Creating Change Podcast

Through her journey through graduating from the Kane School for Core Integration and the Kathy Grant Heritage Training, Anula Maiberg has become very educated in the field of Pilates and movement. She believes Pilates is a wonderful movement modality and a tool for healing in a supportive environment. Anula is passionate about upholding the traditions and principles of Pilates while being able to update and personalize them for the needs of her students. You can find more information about Anula Maiberg and her content at Pilates Anytime, https://www.pilatesanytime.com/instructor-bio/212/Anula-Maiberg-Pilates-Teacher, her Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/anula.maiberg, and her Instagram https://www.instagram.com/anulamaiberg/?hl=en. For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

Episode 17 explores the ongoing survival of one woman and her battles with cancer.  If you wish to connect with Karen Follett, please email us at restoringcores1@gmail.com and we will be happy to connect you.  For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

F. E. A. R. (False Evidence Appears Real) Is that what it means? Fear is something we all experience for many reasons and something we all feel. What does fear mean and what does it do to our body? Dr. Jacques Herter shares his knowledge on FEAR. For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

Episode #15 is entitled Mind, Body and Soul and explores the world of boxing and youth in a small community in Central Wyoming.   Executive Director and Head Coach, Clayton Jensen of the Casper Boxing Club uses the body, mind and spirituality as a catalyst to bring about change in Casper’s youth to reach young people to live healthy, positive, and productive lives. You can find more information about Casper Boxing Club at https://casperboxingclub.com.  For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

Have you wondered what it would be like to be in law enforcement as a woman? Eighteen percent of law enforcement officers are women with 3% rising into higher ranks. Episode #14 is with Marty Houston, a sex crime investigator, from the Memphis Police Department who shares her 25 years of law enforcement experience! As well as her plans for a more balanced and healthy future!  If you have any further questions for Mary, you can contact her through email at Resipsa29@aol.com  For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

Would you get a mastectomy to reduce your chances of breast cancer?  This episode, “Grit and Grace”, explores the journey of Cathy Holman. Cathy’s blog, PrairieWifeInHeels.com is the place to go for heartfelt humorous posts about life on the Wyoming prairie, parenting, health and wellness (including her preventive mastectomy), style, and reviews of every kind. Read more about her adventures in Wyoming and learn how you can live a life of grit and grace at PrairieWifeInHeels.com. You can hear her every weekday morning from 6-10am on My Country 95.5FM as part of Doc and Prairie Wife in the Morning.  For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

Join us on Episode 12 with Sunni Almond of Going More Joe. You can find her on Facebook and Instagram at Going More Joe for the classical-curious.  For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The Restoring Cores Facebook group offers additional information related to movement, Pilates, Diastasis Recti, and many other healing and movement factors. Also, check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!  

“Mama Love” explores the Mind and Body Mama Coaching of Pilates Instructor Emilie Hoffman from Helena, Montana. Emilie uses a blend of Pilates and psychology based knowledge and provides postnatal coaching connecting mindset, emotional wellness and behavior. You can find more information about Emilie and what she does by checking out her Waxwing Pilates website, Emilie Hoffman Facebook page, or her Instagram @mindbodymamma.You can also join her Facebook group, MammaLove, to find a community of moms and moms-to-be. For any comments, questions or additional information about Restoring Cores and what we do, feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Check out the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs to create your own change!

Episode #10 explores the journey of Caitlin Rives Hatzenbuhler as she leaves a high-tech corporate marketing career to becoming a full-time Prenatal and Postnatal Pilates Instructor and studio owner. For any comments, questions or additional information feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also go to the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs.

How can Pilates teachers and movement specialist do our part when working with pre and postpartum women? Maternal deaths are often regarded as system fails in the United States, and we as movement specialists are part of that system. Episode #9 explores the safety and welfare of pre and postnatal women.  For any comments, questions or additional information feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also go to the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs.

How do women feel about their breasts? Are they symbols of womanhood? Episode #8 explores the overwhelming feelings and appreciation that women have about their breasts and the fears that are faced with Breast Cancer. For any comments, questions or additional information feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also go to the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs.

Most women discover as they approach certain milestones in their lives that Sex changes or for many it’s continual change. Today we explore the many seasons of sex from Pregnancy to Postnatal, Pre-menopause, Post-menopause and Beyond! For any comments, questions or additional information feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also go to the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs.

