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63 | Making Pilates Accessible with Patty Dean

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She's So Lucky

Balancedblackgirl, Self-improvement, #Shessolucky, Balancedles, Business, Entrepreneurship, Lesalfred, Education

4.8 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest Patty Dean, also known as Patty Pilates, has been teaching classical Pilates for 20 years. Through her teaching, she has worked with celebrity clients, athletes, children of all abilities and everyone in between. 

Patty Pilates Style actually started when she was a fashion stylist assistant for a celebrity stylist and fell in love with the method. After being a stay at home Mom she decided to go back to teaching Pilates by making it a little more affordable to Black folks and my Inglewood community. 

Her motto is,  “if you have a spine, a stomach and breath you can do Pilates...I can work with you”. She has witnessed endless life-changing testimonies when a client is committed to the Pilates method. She has worked with a vast spectrum of bodies and is grateful to continue working with more -- especially with Black folks.

In this episode, we talk about…

  • Building community through genuine connections.
  • The origins, mental, and physical benefits of Pilates.
  • Making Pilates accessible.
  • Modeling self-care for our children and communities.

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Balance Black Girl Podcast. We're putting Black Girl Magic in motion.

0:07.0

This show is dedicated to reinventing wellness for women of color.

0:11.0

I'm your host Lestrandra Alfred.

0:13.6

Hello friends, how are you doing?

0:18.0

I feel like that is a pretty loaded question these days and I also think it's okay to have more than one answer.

0:28.0

I've had a lot of people asking me that question lately and the answer I give definitely depends on who I'm talking to and their ability to either handle the true answer or my energy level when it comes to wanting to kind of describe

0:48.0

how I am.

0:49.0

Do you know what I mean?

0:50.0

Do you ever have those times where someone asks how you are and you so appreciate it?

0:55.2

You appreciate them asking.

0:56.8

However, the energy it would take to explain how you are is just not where it's at in that moment. I get it and that has how I felt

1:06.8

quite a bit these past few weeks. Over the past few weeks there have been just so many incredible things that have come from a

1:15.9

really tough situation that we find ourselves in all around the world I feel like

1:20.7

I have seen creators and healers and helpers from all over offering their

1:27.8

craft, offering their services, creating much needed space, which has been such a beautiful thing to see.

1:35.0

One thing that has stuck out to me is all of the resources for maintaining our wellness and for helping us move our bodies during this time and I have to say I mean as a

1:48.4

former fitness gal I love to see it I love to see all of the fitness pros doing their thing. I love to see how innovative

1:58.9

and incredible, some of the really incredible wellness entrepreneurs have been in pivoting and in providing their

2:06.8

services in a virtual format and definitely encourage you if you do feel so compelled to check some of those out and we can have

2:15.4

some things like in the show notes we've been sharing also on the Balance Black Girl

2:20.3

podcast Instagram account just things that we see of offerings that we have and

2:24.6

just sharing them so that you have plenty of opportunities to support, to move your body

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