Casey Canino Pilates

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Welcome to one of the most interesting nerves in the human body. Remember that nerves are like a communication pathway from your brain 🧠 to the rest of your body. 🤸🏻‍♀️When stimulated they are an electrical conduit from body to brain, brain to body. 💡 Meet the Vagus Nerve. This Super Nerve is the guy that connects you brain to your GUT, HEART, LUNGS, and AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM (rest/digest & Fight/Flight) ❤️This powerful nerve can be the defining factor when it comes to your gut health, your heart beat, your breath, and your anxiety. 😬So in a time when we all feel anxious, panicked, scared, and scattered, knowing how to stimulate this nerve may be helpful!👍🏻 Here’s a list of different things that will tap into this Super Nerve: 💦Hot/Cold Showers 🌬Breathing exercises 🎤Humming/Singing 💆🏻‍♀️Massaging behind and into the top of your right ear (weird, I know!) 🤣Laughing Massaging your belly 🍟Avoiding Inflammatory foods Let’s keep looking for the tools that encourage, help, and lift us up. DM me if you have any questions! Keep shining bright my friends! #move #pilates #vagusnerve #health #coronoavirus #breathe #singing #coldtherapy #fit #neuroscience #nerve @zhealth_performance @pilatescollectiveslo @empowermassagetherapy https://www.instagram.com/p/B-NV44HJ5M3/?igshid=1kqxipzpatkdx

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I find my motivation to move in class with my friends and others. Having people near helps me concentrate, challenge myself, and really focus on getting good work done. My friends hold me accountable. Maybe it’s my extroverted tendencies, or competitive nature, or lack of discipline 😂 Whatever it is, I love moving alongside people. . . So for those individuals who are struggling to find healthy movement while in self isolation, just know that I feel you! And do not beat yourself up if you find yourself not moving as much this week. It’s ok, and there are other options out there! . . Getting out of routine, does not necessarily mean quiting movement. It just means that it changes. Maybe instead of class, it’s a hike with the pups 🐶 or an online session with your trainer 💻, or challenging your partner to a burpee competition 😉 Let’s get creative this week! Shoot me your ideas! . . Lookout 👀for a new online pilates mat class that you can follow along with this week! #coronavirus #movement #fit #workout #pilates #plank #isolation #extrovert Photo Cred: @asiacrosonphotography (at San Luis Obispo, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B96sUj9JgCv/?igshid=1cicquut3n0tp

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Elephant is a deceiving exercise! 🐘For such a small movement, there is so much going on. For me, it’s not about how much pelvic floor or abdominal muscular sensation I can feel. For me, Elephant is essential for learning the perfect C-curvature with equal space, equal curve throughout every vertebral disc. Our spine can twist, turn, rotate, bend this way and that way, but when it is required to find equal space, no extraneous tension, and no deviations the work gets harder. . . Before we rush to do big movements and add a ton of weight, ask yourself, how good are you at the small ones? Can you control each joint? Even the most nuanced joints like your lower lumbar discs? The ability to know where and how your body moves in space is called proprioception. Proprioception feeds information to your brain about your environment. 🧠The more information your brain has, the better you can make decisions! 👍🏻 Take time for the small movements! #small #pilates #elephant #move #brain #science #fit #slowmotion #california #fire #blackandwhite (at San Luis Obispo, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9y_3WtJttN/?igshid=1c3g5hw0gxlif

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Happy Saturday team! Remember to rest up and get out in the sun for awhile! ☀️ . . #sun #hike #sanluisobispo #move #healthylifestyle #pilates (at Bishop Peak) https://www.instagram.com/p/B84X9ttJZvv/?igshid=17enqxu7udmgs

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Foundation Training’s Three E’s, Expand, Elevate, Engage of Decompression Breath. Such powerful words, for such a hard task. Start by inhaling through your nose, EXPAND the rib cage 360 degrees from front to back, side to side. Feel how the ribs elevate away from your hips, embrace that height! Next, engage your abs, EXHALE everything out! 💨Lengthen ever further, don’t release any of that height, expansion, and width you created! Take 5-7 breaths in this fashion, and relax! . How do you feel? Taller? Longer? More stable? Wonderful, practice this Decompression Breath each and every day, as much as you can. See what happens ;) DM for more information for online sessions, in person privates, and group classes for more information about @foundationtraining , Decompression Breath, and ways we can make your body more awesome 👏🏻 #foundation #training #weightlifting #movement #breathe #breath #simple #release #health (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8rHgRzJxE1/?igshid=1vhdxwku1kb4n

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☀️Day in the life of clients being awesome☀️ 👏🏻 Sometimes a little feedback can be the thing to help our brain 🧠 conceptualize the task needing to be done. Here we are working the Kettlebell Get Up with the help of the Pilates equipment. Thankfully 🙏🏻 the principles of the Pilates roll up perfectly coincide with the first couple movements of the Get Up. And with the help of the Tower, this client can explore and control every bit of the movement, and gain the strength needed to perform the Get Up without assistance. 🙌🏻 This is just one example of how we use many different types of tools from the toolbox to make our movement goals come into fruition! 👉🏻 Check out the second video for the full Get Up, and DM if you’re interested in making your movement more awesome! . . . . #zhealthperformance #fitness #fitnessmotivation #pilates #foundations @_coach_karen_ @strongfirst @foundationtraining @pilatescollectiveslo @empowermassagetherapy #kettlebell #getup (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7bO6UvJmK-/?igshid=1h77qyoq9z6e6

