Reform Your Focus
Why We’re Asking You to Put Down Your Phone (Just a Little)
At SOMA Movement Studio, we often say that Pilates isn’t just about moving—it’s about listening. Listening to your body, your breath, your center. But in today’s world, quiet enough to hear that inner feedback can be hard to come by.
We live in an age of overstimulation. Most of us are moving through our days with a phone in one hand, notifications buzzing in the background, and a nervous system on high alert. According to recent research, the average U.S. adult spends over seven hours a day looking at a screen. That’s nearly a full workday of fragmented attention—and our bodies are starting to show it.
The effects go deeper than tired eyes and tech neck. Excessive screen time has been linked to increased anxiety, disrupted sleep, and reduced ability to focus and self-regulate. And physically, we’re seeing more forward head posture, shallow breathing, and spinal compression than ever before—all of which affect how we move, how we feel, and how we show up in our lives.
That’s why this April, we’re inviting you to join us in a simple but powerful experiment: put down your phone—just a little—and see what happens.
We’re calling it the Reform Your Focus Challenge, and it’s not about restriction or guilt. It’s about awareness. It’s about noticing the habits that have crept in and exploring what shifts when we create more space between ourselves and our screens.
It’s also about reclaiming your attention as a resource. Because when we reduce distraction, we gain something even more valuable—presence. Presence in your breath. Presence in your movement. Presence in your relationships and decisions and the way your body feels as you walk out of class.
Pilates, at its heart, is a practice of integration. It asks you to align your body with gravity, your breath with motion, your intention with your experience. That work becomes so much more effective when the nervous system is calm, when the eyes aren’t darting between texts and headlines, and when the body has a chance to orient to something deeper than a glowing screen.
This challenge is about giving yourself that chance.
For two weeks in April, we’ll support you in gently reducing your screen time—not with strict rules or rigid expectations, but with reminders, encouragement, and the quiet accountability of a community doing it together. We’ll offer strategies for breaking up digital routines, tools for noticing nervous system activation, and Pilates sessions designed to reset your focus from the inside out.
You might be surprised by what shifts. You may start to sleep better. You may find yourself breathing more deeply. Your Pilates practice might feel stronger, clearer, more connected. And you might rediscover something even more valuable than time: your own attention.
This isn’t about disconnecting from the world. It’s about reconnecting with yourself. Let’s reform more than our bodies this spring—let’s reform our focus. We’ll be with you every step of the way. Quietly, and with presence.