Welcome to Episode of #6 – “The Gift of Dancing”. Dancing presents a multitude of GIFTS from movement, health, enjoyment and communication. Today we are looking at how DANCING contributes to a better quality life. We explore how dancing can help with human development, healing, movement, longevity and expression.  For any comments, questions or additional information feel free to contact us at restoringcores1@gmail.com or find us on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and LinkedIn. You can also go to the Restoring Cores website for additional information and programs. 

This interview with Emily Encinosa of Expecting with Emily explores the life, purpose and joys of being a Doula and the many benefits a Doula can provide for both mom and baby.  Check out what Emily does! Instagram: expectingwithemily Facebook: Expecting with Emily Website: expectingwithemily.com    You can find more information about this and various other topics related to movement, health and change at restoringcores.com and well as the Restoring Cores Facebook group! 

Today we look at the myths or fears on aging and discover that there are things we can do to offset the aging process as well as discover the purpose, drive and enjoyment in our lives while we age.  Everyone is different, different life experiences, circumstances, environments, which makes every body and mind different.  It is an inevitable fact, we will grow old or older (or die), right?  Most people don’t look at aging until they have to, until they see wrinkles or find they are not moving like they used to. The word aging, promotes many emotions, both negative and positive. Words like been around the block, silver haired, blue haired, white haired, no spring chicken, on your last leg, fizzlin’ out, slowin’ down, becoming older, declining, fermenting, maturing, stale, getting on, senior, over-the-hill, retired, advancing, evolving. I tried to do it in one Pilates breath. Aging in America carriers weight. Let’s start with myths? A myth is a widely held but a false belief. It’s where we get mythology. When it comes to aging, myths have shaped our outlook, as well as our fears. The Frameworks Institute is an organization that identifies cultural norms that the public used to base an opinion or a fear about. A cultural norm is an attitude learned from family or friends that guide and often determine our behavior. This institute looks at research and a cultural norm and compares it to what is true and what is a myth. They’ve done that with aging. The Frameworks Institute have categorized aging like a Health Swamp. They explain it like a murky, dark, unpredictable, never knowing what’s underneath the mucky waters in America. Their biggest discovery is that our culture has developed ideas about aging that is not necessarily true and these mistruths have guided us into developing fears, and actually laws sometimes. Myths are a powerful thing. What guides these myths is information from social media, articles and ads in magazines, TV commercials, movies, even the mirror. Remember these not necessarily truth, they are myths. Today we’re going to talk about the first 3 myths according to the Frameworks Institute. Most older people will end up in nursing homes and will eventually lose their memory. Older people are completely responsible for how they age. There’s nothing to look forward to in aging.   I asked my friends about aging who are close to retirement age, threw it out on social media and tried digging deep for everyone’s opinion as to their own aging ideas. Most were brutally honest, most felt that aging was a real trip and they are attempting to embrace it will better attitude, more sex and movement. Everyone spoke of FEAR, as well, in particular, the three mentioned myth-fears. I’ve had older people around me my whole life. All my grandparents lived to be well in their 90s, highly productive and moving, and I’ve taken an interest in aging. I’m in an age study myself. My interest is aging started in my 30s when a conversation came up about the value of aging with my twelve year old daughter. We read a book entitled The Giver, by Lois Lowry. A 1994 controversial Newbery Medal book award. It’s an unusual book about community and characters, which you think at first is a utopia, where everything is perfect. You of course later discover that it is a dystopian society, the opposite of utopia, a society that dehumanizes their people, where there is no memory, no color, no choices in who you are or what you’ll be, no climate, no emotions and if you’re different, or not up to the norm that society thinks you should be, you were RELEASESED. They released children who were different, slower developers and the old, the aged. You later discovered that being RELEASED meant you were killed, erased. You did not fit in. My daughter was disgusted, she had two grandmas that epitomized strength. It put a light on aging for me. We can lose purpose when we age or lose our way briefly and often it’s due to fear. That’s when I decided I was not going to age the way everybody else ages. Wasn’t going to pay attention to fear. So I came up with my HALFTIME plan. That’s where I am today. It’s HALFTIME. What’s halftime? Just think basketball. Where you go to the locker room and discuss the front half of your game and plan for the next half. Well I am at halftime, a time where I can look at the front end of my life and all the life lessons, constrained choices and gifts I was granted. I can look at the next half and can then focus the best on the last half of my life where I had the complete choice or for the most part. I’m there now, at halftime. Aging is not easy, to see yourself change. The amazing part about aging and HALFTIME is you have the CHOICE in being the best you can be. Is there some fear? You bet. We can’t predict the future but we can mold it! The 1st myth and fear that the