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Restoring the Path at LuzLife Lotus Studio

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Spring Camp, VIP Master Class with Mr. Jay Grimes, at Vintage Pilates Abril 2015

I was in LA, USA last week participating in the Spring Camp at Vintage Pilates; where the teachers are more than teachers; really friends and they are teaching what Joe Pilates said.

Meeting the first generation of Pilates student was a gift for my path and I am sharing with all my clients here in Qatar for over 9 years.

Reaching a good level of movement; working with my own imbalance and moving forward every day is my goal at that point.

I am having at my side amazing teachers like Amy Kellow, Andrea Maida, Karen Frishmann, Sandy Shimoda, Sandy Sarnoff, Dena Drotar, Ken Krech, Suzanne McHugh Parker, Melanie Petri and Mr. Jay Grimes.

Having new Pilates friends and much love and kindness from everywhere made me feel that everything is possible when the universe is allowing us to move forward fearless and strong.

I believe that we are our own master and we need to stay connected with our body mind and soul.

Learning from Mr. Jay Grimes; what Joe Pilates did and said is a blessing in my own path as a Pilates Student and of course nourish my personal life.

Connected to our spine muscles, our head with the rest of the body, breathing and using the right muscles, lifting our stomach muscles, feeling the push and pull in each movement, resist the gravity and be present in each single exercise that Joe Pilates was teaching.

Learning every movement we are able to imprint what our body needs in order to achieve the physical fitness for healthy body and healthy mind.

by,

Luz A. Lovern
Teacher

Be Part of the Change and Fly with me.

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The Swan Dive – Learning to Fly and Enjoying It!

via Skype at Lotus LuzLife Studio here in Qatar.

With Amy Kellow; who is my personal Classical Pilates Teacher; and I am having her to detox my Old Pilates Path.

Amy Kellow; Will be this year in Qatar to give us the best Classical Pilates Workshop from the Original; from the Elder Mr. Jay Grimes.

Please more information visit her web site: http://everybodypilates.co.uk

The Swan Dive – Learning to Fly and Enjoying It! at LuzLife Pilates and Yoga Studio here in Qatar

In our personal practise the Swan is often one of those exercises that challenge us as individuals and therefore challenges the way we teach.

In this 3 hour workshop we will delve into the way the body should move in extension and why it is a healthy movement when taught correctly.

Starting on the Mat we will look at the Swan Dive in its entirety and learn how to teach it safely and in a way to help strengthen the back. You will explore extension in your own body so that you feel the difference and understand how to teach it more effectively.

We will look at how the Swan and similar extension exercises develop around the system and where you can use variations to develop a better understanding.

By the end of the workshop you will be flying high!

Join Amy this Sunday 12th April via Skype here in Qatar at Qatar Time. at LuzLife Studio, we will provide Mats, Refreshments and Healthy Snacks.

Be Part of the Change and Fly with me.

Price 350 QR.

10.00am – 1.00pm (UK time)

12:00 noon – 15:00 pm Qatar Time

Please more details at timeless@luzlife.com
or 55700967
Call not and reserve your Mat!

Let Fly!

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Luz’s Method

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Luz is the Elvis Presley of Pilates – she simply rocks!

Luz is the Elvis Presley of Pilates – she simple rocks!

Whoever thought Pilates is a bit of stretching here and there, has not trained with Luz yet – with her it is a full body workout.

She is innovative, creative and fun to train with. Her sessions are hard and effective – she never lose focus on your body & mind.

An hour with her is more effective than a week doing a boot camp

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Luz’s Method Body and Mind is a combination of more than 15 years of experience and training with the best teacher around the globe to bring to my students the best and the updated news about Movements and Healthy Living. Teaching and learning from my students.

Thanks Babette your rock my day!

Luz A. Lovern

Babette, is a great motivation in my teaching skills, She will be amazing Pilates Teacher.

Classic is timeless, that is Joseph Pilates Works

Classical is Timeless, that is Joe Pilates works.