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For 2020, I decided to learn some new movements. Barbells and Olympic weight lifting have always been intimidating to me. BUT, the most growth happens when we are uncomfortable, and the way we prepare for these uncomfortable moments can either make us successful, or injured 🤕 Thanks to years of dance, Pilates, body awareness training, @foundationtraining, @zhealth_performance, Kettlebells, Yoga, and everything in between, this little clean here feels much more ACCESSIBLE. So the question becomes, how are you preparing for the uncomfortable moments both in the studio/gym and life? . . . #barbells #clean #fitness #pilates #movement @strongfirst #kettlebells #zhealthperformance #healthyfood #healthylifestyle #foundation (at Sleeping Tiger Fitness/360 Krav Maga Central Coast) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Q3-mOJcsX/?igshid=cqexyu4lyb0m

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✨Thursday Inspiration! ✨Great quote from @zhealth_performance . . Interested in becoming more resilient? DM us! #zhealthperformance @foundationtraining @pilatescollectiveslo @empowermassagetherapy @zhealth_performance #kettlebell #pilates #movement #performance #fitness #fitnessmotivation (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B7HUnawJ6nu/?igshid=g7eg2ysyhq1k

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Have you smiled today? Made a big cheesy grin yet? Has someone or something caused you to giggle in the past few hours? Did you know that smiling helps reduce the body’s response to stress and lowers heart rate AND blood pressure? There is other research that links smiling to longevity. Here’s the kicker! Smiling is free 😉 So as we approach this New Year, and create resolutions, buy gym memberships, fill the fridge with the food for our new diet, keep in mind that some of the little things are maybe the most powerful tools to create a change this year. 👏🏻 Challenge💡: who has the best joke ever???? Comment below!! #joker #jokes #smile #happy #healthyliving #movement #pilates #kettlebells #weighttraining #women #slolife #power #change https://www.instagram.com/p/B7Edsikpr27/?igshid=1fzdu6lgpjzjb

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from beautiful France! 🇫🇷 We hope your holidays are filled with family, fun, and rest! See you in the New Year! . . . . . . #nice #france #healthy #caninoclan #holidays #move #walk #castle #family #pilates #frenchriviera (at Eze Village) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6i5vq2Jjg4/?igshid=n4t9gxutcy7n

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💥Boomerang!💥 Springing into Monday! Have a productive, fun week everyone! . . . . #boom #boomerang #mat #pilates #pilatesmat #move #fit #fitnessmotivation #healthy #december #decemberchallenge @pilatescollectiveslo (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6I-InZpjCV/?igshid=1hlhcd5uhumpc

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People come into the studio all the time asking for strength. Whether it’s core strength, arm strength, leg strength, etc. They know that strength takes consistency and practice, but what they don’t realize is that it takes SKILL to even learn how to generate tension in musculature to even attempt to lift that heavy weight. It takes skill to know how to turn on your butt musculature, your Lats, or your abs. Then it takes SKILL to regulate, or turn up the muscular contraction in these specific muscles. Are you at 10% effort? Are you at 100% effort? Do you even know what 100% effort feels like? This may be hard just thinking about perfecting this skill in your big muscle groups, but realize that there are HUNDREDS of muscles in your body. So if your looking to become strong, learn how to generate tension in each and every muscle in your body. Do you have that skill? 😉 . . . #zhealthperformance #strongfirst #movement #pilates #foundationtraining @foundationtraining @strongfirst @zhealth_performance @pilatescollectiveslo @empowermassagetherapy @sleepingtigerfitness https://www.instagram.com/p/B55-U5HpmJR/?igshid=gb0w6bhr1jgr

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This weekend I COMPLETED and PASSED Strongfirst Level 1 Kettlebell Certification @strongfirst So grateful to have experienced such an amazing community and push my body to a level that I haven’t. I am also looking forward to translating and melding this work with Pilates, @foundationtraining and @zhealth_performance! Adding another tool to the toolbox today, and I have never felt as strong as I do now. Get ready Insta team! Strongfirst Hard Style Kettlebells are coming your way! . . . #kettlebells @strongfirst #movement #smart #healthy #weights #pilatesreformer #pilates @zhealth_performance @pilatescollectiveslo Photo cred: @empowermassagetherapy (at Extreme Studio Performance) https://www.instagram.com/p/B50pUPbJJlg/?igshid=noaxhbxkq07c

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🌧❄️🤸🏻‍♀️Doin’ the Neck Roll into December! 🤸🏻‍♀️❄️🌨 . . . #neckroll #pilates #mat #december #christmas #matwork #move #fitnessmotivation #fit #hair (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5oaQlOpkoS/?igshid=j31hwylrwkfz

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“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.” ― Martha Graham . . . #movement #advancedpilates #shoulderbridge #hipextension #mat #dance #slolife #slohappenings #sun (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5ENH8tpi1g/?igshid=ef4vmm149ayk

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What do you get excited to go do? What movements makes you look forward to going to the studio/gym? What intrigues you? Is it dance? Rock climbing? Paddle boarding? Pilates? 😉 Let us know! . . . #pilates #sanluisobispo #move #fun #excited #favorite #movemore https://www.instagram.com/p/B4kgfZJJCv0/?igshid=lw03kyjoz9mc

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Pilates Mat Series of Five! 🤸🏻‍♂️ Single leg stretch, Double leg stretch, Single Straight Leg, Double Straight Leg, Criss Cross. Work that powerhouse! . . . #advancedpilates #mat #matwork #classicalpilates #pilates #vagusnerve #flowers #sanluisobispo (at Pilates Collective SLO) https://www.instagram.com/p/B4NXbLBJdTz/?igshid=3gs2monffdsb