Framework Institute mentioned is that you end up in a nursing home. Only about 20% go to nursing homes to finish out their lives. That does not include people who have surgeries and go there for rehab. Science also tells us that cognitive impairment or memory loss doesn’t decline until age 85? Only 50% experience a decline. The problem is we expect it to decline which pushes the cart before the horse. We see information telling us it should decline as we age. It’s the same rate as most age groups. Think about how many times our child forgot their lunchbox, homework, backpacks, then think about the times you forget something! The really cool part about aging is you get to have selective memory. We are increasing our existence on earth in age, but not necessarily increasing our health as we age. Falls are still the top problem for older people but as whopping obesity issue is right behind falls. Obesity in ages 65 to 74 is the highest than any other group in America because of seniors eating pre-packaged foods and slowing down movement. The 21stcentury is presenting new challenges for scientists. The US Census Bureau predicts by 2030 that people 65 and over will inhabit 25% of earth’s inhabitants and will edge out children in population. They anticipate a demand for health care. In America, the general attitude is that we worship youth in our society, we don’t worship aging. Generally we don’t look at it until we have to look at it square in the eyes. Speaking with two experts on aging, they commented on this very same issue quite frankly. One was from America that had live in Africa, and she stated even though with Africa’s health crisis and govt. issues, one thing they did well was celebrate their elders and take care of them. The other, whose parents were from Japan said the same exact thing. They embraced their elderly and honored them. So is it America’s culture? When we get older does our value decrease? Generally speaking. The 2nd myth spoke of how older people are completely responsible for their aging. Genetics, according to the Centenarian studies, is the primary factor for aging fit and healthy. You don’t really have a choice as to who your patents are. Research says that the more education you have and use, the better health and fulfillment you’ll have as you age. While genetics and education play a part, it’s the functional part that provides independence as we age. It’s also the part we control. Research shows that the changes attributing to aging are actually caused largely by disuse of the body or lack of movement. Movement or exercise is not a fountain of youth, but it’s a good long drink of vitality! We need to move as we age. It’s estimated that in the last thirty years, neuroscientists have discovered that the brain is designed to improve with age. Not only can our bodies move, our brains can further develop too. Let’s look at the 3rd myth that there is nothing to look forward to as we age. Now, because I’m at halftime, I can take a different attitude about the ending of my life. If I’ve learned anything in the 1sthalf of my life, it’s this – “what you BELIEVE carries you”. Knowing and living by this has offset the mindset of aging. If you ask the 90 to 100 year old’s that still run, ski, hike, and move religiously their optimism and attitude carry them. For me at Halftime, I’ve learned how to be more optimistic, which is good because optimists live seven years longer than pessimists. And guess what? Optimism can be learned. So at halftime I use what I all a Hi-5, promoting the 5 Cs for the sole purpose of bettering ME and bettering YOU too as we all age. All 5 of these C words are woven into the concept of volunteerism to some degree. To volunteer, to give of yourself. Volunteerism helps you keep your eyes open wide to aging and to the choices you have! They stand for: Community– Many move to what is referred to as BLUE ZONES so they can be in communities that are just senior like. Research shows that if you are in a community of any kind, even creating one through volunteerism, makes your health better, increases your movement more, improves your life and offsets the aging process. Companionship– Having a family, friends to commune with research shows that you establish more wholesome relationships, which offsets aging and loneliness. You create companionship when you volunteer. Conversing– This is probably the most powerful piece according to science. Having a conversation with someone else is one of the biggest brain developers and remember our brains do continue to develop if we choose it to. Multi-cultural conversations, multi-generational conversations and even talking to yourself is found to increase your brain’s capacity. Core – I’m talking about the core of your body – your muscles, movement, strength training, the activities that get your blood flowing kind of movement. When you speak to highly functional 90 to 100 year old’s. They are always moving and exercising. Your body’s functions run smoothing when you move. Our bodies have the capabilities of getting better and stronger even at age 90! When you have a community with some level of companionship, you’re conversing daily and are actively moving it will lead to the 5th C. Confidence – Confidence means being comfortable with your own power. That’s one of the sweetness’s of growing older. If you are able to grow older with solid lifestyle choices, developing good habits of movement and developing your brain, you grow into yourself, finding an inner peace and happiness. Are there fears? Sometimes, but seeking, being aware of what we are capable of doing and being as we age, creates a better, more confident person. Growing older can mean you’re growing better and wise…BELIEVE IT! Contact Restoring Cores at restoringcores1@gmail.comfor your own free copy of the High 5 at Halftime pdf and with any additional questions or information.