As a Pilates Lover, I have had great experience practicing Pilates around the globe, Italy, Paris, South of France, London, Zurich, USA and even The Maldives; although I had wonderful Pilates Teachers, being in LuzLife Pilates boutique Studio has not only inspired me a great deal, but I have managed to achieve superb result in just under 1 month.

As She specifically tailor makes the work out to what my body needs are. Thanks you Luz for being here in Qatar, for the great fun, support and personal care you have always shown.

Johara Al Suwaidi

Be able to share a beautiful feedback at LuzLife website; for one of my favorite client is such a honor and show me that we all belong to the same tree and love and support each others is fundamental in this work. As a Teacher and as a woman, we all need that. Thanks Johara you are wonderful inspiration to keep moving.

Pilates Method is a way of life,

Luz A. Lovern

Pilates and Body Work at LuzLife Private Studio

Embracing the present moment, coming to my mind so much to share. Movement, Contrology, Yoga, Healthy choices, Reiki energies, Alexander Technique, Garuda Method, Yin Yoga, Breathing Technique, Meditation, TCM and Meridian Work, Organic Workout.

Be good and doing good is priority in life. LuzLife Lotus Studio is the result of years of studying and learning from greatest teachers around this beautiful Planet. And I keep training and learning to give my best. The Goal of LuzLife is about you and how we can reach the goals.

To support and help the students to set up the personal goal and challenging times is the meaning of this place. To see result not just about shaping and changing your body is about how we can be better with us and others. Meditation and Breathing technique is fundamental in our place.

For the last past years I am sharing my own path and give the energies in each sessions.

Today I am learning from my own experience; what a unique journey; I need to set up how we are working here.

How I can be successful? I need To Be Clear like a WATER

To be around of good and energetic elements. The Five Element for sure.

You need to read the Policy cancelation and be agree in what is all about. Be clear like a water that is our goal today.

Mutual Respect is fundamental; we need to be present with the place that we have today. We are flowing, moving and growing in every single breath. We are Water most of the time.

LuzLife Lotus Studio have the own philosophy of Live, Move and Smile.

1.- Respect your teacher

2.- Pay before commencement of sessions; Clearing your pending payment is mandatory

3.- Stay motivated and be ready for Move; ask your teacher if you need it! Feedback is always welcome and is honey for the mind and body.

4.- Be respectful with the equipments; Clean and organize equipment and apparatus after use; we have special organic and friendly with the Planet for this purpose

5.- Bath, use deodorant and no strong perfumes before sessions

6.- Wear clean, loose fitting clothing and wear sock just to be used at the inside of the studio or special Pilates or Yoga socks.

7.- Collecting your belonging and dispose of used towels provided by the Studio in the special basket after each session

8.- Reconfirm next appointment before departing.

Nothing Special, just common courtesies. Your kind respect and compliance with these courtesies would be greatly appreciated.

LuzLife Studio of Pilates and Yoga in Qatar

Life is a gift; we are creating the Energy of LuzLife in our own path – Luz mean Light, be the Light.

“Many people suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore. Mindfulness helps you come home to the present. Life is available only in the present.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

Happy New Year from LuzLife Lotus Studio

Dear Students,

The brand New Year is here; I like to invite to keep breathing, moving and pay attention to your intuition.

LuzLife Lotus Studio

Our Body, Mind and Spirit are connected and we are connected with the Planet. What is good for you is good for your environment. Healthy choices, Peace of Mind, Exercises with Consciousness that is our Goal and read the ingredients and be aware about what you put in your Spiritual Fitness.

The Pilates Neck Exercise my Secret to help my cervical spine after ACS and work! made by Gratz Pilates

I keep training, moving and learning every time that I have opportunity to give the best at LuzLife Lotus Studio.

This Year I will be traveling to keep moving forward to be updated in my own studies of Luz’s Method.

Training our Spiritual Fitness is our goal; better Posture, Strong connection with your entire body, Healthy Spine, Shaping our body, to be lean and flexible; Classical Pilates Method is the Answer.

This Year 2015 We are introducing Gratz Pilates Equipments. Be patience all is coming.

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The Toes Exercises and Magic circle made from Gratz Pilates

Yin Yoga made by LuzLife, connecting our entire body and mind to release and detox our path.

