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🥰Treat Mom to some PILATES time this Mother’s Day! 🤗
Still looking for that perfect gift? Look no further than a gift card for one of our special Mother’s Day packages! Don’t miss your chance to show her how much she means to you!

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4 Private Sessions for $300 (savings of $100)
4 Group Classes for $100 (savings of $40)
4 Combo Package (2 Privates/2 Classes) for $200 (savings of $70)
Available for purchase through Sunday May 12th
Contact info in bio.

🥰Treat Mom to some PILATES time this Mother’s Day! 🤗
Still looking for that perfect gift? Look no further than a gift card for one of our special Mother’s Day packages! Don’t miss your chance to show her how much she means to you!

🧘🏽‍♀️🤸🏻‍♂️🏋🏽‍♀️

4 Private Sessions for $300 (savings of $100)
4 Group Classes for $100 (savings of $40)
4 Combo Package (2 Privates/2 Classes) for $200 (savings of $70)
Available for purchase through May 12th
Contact Info in bio

What's better than a good workout? A great recovery.

Stretching is essential to staying injury-free, but stretching can be tricky. Working out regularly means that you're going to get more flexible over time, but it also opens up the possibility of injuries like muscle strains and tears. That's why we recommend using our hypervolt therapy gun before and after your workout! The heat from this handheld device will warm up cold muscles, making them easier to stretch before your workout—and it'll help them recover after your workout as well.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

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The art of balance is all about finding the right mix between holding on and letting go.⁠
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When it comes to strength and fitness, you have to make sure that you're doing both. You need to hold onto your past achievements—but you also have to let go of any fear of failure or embarrassment. You need to be able to stand up for yourself, but also be able to get back up when you fall.⁠
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It's not always easy, but if we can all remember the importance of balance in life, then we'll find ourselves better equipped for anything that comes our way!

If you must doubt something, doubt your limits.⁠
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A good workout can shake the weight of the world off your shoulders.

Isn't it time you started challenging yourself in the gym with workouts that make you stronger in your everyday life?

You know what we're talking about: those workouts that are so much fun, you can't wait to do them again. That's what we're all about at Illuminate Pilates. We believe in creating a community where everyone can feel comfortable and welcome, regardless of their experience level or fitness goals.

We also believe in challenging ourselves—we want you to challenge yourself too! We want our members to leave feeling like they've gotten something out of the workout, whether it's a better understanding of their body or just an hour or two where they felt like they were really doing something great for themselves.

Proper form and feedback is the foundation to a quality workout.

✨ Treat Yourself like the Gem that You Are ✨
Do you like the following?….
✅ Fitness
✅ Jewelry
✅ Mimosas
✅ ALL OF THE ABOVE
… If you answered YES 🙋🏽‍♀️ to any of these, you won’t to miss out on our next 💎Fitness and Fine Jewelry 💎
Event!
Details below:

📍: Kendra Scott City Centre
816 Town and Country Blvd SUITE 131, Houston, TX 77024
📆 : Sunday February 27th
⏰: 10am: Pilates and strength workout
11am-1pm: Mimosa Bar and discounts on jewelry
🎟: $10/person, space is limited. Sign up on eventbrite, link in bio.

✨ Don’t put a PERIOD where your life was meant to have a COMMA.✨
As this New Year approaches
Don’t STOP (settle/give up) at a hard moment in life. You have to choose to continue to S.T.A.R.T.
1. S-top making excuses, choose to be stronger than you’re strongest excuse.
2. T- ake an inventory of your life, don’t focus on the negative and overlook the blessings.
3. A- ct in faith
4. R- efocus and renew your mind on the future and not just where you’ve been hurt.
5. T- rust even when you can’t track the answer/path.

✨If there is an area of your life that’s robbing you of your PEACE…
Then it’s too expensive.✨
To have sustained PEACE we have to learn to Relinquish control
✅ Have faith that you don’t have to fix everything yourself.
✅Pursue Connection- you have to choose connection (friends, family, therapists, connect/support groups)
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✨PEACE is not about what you’re looking at, but who you’re looking to✨
The Holiday season is such an amazing time but can also bring on a lot of stress and worry. When life feels overwhelming and you don’t know how you’re going to get through it… know you are not alone.
Life is not always going to be perfect and peaceful and we will deal with the following situations:
1. Unavoidable circumstances
2. Unbearable people
3. Unexplained problems
4. Uncontrollable Worrying

It is a gift to have peace through these situations, but we have to be open to:
1. Receive his pardon
2. Rely on his plan
3. Respect his principles
4. Run to his presence

✨ Fix YOUR Focus on YOUR Vision. ✨

Misaligned FOCUS:
❌No vision - no real plan, living on autopilot
❌Wrong vision - it “feels” right, but yields the undiagnosed Distractions.
❌Vague vision - no real direction or impact on how to achieve.

