Modern Body: Pilates & Movement for Life

Tina Scholl, former physical therapist and creator of The Balanced Facewalks Aly through the habits that shape how a face ages and the simple tools that can redirect them. This isn’t your typical facial care discussion that centers on med-spa treatments or the elaborate application of topical cleansers, serums, and moisturizers. Instead, Tina advocates for small, doable habits added into your normal routine that focus on enhancing beauty that shines from within. She explains how facial muscles differ from our other muscles and how she treats the face as part of the whole body. Tina coaches Aly in real time: she leads her through a face hug and demonstrates a knuckle release where the neck meets the skull, Listeners are challenged to claim a few minutes of every day for themselves without guilt. It’s a conversation about trading the anti-aging chase for a face that feels as good as it looks.

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Hypermobility isn’t a problem if you know how to work with it. This week, Aly brings back a segment from an earlier episode to share how she would coach clients with hypermobile joints. Aly also points out what you should avoid if you have a hypermobile body. Even if you don't have this trait, Aly's advice will still be helpful in helping you build stability and mobility. Hypermobility never goes away but you can learn to support your bodies with the tips and techniques Aly shares.

Listen to the original full episode: Ep. 55: Hypermobility Explained: Strategies to Support Your Joints in your Movement & Mobility Training

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Hip flexors can give us a lot of discomfort but in this monthly mini episode, Aly argues they're just responding to how we live: hours at a desk, miles of running, long flights, and core classes that park the legs in tabletop. She revisits an early episode where she explains what hip flexors really are and why tightness can signal muscles that are overworked, underworked, or overstretched. Aly shares 4 strategies you can do during Pilates sessions to bring relief to the tension, grippiness, and stress your hip flexors may experience, and she spotlights specific classes inside the Modern Body Studio that you can start taking today to begin.

Listen to the original full episode: Ep 19: Only feeling your hip flexors working during core work? Get to the root of your Hip Flexor pain

Check out the classes Aly mentions: Hip Flexor Offload : Glute Awakening : Coffee Pilates No. 3, Hip Fika

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Rib flare. It's the subtle shift in rib cage position that can surface during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, or while your body compensates for an old back injury or ongoing stress. In this replay episode, Aly separates the two distinct types of rib flare: positional and angular. She flags the everyday clues to watch for like a bra band that suddenly rides up, a shallow exhale, or tight shoulders that won't ease. Rather than treating rib flare as permanent, Aly maps out the breathwork, alignment cues, and specific Modern Body classes that start shifting things in weeks, not months. Catch your ribs jutting forward in the mirror? This episode explains why, and what to do about it.

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Endless crunches and planks rarely build the strong core people are chasing and in this episode, Aly explains why. The real bottleneck is pressure management: how the diaphragm, pelvic floor, and transverse abdominis coordinate as a system, not isolated parts. She walks through the sequencing that gets these muscles firing in the right order, and explains why alignment between ribcage and pelvis matters more than how hard you're working. And an added benefit is a quieter nervous system. Pulled from a fan-favorite segment on abdominal coning and doming, this episode hands you a five-minute reset you can run through anywhere, whether that's flat on the floor, hands and knees, or standing at the kitchen counter. Anyone stuck cycling through core work without relief, especially those dealing with lower back pain or pelvic floor dysfunction.

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Check out the full episode from this week's compilation here:

Ep. 62: Abdominal Coning and Doming: What's Really Going on in Your Core and What To Do About It

Other referenced episode here:

Ep. 45: The 3 Step Cycle to Better Breathing

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Aly digs back through the Modern Body archives to pull three segments that paint a complete picture of how Pilates reshapes posture over time. In this compilation episode, she breaks down what posture actually is, why gravity and daily habits gradually impact how you stand and move, and why Pilates works from the inside out to help build a more supportive posture. The segments selected feature the pelvis, unpacking neutral versus imprint and why chasing one "correct" position misses the point entirely. Change happens through repetition and awareness, not through overnight fixes or rigid rules, and knowing your own patterns is the real starting point for lasting change.

Check out the full episodes from this week's compilation here:

Ep 2: Pilates Approach to Better Posture

Ep. 47: Can Pilates Change Your Posture? The Science of Postural Theory and Muscle Balance

Ep. 98: Movement Habits & Patterns and How They Affect Your Posture

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Aly sits down with fascia movement educator Kath Pent to explore the underestimated importance of facial health. Kath shares what current research reveals about fascia as a body-wide sensory network, why force travels between structures far from where discomfort actually shows up, and why the field keeps outpacing anyone's ability to master it fully. She and Aly dig into where fascia work diverges from muscle-focused practices like Pilates, touching on slings, elasticity, and the gap between training strength and training glide. Kath shares practical, low-lift ways to weave fascia care into everyday movement, including a simple expand-then-soften technique built on what she calls the sponge principle. Small shifts in attention and approach can unlock changes that muscle-focused training alone tends to miss.

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Aly shares a question she keeps circling back to after years in the movement industry: what's the actual point of moving your body? We all answer this question for ourselves, but Aly shares how her response guides the creation of Modern Body content. Her answer treats movement like a recipe using interesting combinations of Pilates, strength work, mobility, fascia, and dance. These ingredients stand fine on their own but they turn into something far more satisfying once combined, and that blend allows the body to move in every direction, without limits. The episode also previews week four of summer camp, "Enjoy the Ride," where Aly brings all four weeks' themes together into full-body classes, fresh fascial flow sessions, and sequences designed to build on the strength and body awareness from prior weeks.

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It’s almost Week 3 of Summer Camp at Modern Body and Aly kicks it off by making a case for strength training that goes beyond lifting heavy. Instead of chasing progressive overload alone, she breaks down how muscle fibers, weight loads, and planes of motion all work together on a spectrum, and why Pilates and heavier lifting complement rather than compete with each other. The week ahead mixes body weight, bands, and everything from light to heavy loads across five classes, all built around the idea that strength isn't one dial set to max, but a range you learn to move through depending on what your day actually asks of you.

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Referenced Episode:

Ep. 67: Are you training all muscle fiber types in your movement practice?

Aly kicks off Week 2 of Summer Camp with Conscious Core Continuity. Inspired by watching her own baby learn how to move, Aly desiged Week 2 to recreate the experiences most humans have in the first year of life: lying still, rolling, sitting, crawling, standing. The core never stops working, conscious or not, and training that connection deliberately on the mat builds strength that will carry you through your life off the mat. Forget stacks of crunches. Aly draws on muscles far beyond the abs, mixing shortening, lengthening, isometric, stabilizing, and mobilizing work so nothing repeats but everything connects. Each day builds on the last, and by Friday, sequences that felt out of reach snap into place.

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