KInney Fontecchio Movement/ABsolutions Pilates Studio

KInney Fontecchio Movement/ABsolutions Pilates Studio A studio for peri and menopausal women to address needs for strength, mobility, bone building, balance, and fall prevention.

Specialized training in osteoporosis, neurological conditions, scoliosis, and pelvic floor.

Using the ball to challenge coordination and balance, build dynamic stability, find fluidity and ease of movement, creat...
09/09/2026

Using the ball to challenge coordination and balance, build dynamic stability, find fluidity and ease of movement, create propulsion and weight shift through the lower limbs

Labor Day Legs! I worked the heck out of Kirkland in standing work today. So much creative and good work you can do with...
09/07/2026

Labor Day Legs! I worked the heck out of Kirkland in standing work today. So much creative and good work you can do with the apparatus if the goals are clear.

Changed the Sun Room part of the studio
09/07/2026

Changed the Sun Room part of the studio

Client had expressed how her quads felt off, weak. One knee has been replaced and the other not able to take load withou...
08/24/2026

Client had expressed how her quads felt off, weak. One knee has been replaced and the other not able to take load without pain when she started. Anyway, this is what I did with her this morning to ‘wake up’ those quads and get building those brain body pathways and get her brain to trust the capability of her quads.

Throwing your shoulders back isn’t opening your chest! I like this safe and focused version of the traditional door stre...
08/20/2026

Throwing your shoulders back isn’t opening your chest! I like this safe and focused version of the traditional door stretch. And then let’s take this a bit further into our movement practice.

So think about the chest stretch needed to do Spinal Motions in GYROKINESIS or exercises like Chest Expansion Or Standing Long Back Stretches on the Cadillac. People just might flare the ribs or just wrench the shoulders back and not access all the bone and muscle movement needed.

A reminder that your shoulder girdle is comprised of three sets of bones: scapula ( shoulder blades), clavicle ( collar bones), and the humerus ( the upper arm bone). They all work together in a little dance and respond accordingly depending on what you are doing. So to open the front, the blades in the back must move ( in this case retract), and then the collar bones expand outwardly and externally rotate. Use the idea of these dancing bones. Take note of were there is delay, restriction, or missed timing. Also take note of areas that have more range. Get in your mind’s eye and send focus to the dance and try to find harmony, congruency, and coordination.

On top of thinking about the rhythm of the shoulder girdle bones, I also like to add in the concept of the 5th line. In this case, going from the muscle attachments at the sternum, across the chest, through the shoulder joints, along the upper arm bones, through the elbow joints, along the lower arm bones, through the wrists, then out through the middle fingers. How many times have you seen clients just throw their arms out and wrench them back but nothing changes in the chest? And the chin juts forward? Too many, I’m sure. So imagine those muscles moving and stretching along that 5th Line and all the bones in the shoulder girdle and arms responding. Chest AND arm working in unison to create the expansion.

And then this brings us to a third concept I really like from the Spinal Essentials Series in GYROKINESIS: the idea that the thoracic spine is the root of the arms. Where do your shoulder blades live? On top of the rib cage which attaches to your sternum in the front and the spine on the back in the thoracic area. Look in the mirror and hold you arms up and out to the side and you see how they come out of that thoracic area. I like the idea of the arms having roots. Anyway, just another visual and awareness that may help you or your clients to move the arms and spine with more ease, fluidity, and rhythm.

Helping a client rebuild from a knee replacement and another knee that was very glitchy and not able to take load very w...
08/17/2026

Helping a client rebuild from a knee replacement and another knee that was very glitchy and not able to take load very well and hurt when she started with me. Her goal was to not have to replace that knee as well.

Today we were doing squats at the Swedish bar working through memories of this movement causing pain and the strategies she would use to avoid causing pain in that left knee.

The knee can take the load now without pain but the memories and compensations used for years still linger

Focus on the thoracic spine: breath work, mobility, shoulder girdle work as prep for Spinal Motions and a few other GK e...
08/12/2026

Focus on the thoracic spine: breath work, mobility, shoulder girdle work as prep for Spinal Motions and a few other GK exercises. Looking for more shared load of the vertebrae and better segmentation, finding balance so neck and low back aren’t taking the hit

Using the MELT balls and other exercises to wake up arthritic hands, work on thumb joint atrophy, and prepare the grip t...
08/10/2026

Using the MELT balls and other exercises to wake up arthritic hands, work on thumb joint atrophy, and prepare the grip to do some Fletcher Towel exercises

Using the Tower Set Up to provide a loaded inversion and to provide different input for organization especially related ...
08/08/2026

Using the Tower Set Up to provide a loaded inversion and to provide different input for organization especially related to feelings of constantly tight hamstrings. We didn’t do the Tower exercise but worked on easy back and forth flow of bending and straightening the legs. More like a constant buoyancy instead of dropping into extreme bend and pushing too hard and compensating to get fully straight legs. Several sets of this increasing range and maintaining a smooth transition up and down. It eventually lead to the picture you see which had previously been unachievable with trying to force the legs straight. Her brain and nervous system just needed the load from below, easy ranges to start, and some time to organize.

Tools to awaken the foot to brain connection
07/28/2026

Tools to awaken the foot to brain connection

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Virginia Beach, VA
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