Fixed FOCUS:
✅Have a plan and guidelines
✅Have an accountability partner
✅Fix your vision on something specific
For more info visit

If we want to make room for future happiness, we have let go of past hurts. Let this holiday season be a time to reflect, forgive, and rebuild.
Go into this holiday season with a happy mind and heart. For more information check out

✨Trauma is a fact of life, but it doesn’t have to be a way of life. ✨
We have all had good and bad relationships and it is important to recognize both. (Friends, parents, co-workers, etc.) Trauma Bonds can be cyclical and keep us from growing. We have to
1. Recognize them
2. Release them
3. Rebuild healthy relationships in place of them.
Go into this holiday season with a healthy mind and heart. For more information on releasing trauma bonds check out

WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS

Want those strong pilates abs everybody’s always talking about and tired of neck and back pain!?

DON’T do this ❌
DO this ✅
1️⃣ Hundred/ Abs crunch
❌ Chin not tucked (causing neck tension)
❌ Shoulders shrugged/elevated
❌ Abs pushed out/not engaged

✅ Chin tucked (neck in neutral)
✅ Scapula Neutral w. Shoulders Depressed
✅ Flexed up from rib cage (Abs/core drawn in)
Try these tips for your next ab workout and let us know how it feels!

Tag a friend to join you for a sit-up challenge!

✨We were built for battle, but no battle has been won alone… it takes a team and a coach to help us through our blindspots. ✨
It’s important to surround yourself with a group of people that will challenge you to Repurpose your passion, redirect your anger, and realign your priorities. (Connect groups, friends, church, etc.)
and a strong coach to help you transfer Pain into power, Trials into testimonies, and Messes into messages. (God, mentors, therapists, etc.)
For more details visit

WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS

Want strong legs and glutes but dread the knee or back discomfort!?
DON’T do this ❌
DO this ✅
1️⃣ Lunges (lateral view)
❌ Abs not engaged
❌ Knee tracking past toes
❌ Front heel elevated/ weight in toes

✅ Abs/core engaged
✅ Knee directly over ankle
✅ Weight distributed evenly throughout front foot with emphasis into the heel

2️⃣ Lunges: anterior view
❌ core not engaged, causing side bending and balance issues
❌ Hip tracks out laterally, glutes not engaged
❌ knee falls inward

✅ abs engaged, body stacked over pelvis
✅ Hip hugged in, Glutes engaged
✅ knees lined up with hip and 2nd/3rd toe

🦵🏽🦵🏽Try these tips for your next leg day and let us know how it feels! 🍑🍑
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✨ Don’t waste the lessons you can learn through your struggles ✨
The quickest way out of your pain is to go through it, and the quickest way to go through your pain is to recognize that he will use it. When you get to that moment where you can say, “lesson learned, and I’m ready to apply!” then you can begin to walk in your purpose!
These last couple years have been tough on everyone in numerous ways, but YOU are still here and that means YOU still have a purpose! Don’t be mad at your struggles…learn from them, study them, embrace them, be thankful for them, grow from them… and then go change the world through them!

WELLNESS WEDNESDAYS

Always struggling with tight shoulders and sharp pain with upper body movements?!?
DON’T do this ❌
DO this ✅
1️⃣ Shoulder External Rotation:
❌ Shoulder elevated/ Internally Rotated
❌ Elbow away from body
❌ Broken wrist

✅ Neutral Shoulder - set down & back
✅ Elbow tucked next to body
✅ Strong/Tight fist/ Neutral Wrist
Try these tips for stronger rotator cuff muscles and let us know how it feels!
PS. Who else feels like they make crazy faces when they are trying so hard to do the right movements!? 🤪

Want nice strong shoulders without neck and shoulder pain?
DON’T do this ❌
DO this ✅
1️⃣ Open Elbows/Rear Delt Fly side view:
❌ Forward Head
❌ Rounded Thoracic Spine
❌ Abs not activated
❌ Hands Rotate Forward (internal rotation)

✅ Head in line with Shoulders
✅ Neutral Thoracic Spine
✅ Abs drawn in (braced to protect low back)
✅ Wrist in line with Elbows (external rotation)

2️⃣ Open Elbows/Rear Delt Fly posterior view:
❌ Excessive Upper Trap Activation
❌ Arms Elevated above Shoulder Height

✅ Mid/Lower Trap Activation
✅ Arms in line with Shoulders