Jason Priestly and wife Naomi Lowde-Priestley are giving props to their frequent Pilates classes for aiding them physically and mentally. “All exercise should focus around form. But Pilates, they’re very, very strict about it,” Naomi, 48, exclusively told Us Weekly on Tuesday, July 2, while promoting their new Studio Pilates International location in Nashville.
“And it starts from the core, right? And so for me, I have a bunch of warring injuries.” Naomi shared that she has a “slipped vertebrae” in her back which prevented her from going into certain extensions. While struggling with the injury, Naomi realized she needed to strengthen and train her core to treat it.
“It wasn’t until I found Pilates and did the Pilates training that I really understood what it was to have core strength, right and then through that, like strengthening my core and just learning to where to hold posture correctly in alignment and correct like muscle imbalances that I had that was causing me to have this like ongoing injury,” she explained. “I saw the light at the end of the tunnel because I was no longer in pain.” She shared that after making the change in her workout, her body started “to heal itself” as some of her back “protrusions came back” which ultimately “stopped the sciatica.
” In addition to healing her ailments, Naomi, who now teaches the workout course itself, credited Pilates with giving her “more range of motion” which has subsequently improved.
