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*FIND me ELSEWHERE*

Hi All! I’ve been spinning my brain (& finger) wheels faster and faster lately it seems, & am generating more content than I care to upload here on a daily basis.  Henceforth, please FIND + FOLLOW me on Facebook & Instagram:  @macgregor.movement If you are interested in a session, workshop, or consultation, please email: macgregor.movement@gmail.com Sessions can also be done remotely, via SKYPE and its ilk, & are a meaningful gift for yourself or for a loved one no matter where you live. I’m excited to be able to reach more people in more phases of life around the globe, & to share some useful human anatomy info + movement guidance as it pertains to a variety of personal needs and goals. In the meantime, wishing you & yours a happy, healthy year ahead, with lots of continued movement & learning. XO/M

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As a native Austinite/Texan & recent Reno transplant by way of nearly 15 years in NYC, I count myself *so* fortunate to have found & landed in the wonderful world that is Purely Pilates. Our studio is beautifully dedicated to education, life balance, & sound movement opportunities for all! Whatever your movement needs & desires may be, bring them to the Purely Pilates table & we will meet you there with whole heart, mind, & body. 😉 Together, we will get you moving well & growing strong. 💪🏼👌🏼🙌🏻

Tonight, check out Karen Schaefer's Group Reformer class @ 5:30p! And don't forget, first time visitors to the studio all receive a free class *or* free private session (...which is pretty amazing + rare). ➡️🆕🆓🆒⬅️

So bring your friends & let's share the joy + health of moving mindfully, diminishing pain, & building strength to support happy joints over time that will allow you to do all the awesome things you want to do in life, for many years to come:)

🤸🏼‍♀️🏌🏿🏇🏾🤽🏽‍♀️🚴🏿🏋🏼‍♀️🤺🤾🏾‍♂️🏂⛷🏊🏿‍♀️🤺🤼‍♀️🏃🏻‍♀️🕺🏾💃🏽🙃

...To your health! 👏🏼 Molly MacGregor

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#wordstoliveby #thebest #noonecares (#keepgoing)

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I was #lucky enough to #work with this #lady for a #magical #spell at kinectedNYC. The lovely Anula Maiberg/Sixth Street Pilates + Pilates Anytime: 🤓👌🏼

— at The Studio At Padaro Beach - Pilates Anytime/Yoga Anytime.

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Today's Movement Practice: More more more unpacking in our new home!

Some days physicality manifests in ways that don't involve a studio. ..And that's okay. 😉 . 🚛📦🗑🛠💡🛋🛁🛏🌱🏡🚪🗝😍

. #crosscountry #move #nyc --> #reno #transplant #transcend #work to #live with #balance and #joy

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Yesterday I met a client who wants to work on the ladder barrel twice a week. ...Which is rad! 🆙

One of the things I love the most about Pilates is its moldability & the creativity it can offer any/every body. . I'm super-interested to know: If you could describe your ideal movement experience/practice, what language would you use? What would that look like, sound like, feel like, for you? . Let me know; send me a note! ... And may you craft it often, well, + joyfully. ☺️ _ #motionislotion what's your #cupoftea? #global #movement #local #stability #extrinsic #intrinsic #strength #resiliency #adaptability get those #endorphins

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What did the #skeleton order for #dinner? ............SPARE #RIBS!!! 💀🍖🤣

- #anatomy #chuckles and #you #meatonyourbones #haironyourchest #itswhatsfordinner 🍽

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Meet IOLET!!

Iolet and I first crossed paths at #ADF in the very early #2000s. #Pilates would put us back in each other's #orbits again, nearly fifteen years later! I am so fortunate that it did, as she is a #zen #gem 💎 of #clarity, #groundedness, & #calm, in both #fair + #stormy ⛈ times. . Read on for #thoughts from Iolet on our #work #together: .

"My #sessions with Molly helped me #connect the #brain in my head to the brain in my #body. Hours hunched over school books or working at a laptop had all kinds of stuff tighten up, or fall asleep completely. It got to a point where I didn't even recognize myself! Molly had a very patient and easy-going way of leading our sessions and working with my particular concerns. She had a knack for incorporating #challenges that were safe and effective--even on days when my #gluteals would not cooperate! I always gained a #sense of #openness in body, #mind and #spirit after our sessions."

