by Debbie Tuma
Whether in the Hamptons or the city, at the start of a new season, maybe it’s time to think about improving your health and fitness. Many people take exercise classes, but they may be missing out on a huge part of a healthy body. International Pilates, Gyrotonics, yoga and fitness trainer, Paolo Boletti, of Italy, is the creator of the Postural Modeling Program, which he taught in Italy and has taken to Manhattan and the Hamptons. As a “Postural Designer,” Paolo is capable of re-organizing your posture, creating immense health benefits for a functional, powerful and elegant lifestyle.
“This comprehensive program can reshape and reprogram your posture with all the benefits on your organs, nervous system and body shape,” said Boletti, who teaches this program at the Regan Movement studio in Manhattan, and also sees clients at the Green Earth Natural Foods Market in Riverhead, on the weekends. “This program represents an antigravity and anticompression system able of supporting your spine and posture in motion.”
Boletti explained that trauma, concerns, and stress, stored in the body, can alter postural alignment, creating imbalances and restrictions. With his Postural Freedom Organization techniques its easy to rediscover freedom of movement, great energy levels and self expression.
“You can tell a lot about a person by how he or she carries themselves,” he said.
Boletti has been doing private healing sessions, depending on a client’s needs, at the Green Earth Natural Foods Market in Riverhead on weekends, for the past year. He has also taken his unique Postural Modeling Program to the Regan Movement studio at 115 West 25th Street in Manhattan, owned by Regan Rutledge. A former ballet dancer from the San Diego Ballet, and different dance companies, Rutledge started dancing at age three, and then discovered her passion for teaching at age four, by assisting her dance teacher.
I was always drawn to feeling and moving my body, and I loved to express myself,” she said. “I started Pilates and yoga in the fourth grade, and later did Gyrotonics. I started teaching all these classes in college, and I always thought I would open a dance studio.”
She opened Regan Movement in 2019, on the top two floors of a four-story building. On the third floor she has Pilates and Gyrotonics equipment, and the fourth floor is a big open space with movement classes, Pilates, yoga, stretching classes, and Postural Modeling.
“Our classes are focused on alignment, to improve your mobility, flexibility, strength, posture and breathing,” she said. “It’s about how you hold yourself and how you move through space. I want people to feel good in their bodies, so their bodies will serve them and not hold them back.”
Rutledge said she wants to try and help people get into their bodies and out of their heads. “By reconnecting and feeling their bodies, they’re able to build awareness, and from awareness there is change. Eventually, you come to crave exercise and movement,” she explained.
Regan Movement offers all levels of classes from someone who hasn’t moved in 20 years to a professional athlete who wants to improve his or her quality of movement.
Of the new Postural Modeling classes, she said, “It’s rare to find a class that just focuses on posture, how you hold yourself. You can work out day and night, but if you don’t have good posture you can be working against yourself. Good posture and alignment affects how you feel physically and mentally. Bad posture affects your mood, how you present yourself to the world, and it accelerates aging.”
And for those who may not be able to get to her studio, she offers 300 movement classes for all levels at her virtual studio, from 5 minutes to 30 minutes, so you can work at your own pace. For $40 a month she offers unlimited classes and she continues to add new classes each month. Go to www.reganmovement.com
Call The Green Earth Natural Foods Market in Riverhead at 631-369-2233, for an appointment, and call Regan Movement in Manhattan at 716-510-9523.