Join us on episode #3 as we spend time with Mary Bond, teacher, author and movement legend. Subjects include how Ida Rolf altered her life and direction, how history and gravity has changed the body and how being “present” in the world can assist us in our body’s journey.   Mary gives advice to Pilates teachers and movement specialists and reveals a future change.     Check out the show notes on the Restoring Cores website for additional information for Mary Bond.         

Welcome to episode 2 on Obesity and Diastasis Recti. Most people know what obesity is, but you may not know about an abdominal condition called Diastasis Recti. Today we explore both and discover the commonalities of excessive fat and the gap!  Diastasis Recti, what is it? It’s often pronounced Diastasis and the word means “separation” and the word Recti is making reference to a pair of abdominal muscles that run down from your breast bone to your pubic bone. It’s the separation of these two abdominal muscles down the front of you that creates a gap that’s caused by abdominal pressure that’s not controlled that pushes out the connective tissue in-between the two muscles. It creates a gap! 100% of pregnant women get this because of their gravitational pull, pressure issues from a growing fetus and hormones. 60% of postnatal women seal and heal naturally while 40% do not – they are the ones we often refer to as having “mummy tummies” or a pooch. The part of a women abdominals that never tightens up and is soft and squishy, many women refer to as bread dough. Like pregnant women, many obese people have the same abdominal complications because they too are dealing with gravitational pulls, pressure issues caused by excessive fat and hormone imbalances that weaken connective tissue. Connective tissue is like your cellular glue that gives your body its shape. It keeps your joints and ligaments in their correct place so your muscles can do their job.  Imagine putting your hand in a rubber glove and your hand getting bigger and pushing out over a time; then you take the glove off – it causes the glove to be thinned and stretched out. It loses its elasticity, it’s buoyancy, it’s tension. That’s what happens when you have a diastasis. This gap threatens your support system for loading and lifting, and it compromises abdominal strength and stability, threatens spine health and creates pain in the back and hips, and pelvic floor issues can evolve from this! It makes it difficult to develop a powerhouse corset. Other people get this pressure issue like weightlifters, giving birth, those who are advancing in aging, sedentary lifestyles, genetics, rapid fluid in the abdominals or those with core dysfunction. You can see DRa in premature children, stroke victims and even athletes that are you think are fit. My mentor, Joseph Pilates, had Diastasis Recti which widened as he aged. He had what is referred to as a functional diastasis. Diastasis Recti, just like obesity, has many paths.  A diastasis is seen in repetitive sports like golf and hockey and in jobs that perform the same repetitive task, like my UPS man who for 20 years moved boxes in the same pattern-twisting way, not mindful of his twisting. He created a diastasis from repetitive movement. Then it snowballed into back and hip pain. He gained weight and he gained it in his abs. The number of people who have a diastasis is rising just like obesity! If you’ve had a diastasis for some times you gain weight in abdominals. That’s common. Being obese will most of the time create a diastasis. You might have a diastasis? Not trying to frighten you but consider a few things? Do you use your core? Has it changed? Do you gain weight in your abdominals? Do you have coning or doming? (An area that pops out, up or in when you lift, bend, or in flexion, breath, or move)? Do you find that no matter what you do, that your core does not move or activate, (carry the load)? Learn the Rec Check. An assessment often used in testing DRa. This is an insurance developed assessment using your fingers. Nonetheless it’s what we use as a detector of DRa until a doctor’s confirmation, measuring the width, length and depth and the consistency of the connective tissue line. Seek out confirmation from your doctor. When a diastasis is created, it becomes a weak link or a fault line of your body that creates other issues over time. You move less, while movement becomes less of a priority. Less movement equates to a shorter, more painful life span. Obesity causes you to have weak links or fault lines of the body as well, from physical ailments, diseases, movement issues, and a ton of conditions that shorten your life. When we are discovering why you have a diastasis there is usually more than one reason and when you are heavy, your obesity is due to more that one reason – usually a combination of genetics, or sedentary lifestyle/movement issues or unhealthy eating patterns. Obesity is soaring! 