{"id":43413,"date":"2018-06-12T14:21:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/our-feet\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:17:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T06:17:04","slug":"our-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/our-feet\/","title":{"rendered":"Our feet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Though most distant part of our bodies, they play an impor\u00adtant part in our postural habits, and therefor also in our breathing patterns. Here is part my work\u00adshop for Pilates teachers, that is focused on working the feet. <\/p>\n\n

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While working with our clients, we often get so busy with the core, the back, and the limbs, that we forget to have a look at the feet. Yet how people carry them\u00adselves on the feet will be of signif\u00adi\u00adcant influ\u00adence on how they align the rest of their bodies, and vice versa. The place\u00adment of the pelvis on the legs, the length\u00adening of the central axis, the balancing of the head on the spine, it will all be reflected in the way we stand on our feet. A dropped arch in the foot can often be influ\u00adenced by simply length\u00adening the central axis. <\/p>\n\n

Raising the foot-aware\u00adness of the client can prove to make huge differ\u00adences in how they carry them\u00adselves through life. When prob\u00adlems arise in the feet, we often see our clients come back from the podother\u00ada\u00adpist with new insoles, but without exer\u00adcises. <\/p>\n\n

How can we as pilates teachers encourage our clients to take off their socks, and get them inter\u00adested in their feet?<\/p>\n\n

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Well, that is easy: let them expe\u00adri\u00adence the differ\u00adence! Exer\u00adcise with one foot first, and let them stand, walk, balance, and expe\u00adri\u00adence the differ\u00adence. <\/p>\n\n

While working with the feel the use of pops proofs to be very helpful. I have a range of different balls, theP\u00adi\u00adlates foot corrector, toe corrector, elastic bands, and the Mini\u2019s. Working with the Mini\u2019s you have a playful tool, that will wake up the senses and increase the sensi\u00adtivity towards stance and balance. Balance is very impor\u00adtant for your clients, espe\u00adcially as they age. A poor balance can lead to many prob\u00adlems, and life-impacting injuries (a broken hip!). In every class there should be some balancing exer\u00adcises. Also the client needs to take home the impor\u00adtance of good balancing skills, and add balancing moments in their every day life habits. <\/p>\n\n

Good habit; start you workout with a (short) foot massage, loos\u00adening up the joints and muscles there.<\/p>\n\n

The Mini\u2019s can be useful for this, they are rela\u00adtively cheap, and easy to carry!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hoewel ze het verst verwi\u00adjderd zijn van ons lichaam, spelen ze een belan\u00adgrijke rol in onze houd\u00adings\u00adge\u00adwoonten, en dus ook in onze ademhal\u00adingspa\u00adtronen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[52],"dipi_cpt_category":[],"class_list":["post-43413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-feet"],"a3_pvc":{"activated":false,"total_views":7,"today_views":0},"ase":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43413"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43421,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43413\/revisions\/43421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43413"},{"taxonomy":"dipi_cpt_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leilaspilates.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dipi_cpt_category?post=43413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}