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Marta Hernandez Studio (formerly The Space Vancouver) - A Pilates and Wellness Studio

Marta Hernandez Studio approaches wellness and transformation as an integrated lifestyle. With strong focuses on structural realignment, core stability and efficiency of movement, Marta Hernandez Studio offers timeless knowledge with modern, highly trained expertise in rehabilitation, injury prevention, and overall fitness and healthy living through the use of modalities of Pilates, GYROTONIC® and

Qi Gong. Marta Hernandez Studio is truly a place of self-transformation where people are guided to discover the authentic self by learning to listen and sense the body more deeply. By developing this deeper inner awareness, freedom of expression, creative energy and joy are naturally cultivated. In cooperation with the Physicalmind Institute of Canada, we offer several Pilates training certification programs and specialized courses each year. These courses offer some of the most innovative and cutting edge knowledge and practical application in contemporary movement systems.

06/18/2026

As we are in that last few days of liver wood 🪵 season, I offer you a movement to keep your liver qi flowing. 🌱

The thing I love about Qigong is that each practice can have many ways to use it in terms of its healing prescription. If I look at it in terms of a more physical motion, I use it as a way to teach my students how to pump the ground and move the earth energy up through the legs, the body and out the arms.

If I look at it from a more energetic perspective, I might talk about feeling the air as having resistance and trying to push something heavy to move out frustrated or angry, liver qi.

Both are valid but one might be more appropriate to learn before the other, and in actual fact, they both play into each other. Working on the physical level might inadvertently help the more emotional level and working more emotionally can help on the physical level. 🌀

Nothing in life is linear as we know but one thing I know is that linking the breath with movement brings us to a deeper place within ourselves and our connection to the planet and the cosmos. 🌬️ 🌎 🪐

06/16/2026

“I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of earth, subtleties of major and minor chord that the wind strikes upon the tree branches. Have you ever heard the earth breathe?”
~ Kate Chopin

06/08/2026

“Life is the dancer and you are the dance.”
~ Eckhart Tolle

06/04/2026

To build energy in the different centers of the body, gathering earth energy first from the gates gives you something tangible to work with. ✨

Here I’m breathing through the five gates. My perineum, the palms of the hand and soles of the feet. You could also include the crown of your head, drawing from the heavenly qi if you like.

To help me draw in energy from the external environment, I imagine myself to be transparent. Also I imagine myself a one-way valve to maintain and contain that qi.

These practices are great for everyone, but especially for those that err on the side of deficient like myself. 🧘🏻‍♀️

06/01/2026

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I carry you.
I knock
on your shores,
breaking down
old stone
into sand,
to teach you
endurance.
I fill your thirsty cups,
and bow to your moon.
I respond
to your tempestuous storms
with sharp waves.
And calm
in your held breath.
I obediently change course
when you redirect me.
I find simple pleasure
in the quenching of bees
and small things.
I gladly fill
the leaf’s skeleton
with juice,
and glisten
in your barefoot
morning dewy walk.
I gratefully heal your belly
with my steaming broth.
I cry from the sky
and cleanse your day.
I course
through your fierce veins,
and the sad ones too.
I found joy
in your drenched child
who stomped my puddles
in glee.
I compassionately
follow the tears
to the corner of your lips,
and salt your tongue.
I hold you
as you float
on a hot summer day
and the days
before you were born.
I’m humble and gentle
but filled
with the power of life
and everything.

05/28/2026

This thank you note from my student brought true tears to my eyes. I’ve been teaching this Pilates Teacher Training for over 20 years. And while I’ve always approached the work from a deeper place than most, I think my years of experience has finally turned into a deeper wisdom where I take my students from the physical into the energetic/emotional and into the spiritual. My trainings and explorations of different modalities have been woven together to approach this work in a much more holistic way, while still honouring the true essence of Pilates.

I’m so lucky to attract the right students at the right time and the gifts I share with them, go both ways. I feel I also learn so much from my students and the blessings are mutual. The only sad part is when it ends. I hope to stay connected with each of my students. So please reach out, as each one of you, from all my past trainings has touched me in a special way. So grateful for you all and I hope your careers in Pilates are successful and joyful as you spread the seeds of healing to your students….. 🌾

05/27/2026

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Dynamic Sliding Pilates Workshop
June 13/14 (Saturday and Sunday)
10-5pm each day
In Person

Tuition $435+$85 materials
DM me for any questions or to sign up

This course offers a beautiful blend of my background of Qi Gong, Dance, Gyrotonic and Pilates! Come explore more advanced concepts and principles in the deep work of Dynamic Sliding Pilates.

