A client here at Mind Your Body Pilates & GYROTONIC has been a loyal Pilates student for the past three years.
She commits to three classes a week and feels that Pilates has improved her general sense of self, which includes her body image. In her younger years, this client was a dancer, athlete and had which she calls, a “boyish figure”. She seems to have enjoyed this figure and misses it because it was slim and without the curves which is what she sees now when she looks in the mirror. She is very frustrated and almost disappointed by her female curves, voluptuousness and added weight. She states that the Pilates classes have helped her feel positive about her self image, and as a post-menopausal woman, she feels that Pilates movements have improved her circulation, digestion, overall health and energy. For months, I have been encouraging her to shed the over, over sized tee and try one that fits her beautiful! feminine! figure. Today, she purchased a few tees from the retail corner at Mind Your Body and she looks fabulous! I congratulate her for her courage and WOW! she looks great!! …but she didn’t need the small tee for me to know that. As her Pilates trainer, I knew how gorgeous she was under the over-sized tee.
-Gail Giovanniello