Body Conversations®

Exercising & Weight Loss

Cortisol, Leptin, Ghrelin, Insulin - those are our new words to describe why people are ravenously hungry and can't stop eating. Exercise makes you hungry, nobody disputes that. But why? _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

WeightWatchers & Peloton

In this podcast, Joan Breibart explores the decline of wellness giants Peloton and Weight Watchers, attributing their downfall to outdated methodologies and false promises of weight loss. She sheds light on the industry's misguided focus on appearance over health, advocating for a shift towards a more sustainable approach to wellness based on hunger management and taste appreciation. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the Ph...

Weight Watcher & Peloton

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PhysicalMind Bridging & Amnesty

In this episode Joan Breibart discusses PhysicalMind Institute's unique Bridging and Amnesty programs. To learn more about Bridging click here and to learn more about Amnesty click here. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Taylor Swift & Posture

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Certification, Amnesty and Bridge Discussion and Sale

In this episode Joan Breibart discusses the history of teacher trainer certifications, matwork and apparatus certification, and the PhysicalMind Institute Amnesty and Bridge programs. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Ozempic is NOT expensive; it is a Bargain!

Jan 8, 2024 Episode F discusses how Ozempic is a long term bargain. And how Joan Breibart who recently joined WW finds the Points system to be so difficult. And how desperate is WW to accept money from a female who is 82 and weighs 121 and is 5'6". It's over!!! _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Oprah is on Ozempic December 16 2023 Episode E

Oprah announced on December 13th that she is on a weight loss drug—one of the miracles from Novo Nordisk or Eli Lilly.  She did not  say which one  since then everyone would only  ask for what  Oprah is  injecting. Soon it will  just be swallowing a  pill which  will make  one  disinterested in swallowing  all day. Maybe then  we start to really eat—Remember chewing?  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Insti...

Food Politics : Stop Torturing Yourself

Joan Breibart discusses vegetarianism and its incompatibility with 80Bites, noting that veganism is also incompatible with many things. The growing popularity of 80Bites, now seen as the "natural Ozempic," is prompting many questions, leading to a better understanding of why restrictive and unhealthy diet programs often lead to unhappiness. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Food Politics : STopTorturing Yourself

Joan Breibart discusses her vegetarianism and its incompatibility with 80Bites, noting that veganism is also incompatible with many things. The growing popularity of 80Bites, now seen as the "natural Ozempic," is prompting many questions, leading to a better understanding of why restrictive and unhealthy diet programs often lead to unhappiness.

Gratitude: Ozempic Wegovy Mounjaro. and Some thoughts on Jesus

Thanksgiving won't be ruined by Ozempic; in fact, this drug could enhance our national day of feasting. There are numerous articles discussing the anticipated economic changes even before the pill version becomes available in 2024. Additionally, photos of Warner Sallman's painting of Jesus are now under scrutiny. It's puzzling why no one raised concerns earlier. You can find the images at https://www.warnersallman.com/collection/images/head-of-christ/. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute o...

Professor Scott Galloway says that Ozempic etc. will impact Society more than AI

Consumers are unaware but CEOs and Wall St. are watching the impact of these drugs - not just on the pharmaceutical   sales - Ozempic's are larger than  the GDP of Denmark - but the impact on  other industries. The  Airline industries are looking forward to fuel savings; the clothing industry will be going through the roof. The CEO of Walmart recently said  that customers on these drugs are buying less of everything, but particularly food.  We also talk about a successful 80Biter who says h...

Lose Weight by Imaging You can Wring Oprah's Neck! Episode A October 23 2023

Joan Breibart  uses her unusual  rejuvenation  during chemotherapy to figure out the best calorie burner. And why 80Bites is a do-it-yourself Ozempic. Get 80Bites here: https://shop.physicalmindinstitute.com/products/80bites _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

It's Here: Begin Your TYE4 Certification Journey Today!

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Standing Pilates®

If Joe were alive he'd set folks on their feet! Off the Mat! Joan Breibart explains her rationale and the history of Standing Pilates® and Pilates in general from 2001 to now.  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 5: Pilates Then & Now with Yuu Fujita and Joan Breibart

How Pilates teaching has changed since Princess YUU Fujita was certified in 2001  and why we are Launching a TYE4® certification.  Looking for volunteers to be trained for free. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Body Conversations Episode 4: How to Teach Group Classes on Pilates Apparatus with Michelle Hoyos

Pilates expert Michelle Hoyos and Joan Breibart discuss the question: HOW do you easily and enthusiastically teach 12 different bodies at the same time on such complicated Apparatus?? _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 3: Everything Ozempic®

54 MILLION  google hits in less than half a second!! Ozempic is the topic all over the world. Particularly interesting for the USA since we created the diet and exercise biz; then later fitness & nutrition; and now wellness.  OZEMPIC® Nation  Bye-bye fat acceptance; fat burning exercise; dieting; gluten-free; clean eating, etc.  And all the other wellness wonders that fuel a business to the tune of  $4 trillion. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to ...

Episode 2: Part two – Joan and Lynda continue discussing the fact there are only 10 Spinal Exercises

The reason someone would want to understand this is that if you are a professional you can easily make choreographic changes to exercises to provide variety.   Whether teaching a reformer class of 4 or 12 and needing to make modifications for one person benefits all in both brain and body health.  Looking at all the equipment now in studios whether the mat or reformer or spring wall or chair, knowledge of these spinal exercises makes creating exercises a breeze, i.e. thinking on your feet.  ...

