Proust and Pilates with Shawna

If you’re like me 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’re calling in Proust and Pilates for obvious reasons. Please enjoy this new feature!

Interviewee: Shawna Turner

Your fav virtue: Kindness

Fave qualities in a human: Humour, compassion, adventurous, grateful, playful

Chief characteristic: Space holder

What do you appreciate most in your friends: Meeting each other exactly as we are free of any judgement

What do you value most about community: Supporting one another

Favourite Pilates exercise to teach: The Mermaid

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

What do you appreciate most in your Pilates practice: It keeps all my little aches and pains in check. When I am consistent with my Pilates practice I feel the best in my body.

Your main fault: Major Procrastinator

Your idea of happiness: Slow mornings, walks by the water, books, spending idle time with the people I love.

If not yourself who/what would you like to be: A writer in a cabin in the woods

Where would you like to live: By the water

Your fav heroes of real life: Pema Chodron, Mary Oliver, Sally Kempton, My mom, Cleo (iykyk)

Your muse(s): Nature, books, poetry, paying attention

Favourite Pilates exercises to do: The roll over

Something you learned this past year: It's not too late.

Your motto: Soften into expansion