This week marks the One Year Anniversary of the world shutting down. Studios and gyms closing, art galleries and broadway shows closing down. Marks the start of a gazillion purchases of masks and shields and gloves and sanitizers. The anniversary of no touching, no hugging and no kissing and new meaning to distance learning. The script was flipped on us all and the aftermath was chilling. I am going to leave the nightmare alone and revel in the way the script was re-flipped this year….at least in my mind’s eye.
Last week, on Thursday, I had my regular bi-monthly semi with Brett Howard and Jeanette. In between work, moans and laughs, we always chat about the goings and comings in the Pilates community, the world at large and our personal lives. This session time with them is a continuation of our work together before the lockdown. It has been a welcome salve through all of 2020. We all have had at least one Covid-19 vaccine and Friday, I joined Jeanette in receipt of my 2nd vaccine shot and thus set myself up and almost all of my private client crew for sessions without masks in less than 14 days. This means also that there will be a lot more hugging, touching and kissing returning to my life. Major Win!
This week I get to workout with three #2ndGenMasters on three different pieces of apparatus; a Monday crew of usually 3-5 on the Spine Corrector with Clare Dunphy; a Wednesday crew of 3-5 with Phoebe Higgins; and a Sunday crew of 10 in a MasterClass on the Reformer with Saul Choza. All of these connections and workouts started in the year of the lockdown, as a result of the lockdown and are the “sweet lemonade” we made as a result of the lemons thrown at us by way of the lockdown. Humongous Win!!
This month marks the sixth (6th) month of sold-out PilatesSisterSquad MasterClass Workouts with #2ndGenMaster teachers worldwide and the third (3rd) month of a full year of scheduled sessions; most of which are already filled. Maria Earle and Alycea Ungaro delivered nothing short of magic in their respective, exceptional sessions enjoyed by over 30+ #PilatesSisters and set the stage for the stellar work that the virtual world has created for us as creatives and Pilates Teachers. Gigantic Win!!!
Historically, the Ides of March are specifically the fifteenth day of the months of March, May, July, or October, and the thirteenth day of the remaining months. The Ides were the designated days for settling debt each month in the Roman empire and generally included the seven days preceding the Ides for this purpose. No doubt debtors who could not pay their debts considered the Ides to be unlucky days as they were typically thrown into prison or forced into slavery.
As the word ‘ides’ refers to the middle of the month, the Ides of March is on March 15. Contrary to popular superstitious belief surrounding its origins, Ides simply marks the first day of the full moon in every month, typically falling between the 13th and 15th.
The unlucky pall over the Ides of March has a more portentous tie to ancient Rome. Roman Emperor Julius Caesar was famously unlucky on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. when he was assassinated by his senators, fearing their ruler was becoming a dictator.
Source: https://nationaltoday.com/
Obviously I am throwing all the unlucky, bad news, superstitiousness out the window with the embrace of March 15th this year. It’s all about new moon energy, the rites of spring, fresh starts, early morning text messages with #PilatesSisters (cause we know we are all awake anyway) landmark legislation, and the first 100 days of the Dems turning the world around that will keep my attention and focus. Tsunami-Size Win!!!!
We have come a long way, and we still have a really horrible long way to go with respect to far too many issues; pandemic, racism, sexism, etc. In the past year, our connections and crew members have expanded and I am with the bunch marching in lock step toward more of the wins.
