Free Tutorial: Side Bend with the Flex-Band®

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Looking to bring more fluidity and strength into your Pilates practice? In this free tutorial, Kana Funabashi, Merrithew® Lead Instructor Trainer and Co-Founder of Sky Pilates Tokyo, explores the Side Bend with the Flex-Band®—a movement that blends stability, mobility and control into one seamless exercise experience.

Using the resistance and feedback of the Flex-Band, Kana demonstrates how this exercise can challenge balance while encouraging greater freedom through the spine and torso. As the body moves through lateral flexion, the obliques, shoulders and deep stabilizing muscles work together to create support, coordination and dynamic movement control.

Throughout the tutorial, you’ll gain insight into how mindful movement and proper alignment can transform the quality of the exercise. Kana also shares ways to create more stability through the shoulders and pelvis, maintain connection through the core and move with greater ease and precision. Progressions are introduced to help deepen the challenge, making the exercise adaptable for a wide range of movement goals and experience levels.

Whether you’re teaching clients or refining your own movement practice, the Side Bend with the Flex-Band offers an engaging way to explore balance, strength and mobility from a whole-body perspective.

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