3 million plus reported each year! Obesity in our children is rising. Ages 2 to 5 has doubled and teens ages 13 to 19 has quadruples. If you are obese as a child, you have a 50% chance of becoming an obese adult. Obese at 19 years of age means a 90% chance of being obese as an adult! DRa is growing as well. It’s more common in adults, but children are now being identified with DRa. In other words, obesity and DRa does not discriminate. Nutrition plays a huge part in both obesity and DRa. If 90% of obese people get DRa it is a connective tissue issue or fascia and what you feed your body does impact fascia and muscle development, hormone production and overall health. Our children’s nutrition is declining in the US. If you haven’t visited a public school lunchroom. I challenge you to go for 5 consecutive days. The food we are giving our children and it’s lack of nutritional value is contributing to our country’s biggest epidemic. We start there at school and condition our children’s bodies to eat poor quality food, then add a family’s stress level, hectic lifestyle, with both parents working due to economics all equates to a serious health issue. That in itself will contribute to problems in health, connective tissue and obesity. A commonality that I’m beginning to see in the movement and Pilates field is the connection between obesity and Diastasis Recti and their connection is very much like the concept of the chicken and egg, because we can’t determine which one came first. DRa and the lack of connection and pain it causes can evolve in you becoming obese and being obese will most of the time cause a diastasis. Another commonality that both share is thata people generally learn to live with obesity and DRa. Sad, but true. Those that give up and take an “I’ll live with it” attitude suffer and regret not making better choices. We have a tendency to focus on the effects of these two issue – like the diseases that obesity creates and the pain and biomechanical problems that DRa creates, but obesity and DRa are similar in hope in finding ways. Fight fat and the gap. There is science, research and education that are becoming more geared to finding the causes of both as opposed to researching the effects so diligently. This is in order to better understand the preventive sides of both. Which is brining hope to the table. Hope of better health and fitness. This can be through… Discovering Preventative Paths – in finding ways to better balance in your body and world. You end up treating and finding answers to the cause as opposed to putting time and money into the effects of both obesity and DRa. There is a study of medicine called Obesity Medicine. They are a group that are like body detectives in finding all the keys so your body is better balanced, reduce weight and keep it off. They are the ones that produced research that says consistent movement is what assists you at keeping weight maintained. I thought movement helped you primarily to reduce weight. Don’t get me wrong, movement at any time is beneficial when it’s the correct movement. If you are obese, these doctors create paths for success. Obesity Medicine Association is one. The same thing exists with Diastasis Recti. More and more people are discovering that they have diastasis through information and DRa can be successfully treated through finding the BODY’S balance through correct movement. There are discoveries that is closing the gap too (Dr. Kathryn Debroinow). One being Emsculpt. Emsculpt is a body contouring device that cuts fat and strengthens muscles and seals DRa in 28% of its clientele. Science is moving. We are establishing more talented doctors and physical therapists who are paving a movement path, finding the missing keys that teaches us how to find overall balance in the body – that equals success. Awareness – Science also reveals that AWARENESS is becoming a vital part of the keys to successfully winning the battle over excessive fat and the gap. Research shows that when you participate in awareness groups or support groups you can increase your changes significantly in keeping the weight off and the gap closed and maintained. Become aware of how to better your body and by eating better, move smarter and focus on health more. Ability to remain CONSISTENT in your change and awareness. To be successful from beginning to end – research shows that stepping up to the plate literally every day in making change, making better choices, in lifestyles, diet and movement. Not being consistent has strong results of going back of being heavier and moving less.   When you make change, keeping it can sometimes be another battle, but winning the war is what it’s all about. Thanks for joining me today. What can you do to make change to better you today? If you are wondering if you might have DRa, check out our pdf, Diastasis Recti Protocol Guide or contact Restoring Cores. We can help you find a trained movement specialists or physical therapist to seal and maintain your DRa. It’s what Restoring Cores does! Join us next week when we have Mary Bond, a movement legend, with us discussing Everyday Movement and Parental Posture!