Unlike the regular Pilates matwork where the movements are more linear, with a start and stop quality, Sliding Pilates uses movement in a variety of dynamic planes and with motions that loop back into themselves in coordination with the breath.

With the use of the discs and the Pilates vocabulary, Dynamic Sliding Pilates incorporates the work of the reformer and the classic matwork to create a more complete and complex workout. The discs slide on the floor guiding arm and leg movements. And at the same time the feedback from the floor also offers the opportunity to utilize deeper muscular connections by closing the kinetic chain.

Dynamic Sliding Pilates conditions the body by offering motions that increase the fluidity of the spine, while also opening the joints and stretching the musculature of the body in a supportive and strengthening manner.

Come join me in June for this great workshop that is designed for the advanced student or the Pilates instructor who is looking to inspire their Mat classes. You’ll leave with so much new material but also incredible new knowledge. I’d love to share this deep work with you! 🙇🏻‍♀️

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05/25/2026

As the weight of the world can sometimes be overwhelming, there’s no better way than learning how to manipulate our own energy. ✨ This exercise helps us to move energy through and down the body and into the earth, much like an animal would move their stress down and through their body. I imagine or visualize the ripple that moves through an animal’s back and skin as they dissipate stressful encounters.

This movement is quite hard for a lot of people as the tension and rigidity in the body is often very high. We aren’t meant to carry so much stress in our bodies, so it’s important to learn how to release excess emotional energy. Nature 🌳 and animals 🐈 are my teachers.

If anyone wants to learn these life-changing practices, come move with me! 😌

05/14/2026

I’ve been loving the Mung Bean Hitting practice that is a preparation or ending for the Tendon Nei Kung practice. While I still enjoy my Bamboo Hitter, there is something about the weight of the mung beans that leaves me with a more grounded feeling in my body.

Thank you to my wonderful teacher for gifting me with this thoughtful tool for my continued Qigong studies.

The practice involves hitting of the internal tendon meridian/sinew channels of the arms and legs in a particular order. And then a hitting of the external tendon lines of the arms and legs. It’s actually a short practice but is a great way to learn the meridian system.

The Taoists found that mung beans could absorb the excess yang energy in the body that could potentially cause overheating or manifestations of poisonous toxins in the body. So it’s a great practice for detoxification when applied externally to the body.

The Tendon Nei Kung practice is such an amazing practice but also perfect for this time of the year as the liver rules the tendons. And we are now in liver season. 🐉 Good tendon health is what keeps us flexible and strong over a lifetime. 🐎

Who wants to learn this practice with me?!

05/13/2026

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I drink
from the cruel waters
and walk
the despondent streets,
to remind myself
of what I would be
if I wasn’t who I am.
Honest work pays
for the prized petrol.
The purity
and sweetness
of the love
of my youth,
though tainted
by the world,
continues on
without option.
I touch the tree
to feel the gentle.
And the rings,
remind me
of how far I’ve come.
Stirring the present
and ancient ash
that feeds
the fading bloom
that hardly got started.
Such,
it feels
for my outer beauty
and life,
to be frank.
Inner peace,
smooth out the pain
of a life half gone.
Like a blanket,
I’m soothed
by its kind,
weighted embrace.
Who am I,
without this body
and accomplishments?
I walk the forest paths
to lose myself
in the child
who blows dandelions.
I squeeze out
the white healing medicine
and rub
my battle wounds.
Who knew
that child’s play
would become
reality one day.
I listen,
to stop seeing.
I feel,
to stop thinking.
A woman’s will
is different
than a man’s.
And yet I must adhere
to his rules.
Oh, what
would the world
look like
had we gained
a seat at the table.
It might have been worth it
had at least
I’d met olden day
chivalry.
But the stakes
so high,
they see blind.
So I fight like
the tenacious thorn
of raspberry.
And accept,
just as the bird
has accepted the airplane.
Every last drop
of my energy
squeezed out
to pay the mad
who run the show.
I find happiness
in nothing,
to prove my point,
in protest.
The simplicity
of a wood scented breath,
is all I need to be free.
We revolve
around and around the hours,
day by day.
And yet
there is nothing
but this now.
Who sold us the original lie
that we continue to buy?
And when
do we boycott this store.
How exhausted
and sick
do we need to become
before death
looks better than life?
My revolution
is the love of nature
and my own true nature.
Because,
although they
would have us believe
we did not own
even this,
we know
it’s our super power.

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