L.M. Melfi Pages
because everyone loves to get a little extra!
I am so happy you have taken a moment to explore and found this section.
Here I share with you my other passion: writing!
Please visit this section for Pilates Articles and resources for you to use both in the studio and at home, as well as my fictional writings & poetry.
In this section you will also gain access to sample chapters of my debut fiction novels.
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Enjoy & thank you ~
LM Melfi
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Light Changes by Lynn M. Melfi
when the light changes and it drops from the sky at a different time it's sometime between push the clocks back and Turkey day I see the sky through the window, and I remember well, I feel I feel that last holiday my mother greeted me at the door eyes smiling with her...
‘flow’
The Classical Pilates Method encourages you to work with a fluid pace and flow. Having an initial introduction to teacher training through a contemporary school, I was not seeing the method as a whole. I was seeing individual exercises to pick and choose. Once I...
Oh, is that what you mean, when you always say…?
Repetition, pace, doing the same exercise on different apparatus, figuring out the physics of an exercise (what energy is going down and what energy is going up to make this exercise possible), visualizing the lines of two way stretch in a particular exercise,...
Symphony of Movement
In my personal practice, within different exercises, I play with all four movements of a symphony. Which are: brisk and lively, slower and more lyrical, energetic and boisterous play and a rollicking finale. Just as in a symphony when one movement ends, the next...
‘ease’
I first heard the cue, “find the ease of the exercise” while working in private zoom sessions with Jennifer Kries. She would say it when I was first learning the Classical Method and I would think to myself, “What is she nuts?” The work was challenging and required my...
Oak Roots by: LM Melfi
Buried in the earthWhere the mighty oak growsDeep within its rootsLies the truth to expose~ PART ONE “A lie would make no sense unless the truth was felt to be dangerous.” Carl Jung November 1980 ...
Hawthorne Blossoms
A life that takes its first breath beneath The Hawthorne Blossoms, forever exists in a state of duality, a source of both refuge and affliction; many blessings and sorrows for those who embrace the sacred Hawthorne. August 1955 The tattered seagull perched high...
The Ash Moon
As the sacred Ash Tree attracts lightning, the child born under The Ash Moon attracts our one true life ~ Lynn M. Melfi “Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.” William Faulkner 1962 The nurse...
supposed to be 001
Do you lose sight of who you are and what you are meant to do? In the chaos of life, work, family, commercialism; the self will often become absorbed and distorted. We act, react and make decisions without even having a real sense of who we are...
hang tight 002
To” hang tough” and “hang in there” are terms used to applaud heroic and idolized behavior. But what about when it takes more strength, more determination and character to let go? As long as the spirit is willing and the body...