Sphinx Pilates + Eldoa

06/03/2026

Change is happening! After 20 years of building an awesome community Sphinx Pilates + ELDOA is downsizing. And run by the fabulous is moving in!

04/30/2026

11/12/2025

You’re in luck — 2 spots left in the next 8week ELDOA Foundations class🤩
—- and it’s in person!!! Hands on feedback and corrections are in valuable

Learn with leading Instructor Petra Baethmann

These 8wks of classes will provide you with a solid foundation in the ELDOA method. And the classes will continue to build in knowledge and body awareness.

ELDOA exercises are invaluable for:

> back, neck, or shoulder pain

> herniated or buldging discs, stenosis, DDD

> hours of desk work or any repetitive lifestyle

> enhancing flexibility and mobility

> learning more about your body’s alignment and spine health

> long-term wellness and injury prevention

- Your body will thank you forever! -

What are you waiting for come join us 🙌 see LINK in BIO

$320 +hst / 8weeks / Space is limited to 8 person max.

(Note: This is open to anyone who is interested in a profound tool for self help. **For personal use only**)

10/27/2025

Don’t miss out!!
Next
PILATES FOUNDATION
Starts this week 💥💥💥💥💥with Olivia Armstrong 😍🙌

8-Week In-Person MAT GROUP CLASS
Pre-Reg
Thursdays 5:30pm

Learn how to engage your core correctly for optimal strength with this in-person class!

Valuable for every body-

💥Enhance flexibility and mobility
Learn more about our body’s alignment
💥Feel and be stronger
Long-term wellness and injury prevention
💥Strengthen your deepest postural muscles
Find internal support and look great!
👍Always good to come back to basics

Why with us??
Expert guidance - small classes
Close observation is provided to make sure movements are executed with precision!

$240+hst / 8weeks
Space is limited: 8 person max.

See link in bio to register ⚡️⚡️⚡️

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10/18/2025

09/29/2025

We’re heading into the month of October which feels quite good right about now with glorious sunshine and leaves that are turning vibrant colours! (Here in Toronto :))

With this feel good intention let’s give the Spleen some love in this month’s master class — a class devoted to creating a more pliable environment for this beautiful organ that helps support our immune system by producing white blood cells and filtering pathogens. 

We’ll take into account the Spleen’s relationship with organs surrounding it, the meridian line, the massaging effects of our breath, and the arterial and nerve supply. 

Here are the details for the class -  

Friday Oct 3rd via Zoom @ 5-6:30pm EST   
* Zoom class and chat 
* Recording: 2wks

Building blocks*:  
* ELDOA - T12/L1, T9-10-11 Classic+Costotransverse+Sternocostal, Hip (external) 
* Global Postural Stretches (GPS) - Spleen, Kidney (inferior, superior in adduction), Scarpa Triangle (femoral triangle) 
* Myofascial Stretches (MFS) - External + Internal Obliques
* Proprioception - spine, ankle
* Bonus: tracing the Spleen meridian line & respiratory lung blockage

Join us — PM me (Petra) for a link

Not a teacher of ELDOA?
Come to one of our in person classes in Toronto’s Annex neighbourhood. 🔥☀️

09/29/2025

I was reminded the other day that mental worry effects our organ function and our organ function effects our mental state - an organ (ie-spleen) can make us feel more worried than necessary if it’s prevented from working optimally.

When we move our body - can be as simple as walking, focused breathing, flexing and extending the spine when seated, etc - our organs are pushed and pulled around (this is good!) causing an increase in fluid and a change in cell movement leading to a happy “inside” which ultimately leads to a happier you “outside”.

Do a little movement right now 🤓🕺

09/03/2025

Join us for the next 8weeks of Pilates Foundations with Olivia!

Learn proper core engagement - diaphragm, pelvic floor, abs, spinal muscles and more 🔥

Thursday Sept 4 - Oct 23
8 wks pre-reg

Link in bio

08/06/2025

Summertime 🎵and the living is easy…

Hello 👋
This month we’re continuing to help our hips+shoulders work together in Part 2!

We’ll focus on the front of the body to provide an equal balance to the posterior sling (part 1).

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Let’s increase anterior body awareness and spinal rotation💫 and we’ll do T11/12 and Hip proprioception for sure this time ;)
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Anterior sling hip to shoulder!
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Friday Aug 8th via Zoom @ 5-6:30pm EST
Zoom class and chat
Recording: 2wks

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Building blocks*:
ELDOA - Hip (external), T11/T12, T3/4, Sterno-Cleido-Costo-Chondral (SCCC)
Global Postural Stretches (GPS) - Abdominal Wall, Thoracic Cage - Hemithorax, Shoulder Girdle
Myofascial Stretches (MFS) - External Oblique (tbd)
Proprioception - Hips

ELDOA Practitioner not on our list yet? DM us to join 👋🙂
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