Cory is now teaching at Caribou Baby in Brooklyn

Postnatal Pilates

The Pilates method is designed to strengthen the core muscles of the stomach, back and pelvis and balance the body overall.

As a new mom, you may have lost connection with your abdominal muscles and the all-important stabilizers that keep your spine long and strong. As a more experienced mom, months or years of bending down to pick up your baby (or what they left on the floor), breastfeeding, and carrying might be causing back and neck strain or fatigue in general.

Practicing the Pilates method at any stage of motherhood (though it is recommended to wait 6 weeks after delivery, longer for C-sections or diastasis issues) will teach you how to:

• Control your abdominals to ease neck and back strain
• Give you a broader range of movement
• Improve your posture
• Give you more energy to take care of your little one with peace of mind of having done something fun and healthy for yourself

Class Time

Mondays at 2PM starting September 12th

Cost:

$180 for 10 Class Card
$20 for drop in class

To purchase class card or for other inquiries, please call 347.460.BABY or email info@cariboubaby.com.

Instructor Cory Nakasue teaches Pilates, yoga, and dance in schools, homes, and offices around the city and out of her pint-sized studio in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. She also does somatic counseling for new moms alongside psychotherapist and birthing educator Marsha Greenberg for Complete Postpartum, a service for new and not-so-new moms addressing every facet of motherhood from birthing to parenting. She is trained in both classical and contemporary Pilates methods, and Iyengar yoga and Breath Centered Yoga Therapy. For more information visit: Body Intelligence

De-Stress and give the gift of well being!

Dear Friends,

It’s that time of year. The Holidays: a season full of joy and activity, but not without its more stressful moments. Now, more than ever, it’s important to keep up the good work we’ve been doing all year. You’ll need all of the extra energy that your Pilates and yoga programs give you, as well as the peace of mind and stress relief of your Thai yoga massage program.

Kristen and I are here to help you put yourself first during a time when that seems impossible. But, as we all know, the only way to effectively care for anyone else, do good work, and even enjoy yourself, is if your body is alive with vitality and your head is clear.

We have designed a new class with the holidays in mind, and are now offering gift certificates so you can share the Joseph Pilates philosophy with your friends:

"Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness."
-Joseph Pilates

Let the games begin!
Kristen & Cory

See Kristen's new video!
If you've been wondering what Thai yoga massage is all about...

TRY-FECTA

A way for you to try all of the things we offer at the Body Intelligence studio. Class includes:

30 minutes of heart-pumping Pilates toning +
30 minutes of mind-centering, detoxifying yoga asana+
30 minutes of restorative yoga postures and hands-on Thai yoga massage=
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A 90-minute deluxe class…the works!

Book as a:
Trio, $35 p/person,
Duo, $45 p/person,
$80 for 90-minute Try-fecta Private (Amazing Deal!)

HOLIDAY GIFT CERTIFICATES!
Purchase Body Intelligence gifts for friends at a reduced rate! Sorry, these prices are only available for gifts (but maybe one of your friends can get one for you.)

60 minute group class $15.00 (reg. $20.00)
60 minute Pilates or yoga in-studio private $55.00 (reg. $60.00)

60 minute Pilates/yoga house/office private $75.00 (reg. $90.00)
90 minute Thai-yoga massage in-studio $60.00 (reg.$65.00)

*Limit 10 gifts per client
** Offer Ends December 24^th, 2010
***Certificates expire December 31^st, 2011

Your New Post-Partum Body Mantra: “It’s Cumulative” or "Forever -- is composed of Nows –" --Emily Dickinson

You are overwhelmed, and you feel tired, sluggish, and can’t tell abs from your feet. Your body does not feel like your own and you have a whole new little body that you are carting around and feeding. You have all the good intentions of doing your Kegels, your cardio, and your Pilates three times a week…but, let’s get real; you barely have time to do a Kegel. Now is not the time to beat yourself up for failing to live up to impossible ideals of the perfect exercise regime. The truth of the matter is that all -or -nothing mentality can actually prevent you from getting back in shape and wreak havoc on your self esteem---like you need one more thing to stress about anyway.

Instead, repeat this, “It’s Cumulative.” Yes, it IS worth it to do 5 minutes of abdominal exercises as opposed to doing nothing at all. It IS worth it to take the stairs a couple extra flights in lieu of 30 minutes on the elliptical. It really does all add up. Shift your focus to making quality choices during the day and you’re automatically living a higher quality lifestyle, which inevitably leads to better health and peace of mind. If life hands you an extra hour to workout, terrific, take it. But, sometimes all we get is 10 minutes here, five minutes there---take those too. If you start looking for those extra moments, you’ll find more and more of them, use them. It will hone your ability to live in the present and take things as they come; an invaluable skill to have as a new mom.

Blogging, texting, emailing and all the new technology is amazing. What a feeling to have a question for a friend and get gratified quickly with a response or a new piece of information from the Internet.
The challenge for us is that in real time relationships with our partners or our children, the gratification rarely occurs that quickly or sometimes not as satisfactorily. We must in minutes or seconds make a response or make a decision that may not have all the information we would like to have. And then once the decision is made and an action is taken we wonder and worry whether we have made the right decision. We guess and second guess and for some mothers this can feel agonizing and undermining to our daily existence.
Partnering or Parenting is not just a science or an art but an interaction of both. It is influenced by emotion, our individual truths, our hopes, and often our distortions about ourselves. Learning how to tell the difference in what is driving our choices takes time, and learning how to change our responses to feel more at peace with ourselves takes even more time. We are more than our emotions. We do not choose our feelings we can only choose our reactions. Feelings do not and cannot predict outcomes. They are feelings, just that; a part of, but not all of who we are.

The Power of Words

The word Partum is the Latin word for what one acquires. This is not just semantics but an important idea when we think about postpartum and the meaning of that for families.

After a birth, a couple has now acquired a new being, a presence in what for so many relationships has been an intimate and private time between two partners. When a baby arrives the connection between two people now gets stretched to include another. The baby becomes for many families a visible sign of the connection or commitment they have, or what is wished for. And when we frame it like that we usually want to see it as a positive sign, a sign that says "love", "support", and "respect", and a sign that is reflected identically by our partners. This is often not only unspoken but assumed. Before children come into a couple’s life, the challenges of being together have usually not consumed day and night with uncertainty, fear, worry, and complete sleep deprivation. So this baby, becomes a sign of a union and each partner has their own construct of what that sign means to them, or what is the wished for meaning.
If we buy a house, for one person it may mean stability, for another financial burden; an engagement ring, can be a sign of commitment to one or a sense of obligation to another. Relationship signs, while for most of us recognizable do not always have shared meanings. Here is a good example of how this can look 4 weeks postpartum:

Partner1: I am so tired, I have to sleep tonight, can you get up with the baby?
Partner 2: I have to go to work tomorrow, I can’t do this every few days.
Partner 1: I thought you were going to help.
Partner 2: I am, but I cannot do my job.
Partner 1: I know that but I am working all day and night.
Partner 2: It's different...
Partner 1: I am exhausted!
Partner 2: Well I am too!
Partner 1: You knew it would be hard when we decided to have this baby...

In an ideal world talking about this ahead of time can be helpful, but most of the time we talk after the fact. It is never too late to ask the questions and look for answers and to develop shared meanings.

Discussion: Emotional, Physical,and Sexual Shifts After Baby

This discussion focuses on the impact the birth of your baby can create in your partner relationship. Please follow below link for video.

http://www.babybites.com/02/22/marriage-and-your-relationship-after-the-baby-emotional-physical-and-sexual-shifts/