wellness wednesdays

We are pleased to offer an ongoing wellness series presenting various wellness alternatives, tools, and approaches, including stress management and self-coaching. We are seeking a wholistic approach, including all aspects of mind, body, relationships, and spirit. If you would like support with overall wellness, weight management, or improving the overall quality of your life, this series is for you.

Check the schedule for Wednesday meeting times, and sign up for our News and Updates for information about special guests and presentations.

Coming Wednesday, November 19, 6:30pm Join Licensed Massage Therapist Daniel Fascilla for a discussion of Japanese Restorative Massage: Its history, origins, methods, philosophy and applications. Learn about what massage can do for you and how it can improve your quality of life.

Our first topic in this special series was Nutrition and Wellness, with licensed acupuncturist Judy Charles, who brought inspiring education about Chinese nutrition and life-style choices. Judy Charles is a graduate of "SUPERIOR SCHOOL OF CHINESE MEDICINE OF MONTREAL" where she has received her training in nutrition. She is a nationally board certified acupuncturist and an internationally board certified colon hydrotherapist. With her holistic approach, she has devoted herself to help people with health maintenance and disease prevention for over 25 years. She may be reached at the Alternative Therapeutic Center in Williston, VT. Phone: 802 879-0945.

working with the whole person

We work with the whole person: body, mind, and inner self. As a Certified Pilates Instructor, Bartenieff Fundamentals Practitioner, and Laban Movement Analyst with advanced degrees in theatre and dance, Lucille offers a uniquely integrated approach to designing your fitness program and working with you to meet your individual needs.

Because it is more than just movement, you develop an awareness of what is moving and how you are moving. Through awareness you discover habitual movement patterns that may be the root cause of joint pain, weakness, or stiffness. We focus on correct alignment and sequencing of muscles and, through practice, most people can re-pattern habitual movements into ways of moving that are more comfortable, more effective, and more expressive of who you are.

Movement is fundamental to life. People of all ages and body types can benefit from greater ease of movement, flexibility, and core strength. We know, because we've experienced the enormous difference Pilates and Integrative Movement can make in our lives. Once you feel it, you'll know too.

Why Natural Bodies Pilates?

When you come to the studio, you can truly focus on your health and wellness, because that is what your instructor is focusing on: how to guide you on to a path that leads to health and wellness through regular exercise. At Natural Bodies Pilates we are interested in whole person health and wellness. Just as Joseph Pilates believed, we believe that exercise is not just for the fit. People with chronic pain, scoliosis, fibromyalgia, arthritis, can all benefit from modified Pilates exercises. You do not need to be in shape, or lose weight, before you begin. Beginners are welcome.

"Lucille is a skilled and motivating instructor. She works with you from the ground up as you develop your program." — C.C.

Real Change Starts Within Us

All true change begins on a deeper level, within us. More and more today, we are lured into buying things that are not very good for us, things such as liquor, sweet and fatty foods, or toys that require sitting around for extended periods of time. Every day I hear people who feel they are stuck in lifestyles that inevitably result in chronic pain, suffering, and illness. To remedy the effects of this lifestyle, we are sold medications, make-up, and skin plumping lotions. It starts, for some, to feel like decorations; as if we are decorating ourselves so that nobody, not even ourselves, will see how weak, stiff, and out of breath we are.

As a fitness professional I have talked with hundreds of people about their lifestyles and have always wondered why — when we learned basic daily grooming, general cleanliness, and good habits — daily exercise was excluded. I began to wonder when it was that people started complaining about having to exercise, and what I could do to help people change their habits to include exercise. Every day I hear how challenging it is to incorporate exercise into people’s lives, and when we look at where their lifestyle is leading it isn’t healthy. It is clear that no matter how many decorations, face lifts, or beauty products we use, if we are stiff, in pain, and have chronic conditions, nothing can cover that up. For myself and many of my colleagues and clients, the answer is a balanced approach to whole person health, a way of moving that is restorative, fortifying, and invigorating. In other words: Pilates exercise with Integrative Movement.