Yin Yoga by Luz A. Lovern here in Qatar The Yin Yoga, Body Work, and the Organic Cardio is just a great components of the LuzLife Studio Universe.

The Yin Yoga, Body Work, and the Organic Cardio System; is just a great components of the LuzLife Studio Universe.

Welcome! and Healthy and Flexible New Year 2015

Luz A, Lovern

Teacher

Promoting physical and mental well being at LuzLife Lotus Studio

Classical Pilates and Yin Yoga integrates a series of exercises that promotes physical, mental and emotional well being addressing the two main concerns of society today: fitness and stress.

Modern lifestyles have grown increasingly less active and more stressful, impacting quality of life. The pace of today’s society, the worldwide aging population, and the now-public awareness of the mind-body connection has created an increasing interest in Yin Yoga and Pilates as a mindful programs.

The Classical Pilates Method is based on a full, integrated system of equipment – the Mat exercises are just part of the technique; only 25 % of the Pilates exercises can be performed on a Mat.

The equipment works better and faster to change our body memories and keep you at the present moment; as the varying springs provide support and resistance that allow an individual to enhance their core connection in a way that is difficult to do on the Mat alone.

Because of this, the equipment allows one to shape, tone, lengthen and align the body differently from that of the Mat work. In short, the equipment works better and faster to change our entire body.

Science shows that the body needs to learn how to move correctly. The ability to perceive movement properly is rarely emphasized in modern society, allowing dysfunction to develop. While the brain recognizes basic movement patterns, it does not naturally focus on muscles or muscle groups or know how to sequentially build upon basic patterns of movement in a healthy way.

LuzLife, The Spiritual Fitness; mending her own energies.

Pilates Total by Luz A. Lovern (Pilates Total where we include Yin Yoga, Meditation, Relaxation, Fitness Expert advice, Healthy Living, Reiki, Alexander Technique, Garuda Method, Yoga Asnas and of course Cardiovascular Exercises all together with the marvelous energies of Contrology, the Art of the Movement The Pilates Method).

Are wonderful tolls in the modern life; that I am testing in my own path. Teaching and providing Private or Semiprivate session that will strengthen and stretch muscles, restore muscular and physical balance, provide movement efficiency, and build endurance, Meditation and working with the Principals of Yin Yoga. Movement relies upon the synchronization of the muscles throughout the entire kinematic chain, and results in the nervous system’s ability to initiate and control all movement patterns easily by rote. Pilates Total, improves stability and balance by promoting the nervous system’s awareness of the our body and helps in the rehabilitation of our Spiritual Machine at LuzLife Lotus Studio here in Qatar.

Keep moving and smile to the universe,

Luz A. Lovern, Teacher

Teaching Yoga Karuna, by Luz A. Lovern

Yin Yoga and The Meridians Series, The Workshop

Last September I had the opportunity to meet again my Yoga Teachers Sebastian Pucelle and Murielle Burellier, to further learn about Yin Yoga and The Meridians Series.

Sebastian Pucelle, Murielle Burellier and Luz A. Lovern September 2014, Thailand

“Learning how to heal yourself with the practice of Yin – Yoga, tapping into the life-force of the body called Prana )in India or Qi (in China) using the nervy pathways named, Nadis or Meridians.Going deeper into the practice of Yin-Yoga will promote the removal of blockages and stagnation of energy, enhancing the flow of Qi to stimulate the function of the Meridians and Main Organs restoring and balancing our physical, energetic and emotional health through the practice of the Yin Yoga Meridians Series”.

Yin Yoga

Yin Yoga practice has transformative effects on body and mind. The gentle but consistent stimulation of the connective tissues encourages long-term health and flexibility of the joints, recharges the energetic system of the body and naturally draws the mind inward into a relaxed, meditative state. It also prepares the body and mind for longer meditation practices.

Our Yin Yoga Teacher Training is overlapping Yogic,Taoist and Buddhist concepts to contemplate and interpret the essential message of those different traditions.From the gross to the subtle we believe in cultivating an awareness of all the different aspects of the individual, combining body/mind perception as a practice to positively influence, modify, and transform one’s health and consciousness. from www.with-yinyoga.com

Using our body to reach the mind that brings tremendous benefits in our life. Improving our well being, calming our mind and leting us more focused and stillness.

