“We all need to move more, not just exercise more” With Katy Lush, the founder of Lush Living

I feel that all movement counts. Just because you didn’t get your heart rate up to a particular number, for a set amount of minutes, don’t discredit carrying your kids around, weeding your award winning garden, or laying down to mediate with a few deep breaths. We all need to move more, not just exercise more.

I had the pleasure of interviewing Katy Lush, the founder of Lush Living and Chicago River North Pilates. She specializes in mat Pilates, GYROTONIC® Tower, GYROTONER®, Jumping-Stretching Board®, Pilates Reformer, Pilates Cadillac, and Ladder Barrel with a focus on restorative/rehabilitation exercises. Lush recently launched a new digital platform called Lush Living.

Thank you so much for doing this with us! Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?

In college I studied Ballet and Pilates was one of my courses. This was before there were the beautiful manuals that there are today, so we had to draw all the exercises from scratch. Aside from my ability to draw amazing stick figures, I apparently…