Week 28 — “Darwin”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
Hello Pilates People!!!!
First of all, THANK YOU for your patience this past week! We had quite a few technical snafus and you were all SO SUPPORTIVE! We are truly so grateful to have you here as we continue to learn, grow and FIGURE THIS ALL OUT.
As always, you can click here for the full list of weekly updates, but for our quick highlight reel:
Our Nutrition Myth Busters Workshop with Wildly Nutritious is coming up next Sunday, October 4th from 1-3pm! Just $25 (or $20 for our video members) to debunk common nutrition myths and ask all your questions! Sign up here
We have quite a few scheduling updates again! Please check out our weekly updates by clicking the link above for the full rundown and keep your eyes open when signing up on Mindbody!
Tuesday, September 29th, our 9am class is switching over to Instagram LIVE so we can team up with our friend Abby Suskin and raise money for the NYC Foodbank! Please join us if you can!! And if not, lookout for the saved workout later on! (head to the Instagram icon at the bottom of this email to find us there if you haven't already)
For the month of October, our donation classes on Fridays (now at 9am - see our schedule changes) will go to the Nation Coalition Against Domestic Violence. More on that later...
for now, let's dive in to what we're talking about this week - being wiggly.
What we mean is being adaptable - eyes wide open at the world and ready to move and flow within whatever we're handed - letting things roll off our backs because if we don't, boy oh boy is that going to get heavy quick and who needs that?
It's what I had to do to survive these past 6 months and what I had to keep saying to myself on a daily basis - "Cassandra, just wiggle your way out of it." (Yes, we're back to I talk to myself far too much these days...oh well)
And then Jenni and I started saying it to each other, "Just be wiggly," and it became kind of our secret motto.
And I truly believe that whether you know it or not, if you're here, reading this right now, taking classes with us, you're being wiggly too. So maybe it's not really a secret...
Because is this where you saw yourself? Did you expect to fall into the hands of an online community of souls looking to move those bones around with stranger friends so that they can feel that sense of "we're all in it together"-ness that felt threatened not all that long ago?
I'll go first:
No. That's not where I saw myself. I didn't see myself being part of it a community like this one, let alone orchestrating it.
And yet, here we are.
Because we wiggled our way into it.
And yes, I'm calling this week "Darwinism." I own it. I did that. My choice.
But I hate the phrase, "Survival of the fittest," because really, what on earth? It just SOUNDS mean.
So let's adapt that phrase, shall we? Let's Darwinize Darwin himself and call it, "Survival of the wiggliest."
Better, right?
Because when it rains, it pours (sometimes when you least expect it) and you can either let that stop you, or you can find a way to dance (or maybe run) in the rain.
It's your call.
We're here.
So are you.
And I think that says a lot - about all of us.
All our love,
Cassandra + Pilates People
(9/27/20)