Using our body t o reach the mind. Wood Element.

After this workshop with Sebastian and Murielle, I was feeling emotionally and physically different, more clear and calmed, more peace in my heart helping me to embrace the present moment. Working with the Life Force bringing our internal organs to the balance and harmony that we need.

Clean up the fears, anger and negative emotions to reach the inner peace and moving fearless in this Planet.

Today I am moving with freedom, taking care of my Liver and all my internal organs to keep the internal harmony taking care of my emotions and detoxing my path.

Ancient Taoists viewed the life as energy and referred to powerful life forces as spirits. The planets Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Saturn, and their related directions, East, South, West, North and Center, were considered potent life forces or spirits, because internal organs correspond to planets. Their related directions were also referred to as spirits. Planetary spirit is internal organ spirit, and internal organ spirit is human spirit.
Taoist cultivate arts, including nei dan (internal alchemy), developing conscious awareness of the undivided connection between these five spirits or aspects of life, allowing a profound experience of one’s true nature.

The Five Elements and the relationship with our Internal Organs. Learning how we can keep the harmony and balance in daily life.

I am sharing with all of you some notes from this experience and hope you can find the good energies around.

Also a very good recommendation from my teachers and friends Sebastian and Murielle the book is from Ted J. Kaptchuk “Chinese Medicine The web that has no weaver”

Be at the House of Hun, the eternal soul.

by Luz A. Lovern

Meeting with the Pilates Lineage

Dear friends!

I will be in London from October 1st to October 6th, 2014 for be part of the Classical Pilates Convention in London.

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The original Eighth Avene Pilates Studio in Manhattan bore the first generation of Pilates Teachers and now meeting the with the Pilates Lineage in UK.

Joseph Pilates developed his work from a strong personal experience in fitness. Unhealthy as a child, Joseph Pilates studied many kinds of self-improvement systems. He drew from Eastern practices and Zen Buddhism, and was inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of man perfected in development of body, mind and spirit. On his way to developing the Pilates Method, Joseph Pilates studied anatomy and developed himself as a body builder, a wrestler, gymnast, boxer, skier and diver.

My own experience with Pilates is one of the best way to move and be present.

My Mentor and Teacher, Joe Pilates

Luz A. Lovern

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Luz A. Lovern, recovering from ACS in 2013, and using Pilates for Physical Rehabilitation and practicing and teaching Yin Yoga to be back to Life!

Joseph Pilates and the movement of animals

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Joseph spent hours in the woods studying the movement of animals.

Joe was born in Munchen-Glebach, a small town near Dusseldorf Germany in 1880. He was a very sickly child suffering from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. He was taunted by other children and was unable to defend himself, which inspired his journey to fitness and health. Joseph spent hours in the woods studying the movement of animals and memorizing an anatomy book his physician had given him. By the age of 14, he was modeling for anatomy charts and continued developing his physical fitness through boxing, skiing, diving and gymnastics.

In 1914 after WWI broke out, he was interned in an “enemy alien camp” in Lancaster. It was here that he began to develop the Pilates Method of Exercise known then as Contrology. He was then transferred to another camp in The Isle of Man. While working here as a nurse, he developed his exercise equipment using bed springs and other apparatus.

In 1925, he came to the United States and while on the ship he met his wife, Clara. Upon arriving in New York City, they opened a studio at 939 8th Avenue. Famous choreographers and dancers studied with Joe for their training and rehab work (George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham). Additionally, many movie stars studied with him as well (Vivien Leigh, Sir Lawrence Olivier, Katherine Hepburn).

In January 1966, there was a fire in his building. Joe returned to his studio to fight the fire, but fell through the burnt out floorboards hanging for some time until rescued by firefighters. He later died in October 1967, at the age of 87, due to complications attributed to this incident. Clara continued to run the studio for the next 10 years until her death in 1976. A longtime teacher and student, Romana Kryzanowska, took over the business and dedicated her life to teaching Joe’s work.