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I’m the owner of Boomerang Pilates and creator of the Move SMART program. I’m a Pilates teacher and therapeutic movement coach. I specialize in helping women with osteoporosis learn how to move their body without fear so they can feel confident, strong and flexible.

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I absolutely love this post from David @oldscoolmo $I absolutely love this post from David @oldscoolmoves ❤️ Those of us with osteoporosis have a particular relationship with falling. It comes with more risk, more potential for fractures. It can make us rigid, cautious, locked and contained. Unfortunately, that doesn't make us more balanced! Use supports and practice moving! A chair, a wall, a corner for support on 2 sides, a hallways for different support on 2 sides. Explore, observe, play. Balancing, as David says below, is a process, not a static state. ❤️ Repost✨ I had to befriend falling before I could find balance. When I started this movement journey, I believed that my balance was already pretty good. I soon learned otherwise. This was hard for me to accept. Predictably, I tried to exert my will over every balance task. I would grit my teeth, brace my joints and turn on all my muscles in valiant but misguided attempts to lock my balance in. Of course, this made things even worse. Then I came to accept that life and falling are inseparable. Even when standing, I am losing balance. Millions of adjustments are being made to keep me upright. I might not be falling far, but I am constantly falling. My body adjusts with speed and complexity far beyond the limits of willpower or conscious thought. So I let go - trusting my body’s extensive knowledge, experience and wisdom as well as its capacity to learn. My joints softened and my muscles relaxed. My balance immediately improved. Now that I’m friends with falling, we hang out all the time. And I’ve learned that better falling makes me better at balancing. These days, I seldom think about balance. Instead, I think about balancing - a process rather than a state. Even better, I think about catching balance - playing catch with falling in a constantly changing and ever evolving game. #balance #falling #fallprevention$

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