Episode 2: Part one: There Are Only Ten Spinal Exercises

Lynda Lippin and Joan Breibart  discuss  a framework for all exercise.  This is Part I.  In the next episode,   we will examine how to use this to help   a teacher think on her feet.  Or on his feet.  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 2: There Are Only Ten Spinal Exercises

Lynda Lippin and Joan Breibart  discuss  a framework for all exercise.  This is Part I.  In the next episode,   we will examine how to use this to help   a teacher think on her feet.  Or on his feet. 

Do You Teach Classical or Contemporary Pilates?

Joan Breibart speaks with Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle about these designations and what it means for the future of Pilates.  Both speakers began their Pilates careers when just pronouncing the name Pilates was the only issue! _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

ReLaunchofBodyConversation®

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Episode 31: Your Government Hates YOU which explains why they LIE!

The big lie  happened in 1985 when the CDC  changed the  formula  for measuring weight from the IBW--- Ideal Body Weight, aka the HAMWI Method  to  the BMI which enabled them to  "grade on a curve."   They probably thought this move was innocent.  But not so.  About one million died of Covid due to obesity and the majority didn't even know they were fat.  NOW obesity is  really  bad  so the Authorities need another lie. Learn  what  this will mean. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on In...

Episode 30: Your Government Hates You. Hate Them Back!

Why is it okay for government agencies to hide the truth about obesity?? Joan explores the US government's choice to change to the BMI. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episide 29: Sean Gallagher & Legalities

Joan explains her view, as one of the people at the center of the original Pilates trademark lawsuit, on the most recent lawsuit to hit the Pilates world.   _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 28: What is Wellness?

Learn exactly why Joan always makes fun of the word "wellness" and all of the confusion/misinformation that always surrounds it. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 27: "Nourishment" is the New Weight Loss Trick.

Joan discusses this fallacy of "nourishing" ourselves to LOSE weight! Sorry, it just doesn't work that way! _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 26: What Did The Queen Eat For Breakfast?

We ask this question about every other celebrity, so why is this odd when we ask this about the Monarchy? _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 25: Thank You to The New York Post

 Joan enjoys an article by Cindy Adams in the NY Post on her trip to Maine. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 24: Four Fitness Facts to Fuel Your Workout

The title comes from a New York Times article by Melinda Wenner Moyer. Joan enlightens us with some exercise truth. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 23: Is Pilates Only for Rich, White Women?

Joan dives deep into Fariha Róisín's book, Who is Wellness For? ; the Pilates telephone-game; and the new Pilates lawsuit. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 22: A Woman's Right to Choose

This week, Joan discusses her fears about the phrase "a woman's right to choose." _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 21: Obesity Fraud

Is BMI a fraud?! Joan talks about America's problem with admitting the truth! Using the BMI equation may not be the most honest representation of our country's obesity issue, since waistline measurement with the HAMWI equation gives us a much different--and much HIGHER number... _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 20: The New York Times & FORMA Pilates

On the latest episode of Body Conversations®, Joan Breibart discusses her disappointment with this article in the New York Times, with which Joan has a personal history, on FORMA Pilates. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 19: Michael Pollan and Intuitive Eating

Joan shares her thoughts on Michael Pollan's quote, "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants" and the Intuitive Eating trend on a whole. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Episode 18: Shrinking Your Stomach

This week, Joan promotes our updated 80Bites app! 80Bites is her solution to this diet-frenzied-- yet super-sized world. Listen and visit 80bites.com to find out more! _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Whole Foods Part 2

Sorry Whole Foods, we have another problem. This time, Joan discusses the taste—or lack thereof—in her recent split pea soup purchase. Is it still “nourishing” your body without any taste? _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

The Jesus Diet

Joan discusses "The Jesus Diet," a mess of historical inaccuracies and ignorance of our modern bodies. This new snake oil sales pitch embodies the dieting world as an irresistible area of scam. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Whole Foods Conversation

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Jillian Michaels & 80Bites

Jillian Michaels  was Attacked on IG  this past week. She is now the symbol of what  went wrong with   punishing  the body with  diet deprivations  and  "torch the calories exercise.  Who's next?  certainly,   the   stats show   the calories in/calories out message  failed us.  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Get Rid of the H Word

Healthy is  our most overused word. Well,maybe AWESOME is first.  Either way, both  are unnecessary.  FEW things  are awesome and   healthy  is  a moving target and   relates to   illness.  Waistline   is  the  only decent  evaluator.   35inches =obesity. WHO organization says  use  this measure and FORGET BMI.  Forget euphemisms.   Be specific.  80 bites a day or fewer. & chews per bite.  Start   droping   bites adn add chews. And BREATHE.  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram...

WELLNESS Unglued

Starting to see the Wellness world cratering  Exercise is NOT a calorie torching   activity . Even Gretchen Reynolds of the New York Times has to tell the  truth.  Sorry the weight loss toolkit  has lost another  trick.  ""Healthy"---is  this  low fat    or high fat?  Neither. EAT  broadly  and  only do the UNIVERSAL  DIET:  Eat LESS.  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Eric Adams Is he NYC's Next Mayor?

Eric Adams' story as told in his book Healthy At Last  is  really the story of our collective SELF-DELUSION. And COVID is our warm up for the real  health crisis  for which  there is no cure. No vaccine. The BIG D.  Diabetes.  _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.

Pilates In America Coast to Coast Patti Kreiner & Joan Breibart Discuss

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Portion Control

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"Healthy" - Why The H Word Is A Farce

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"Healthy" - Why The H Word Is A Farce

The CDC

A close look at the CDC and how it's shaping America.

Defund the CDC - Not the Police

A close look at the CDC and how it's shaping America. _____ Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter. Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.