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Welcome back to week 14 of Pilates With Marilyn

My name is Marilyn Harder, I am a master trainer and pilates instructor

This week we will continue our exploration of myofascial release from episode 7. What you’ll need some sort of foam roller. My favorite is a grid roller that has a hard plastic inside and dense foam on the outside.

However, if you have sensitive tissue you may want a solid foam roller but if you have neither and want to make one at home, all you’ll need is a bath towel, folded hotdog style then hamburger and laid on out, a hard water bottle, I used a tall one that is metal. I am going to rolling it into the bath towel, creating a pseudo grid roller. Hard on the inside, softer and dense on the outside. Now if one bath towel won’t be enough, you can always roll a second bath towel, creating a softer more gentle surface. Then secure it using any sort of tie. I love show laces, they are the easiest to procure, and then you just tie it on each side of that grid roller. That way the bath towel won’t move once you’re into our grid rolling sequence.

What are the benefits of myofascial release? It is basically a poor man’s massage. It allows us to flush the tissue, help increase tissue tensity, the way we can engage muscles, elongate muscles. It will allow us to have more power and performance in those muscles because those muscle fibers will be elongated and will be allowed to be contracted more deeply.

I hope you join us for myofascial release this week and as always thank you for supporting Pilates With Marilyn.

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Marilyn Harder

Marilyn Harder is an ambassador of all things self love and self care. She holds both a Master’s Degree in Business (MBA) and a Bachelors of Science in Psychology from UC Davis and well over 60 certifications in the movement and wellness industry. She has an advanced knowledge of kinesthetic movement that she acquired in her work with dysfunctional movement patterns in a 55 and older retirement community. She works primarily as a Pilates Master Trainer and has taken over 150 people through the 500 hour comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training program. Concurrently, she works as Bowenwork practitioner and a Restorative Wellness Practitioner both as additional modalities to troubleshoot healing and optimal wellness. She utilizes her education in all realms (psychology, movement, naturopathic health and nutrition) in her approach to beauty. What we put on and in our bodies matters but not nearly as much as HOW and WHY we do so. Marilyn approaches health and beauty through a triad -movement, nutrition and self care. Out of self care, self love is born. And out of self love authentic purpose, passion, and works are done. She believes that all pursuit of happiness and purpose begins by anchoring yourself spiritually and loving yourself through the eyes of God.