Advantage of having your VP a leading Pilates expert and trainer? We get to post her amazing tips and tricks right here on the Hi-Spa Blog. Keep reading for new Hi-Spa Vice President Monique Jutila’s own Pilates for Runners mini regimen!
ARE YOU TRAINING FOR A RUNNING EVENT OR DO YOU RUN TO STAY FIT AND ACTIVE?
From competitive athletes to the occasional jogger, Pilates can help give that competitive edge, reduce the risk of injury and leave you feeling strong, tall, fit and fabulous!
Pilates is a series of mind-body exercises that uses dynamic movements to stretch, strengthen and balance the entire body, proving it to be an excellent choice for core conditioning for any athlete.
Like Pilates, running uses your body as an interconnected machine, with every muscle group working together. Injuries occur when a particular muscle group is weak or is not in sync with the others, causing the rest of the machine to make compensations elsewhere. It takes more than strong legs and lungs to be a good runner. Having a strong center is essential for balance, flexibility, breathing and endurance.
At Fluid Motion Maui, we have several Mat-based and Equipment-based classes that are great for improving your posture, balance and symmetry to help you become a better runner and stay injury free. better runner and stay injury free.
HERE ARE 5 GREAT MAT EXERCISES FOR RUNNERS:
Obliques (bicycle): Strengthens abdominals and hip flexors.
Shoulder bridge: Strengthens and gluts, hamstrings and challenges stability of the pelvis. Unilateral leg lifts challenge muscular strength, endurance and pelvic/torso stability.
Breast Stroke: Strengthen posterior muscles as the chest and anterior shoulder are stretched.
Spine Twist Seated: Strengthens obliques and improves spinal rotation.
Leg Pull Front (plank with calf stretch): Strengthens entire body and stretches calf muscle.
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Maui’s scenery is incomparable. The power of the combined elements—the water, the wind, and the land—come together to form an awe-inspiring, surreal experience of total unity. This connection we feel when surrounded by Hawaii’s nature, that energy and power, is called Mana. Mana, in Hawaiian belief, is the source of all power that exists in all the universe; all parts of nature, from humankind down to the tiniest plant and stone, has a spirit that can be connected to, and this spirit is our Mana.
When done properly, one’s Mana, and the Mana of another object, can even be harnessed and applied for all sorts of benefits. Since ancient times, civilizations have learned to utilize the Mana of crystals and gemstones to release mental, physical, and spiritual blockages throughout the body. Since Western medicine, such practices started to lose credibility, but now there is the growing realization that its possible for both traditional and Western practitioners to work together to improve well-being. In Hawaii, traditional healers are already a trusted source of health information, and still use stones to this day for healing treatments. Lava rocks are a big part of Hawaiian culture, and are used not only in lomi-lomi massage, but also for healing practices. The rocks can be heated and wrapped in ti leaves, then either placed on the body for sore spot treatment, tapped together to create vibrations, or used for exfoliation.
On Maui’s West side in the lava pools, are the unique green sparkling stones also used in Hawaiian energy work, known as Olivine crystals. These glittering green beauties are embedded into the porous lava rock of the pools, and also coat the surface of Big Island’s Green Sand Beach. These tiny gems are known as the happy tears of the fire goddess Pele, and people like to bathe in the infused ocean water with these exotic lava gems for their health and wellness properties.
To take it up a notch, there’s the incredible story of an ancient Lemurian civilization, believed to have sunk beneath the Pacific Ocean millennia past, and the volcanoes of Hawaii and other Polynesian Islands are really the tips of the ancient Lemurian Mountains, which are filled with the energy of the Lemurian seed crystals, aka quartz. Any way you look at it, the Hawaiian Islands are brimming with natural energy.
In stores all over Maui, you can find an incredible array of chakra balancing pendulums, heart-stones, stone massage tools, crystal infusions, along with tumbled, cut and polished crystals. Things like crystals, gold, and precious stones are no longer used just for jewelry. Hawaiian Spas are incorporating 24-karat gold, crushed pearls, rocks, and semi-precious stones into their treatments, utilizing the Mana and restorative energy properties of each. You can find a facial using diamonds and crushed pearls, massages with semi-precious gemstones, essential oils infused with local olivine stones, or a quartz crystal chakra balancing bodywork.
Maui is a wonderful treasure chest filled with sparkling, healing stones full of Mana, and the real fun is to going out to find them.
Want to learn how to have a successful retail business on the amazing island of Maui that many call home? Join the group of like-minded individuals and learn all the techniques you’re looking for at the 7th Annual Masters of Retail Success in Maui.
Lead by Lana’i Today’s owner Alberta De Jetley along with three other successful business owners statewide and hosted by Maui Business Brainstormers, MeetUp.com says that this event promises to be a fun and educational platform for “four Maui based businesses to share their unique journey, full of hands-on experiences, on the road that goes to a more stable and sunnier place.” Invaluable information, mouth watering food and a stunning view to boot, this is an opportunity that can’t be missed!
If you live on Maui and find your passions leading you in this direction, don’t miss out! The Masters of Retail Success in Maui Event will be held at the Kahili Golf Course on April 2nd, 2019 starting at 5pm. Go HERE for more information, or HERE to RSVP.
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