October 2022

The Foot

Welcome to the 18th issue of the Aha Atlas Newsletter! This month, we’re talking about your feet. 🦶

Learn some foot anatomy, and how to empower your clients to make choices about their feet in their Pilates practice. Move your feet in a mini class with Talese. Grow with us by doing a guided foot meditation, and stay for the discussion where we talk about proprioception training for your feet. Then chill with us as we share our fave ways to love our feet.

Okay, here’s a little secret. 🤫 We’re both language nerds. So much so, that we separately looked up foot idioms for fun when we were creating this issue. When we confessed this to each other, we both burst out laughing. For your enjoyment (or to your horror – it’s Halloween soon), here are some foot idioms.

Get your feet wet
Start something new
Find one’s feet
Start to feel confident in a new situation
To be rushed off your feet 
To be very busy
Have itchy feet
Have wanderlust 🌍
To be on the front foot v. To be on the back foot
To have an advantage in a situation v. To be at a disadvantage in a situation
Have one foot on a banana peel
Be in an uncertain situation, or at risk of sudden change for the worse
Land on your feet
Recover quickly after a failure or illness
Footloose and fancy free
Someone who has few responsibilities and can do whatever they wish
You can’t put the same shoe on every foot
One solution can’t solve all problems

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Learn

Let’s explore a teaching concept.

Explore how your foot can affect your entire leg chain. And get tips on how to apply your discoveries the next time you teach!

Move

Move with us in this mini-class (10-20 minutes).

Strengthen and stretch your fantastic feet in this full-body mini class with Talese. 

Props: Rolled up towel (or exercise mat or pillow), and some wall space.

Grow

Boost your confidence and resilience with us.

Join us in a guided foot meditation. You’ll walk away (pun intended) with revived feet, plus an understanding of what proprioception is, and how to apply foot proprioception training in your next session/class.

Chill

Come chill with us.

Footloose

We’re sharing our favorite ways to love our feet. How do you take care of your feet? Reply to this email and let us know. We’d love to hear!

Talese: My top choices for happy feet include getting a foot massage, or walking along the beach while the waves lap over my feet 🌊. To do your own release work, check out the Grow Section in Issue #10 (The Warm Up). It includes a template on how to give yourself a foot massage.

Kai-Ting: I love this mini ball. It’s smaller and has more give than the pinky ball. With release work, I’ve found that less is more, and my feet feel so good using this ball. Check out this video on how to use the mini ball (and maxi ball) to release and strengthen your feet.

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See you next month for our next issue! Until then, catch us on Instagram or TikTok.

xo Talese and Kai-Ting