacher trainings. Jamey has a deep appreciation for yoga, contemplative practices, mindfulness and the healing arts. Having studied a range of codified yoga techniques since 1997, she was guided to India twice while in graduate school, researching and participating in Hindu rituals. Upon completion of her graduate work, Jamey studied classical yoga at an ashram and received a certification for teaching yoga. Her movement technique is influenced by years training as a dancer, specifically ballet, modern and postmodern dance. Methods such as yoga, Pilates, Alexander Technique, Release Technique and Body-Mind Centering influence her approach to movement education. Jamey attended Oklahoma State University, traveled to Kenya with the School for International Training, and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Dance at Arizona State University. Certifications:
Master of Fine Arts in Dance (MFA)
National Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT)
STOTT Pilates
Sivananda Classical Yoga and Healthy Living
Barre Above
TRX
Trigger Point

09/09/2026

Pilates Core Exercise with a Small Ball: Earthquake

Earthquake is a seated Pilates ball exercise for developing abdominal strength, core control, breath awareness and the body-mind connection.

Place a small Pilates ball at your sacrum—right where you would grow a bunny-rabbit tail.

Inhale as you lengthen your spine into neutral. Gently nod your head, lengthening through C1 and C2 to create space at the top and back of your neck.

Maintaining a neutral spine, hinge backward until you feel a slight tremor in your abdominals—the earthquake. Make sure you haven’t extended your spine or backbended over the ball.

Draw your lower abdominals in and up. Corset your abdominals as though you were pulling on the laces of a corset.

Inhale, breathing three-dimensionally into your rib cage—north, south, east and west.
Exhale as you pull on the laces of your corset.

Inhale, stay.

Exhale, return to seated—and repeat.

This mindful Pilates core exercise combines neutral-spine alignment, deep abdominal engagement and three-dimensional breathing to create greater awareness, control and support.

Pilates and mindful movement instruction with Jamey Garner Powers of Postmodern Pilates.

09/03/2026

Jamey Garner Powers shares an approach to breath awareness through Postmodern Pilates.

“You’re in a comfortable position and breathing, focusing on your inhale and your exhale. Just noticing, are you inhaling as much time as you are exhaling? Is your inhale shorter or longer than your exhale? Begin to experience that, to notice it.”

This simple breathing exercise invites you to observe your natural breath without judgment or correction. Breath awareness supports mindfulness, intentional movement, and the body-mind connection at the heart of Pilates.

What do you experience? What do you notice?

08/26/2026

🌬️ Breath
🧠 Concentration
🎛️ Control
🎯 Centering
✨ Precision
🌊 Flow

We start with Breath 💨

Jamey Garner Powers guides you through a simple breathing exercise for breath awareness, mindfulness, and stress relief.

Without changing your breathing, count how many natural breaths you take in 30 seconds.

How many breaths did you count?

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