Proust and Pilates with Alwynn

If you’re like us, you skip straight to the last page when you buy vanity fair to read the latest celeb Proustian interview then you will get this! And, we’ve called it Proust and Pilates for obvious reasons. Please enjoy this new feature!

Interviewee: Alwynn Taylor

Your fav virtue: Courage

Fav qualities in a human: Passion

Chief characteristic: Nurturing

What do you appreciate most in your friends: Humour, compassion and trust

What do you value most about community: Belonging, social interaction and shared values

Favourite Pilates exercise to teach: Toss-up. Mermaid and back splits

If you could have any other profession what would it be: Sports psychologist

What do you appreciate most in your Pilates practice: getting lost in the moment and movement where time doesn't seem to matter. As I age I appreciate my practice in other ways. Grip strength, balance and bone strength

Your main fault: Procrastination and time blindness

Your favourite occupation: Textile designer

Your idea of happiness: Being in nature, outdoors and dog parks have a calming and happiness-inducing effect

If not yourself who/what would you like to be: A perfumer

Where would you like to live: I would like to live like a snow bird. Somewhere warm in the winter and back in Toronto for the summer

Your fav heroes of fiction: Isabelle Rossignol, character in the book The Nightingale

Your fav heroes of real life: Billie Jean King

Your muse(s): Iris Apfel, Kara Hamilton, Martha Graham, Steffi Graf

Favourite Pilates exercises to do: Short spine and semi-circle

Something you learned this past year: That nothing is better than rescuing a doggo.

Your motto: Kindness matters