. . . #makingtime #foryou — in New York, New York.

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Mini #THROWBACK to this morning's #magical #breakfast: #Fresh #figs & #coffee!

A #gift from my grandparents-in-law, straight from the #earth. 🌱🌿🌳🍃

. . . to your #health + #wellness #dirtisgood #cleaneating #raw #whole #food #feed your #motor keep it #local keep it #happy — at Reno Tahoe.

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ECLIPSE2017

Zooming out today & thinking of movement in the large-scale. Planets, stars, & moons, (re/e)volving, growing, dying. CHANGING, dynamic. . And us, doing the same, in our own time, with each other. . Here's to your arc, your journey, your dimmings & your brightenings. 🌚🌝

_ 📷| S. Ezrapour

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#Moved & #Moving #SNAP it out

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Wonderful writing by Madeline Black for anyone interested in the biotensegrity model of human form + movement / ANYONE WITH A BODY!

"Biotensegrity is a biological-tension-integrity model, a term credited to Dr. Stephen Levin, who saw that living structures demonstrate similar qualities of the tensional integrity being used in architecture and engineering since the mid-twentieth century. Today, biotensegrity is a useful model for a different perspective on human anatomy and form. It intuitively feels like a metaphor for whole body connecting forces affecting our movement potential. This is how we dance, move in Gyrotonic®, yoga, Pilates, sports, and all human movement.”

”...First, we have to understand the principles of tensegrity (tensions and integrity) and relate this to movement. The principles of the tensegrity concept are that a structure is a tension-compression network with connectedness of all parts supporting discontinuous struts. This definition in the human body looks like this: the myofascia is the continuous connectedness and the bones are the struts. Our bones are not in direct contact with one another, or shouldn’t be, and are thereby discontinuous. The bones are suspended or appear to be floating, supported by the connective tissue. The myofascial connective tissues are the web of tension and compression suspending the bones.

Another principle is that each part is reliant on the entire structure for its ability to move. There is a parsimonious nature to biotensegrity: doing less for more, efficiency of movement. Tensegrity models have no lever arms or fulcrums. This challenges our idea of stability and disassociation of limbs moving in relation to the pelvis for instance. Forces are transferred globally throughout the entire structure. The whole body is dynamically linked so that forces are instantly translated everywhere. You raise your arm up, the trunk shifts, and the weight changes on the legs. A movement has an associated response body-wide. It is not an isolation of one muscle or bone. ... It is helical in nature ... spiraling in four dimensions, the fourth dimension of time. The tensegrity forms show how forces act upon the body and can help explain function and dysfunction in movement."

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TONIGHT's #MOVEMENT #PRACTICE:

#Dancing with Joywave, Cold War Kids, & Young the Giant!

Thank you for #rocking it out all #night for us, for your #artistry, for your #hope, for #sharing your #time with us, & for all the years of #singing along -- & dancing -- I've been lucky enough to do with your delicious #tunes in my ears. 👂🏽🙏🏻👏🏼🙌🏻

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^ Purely Pilates Party Perfection 🤓👍🏻

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Actually packed them in a box (3 weeks ago), & look how well they did! Proof that we can grow + thrive, even in times of crushing darkness and tempestuous jostling about. 😉

#darkestbeforedawn #natureknows #green #growth #patience #steady #determined #natural #fight toward the #light

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Great first experience working with >THESE< little ladies, today! ... Whole new meaning to #shoulder #stability & #bracing. Thanks Taylor Lamanna Pilates + Purely Pilates! - #bodhi #suspension #system - 📷| Green Olive Photography / Pure Movement Studio

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Why is your nose in the middle of your face? 🤷🏽‍♀️ ...Because it's the SCENTER!! 👃🏽🤥🙋🏾🔝

#hahanatomy 📸| Cleveland Clinic 🤣| My elementary school 🎶 teacher:)

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All things in moderation, but we are surely meant to move.