Endorfyns

Yesterday's story was about the experience Irene got after teaching her first 12 classes on the reformer. We analysed Foot Work . Made a list of the most common mistakes. I asked which from the list should be correct as the first. We agreed to give priority to the integration with the carriage , the body alignment ...

Today I worked with a new client . His first time at the Pilates studio. Fit ,young and strong man.
To prevent him from fighting the springs and to help focus , align and capture the essence of work I purposely dropped the power of the springs . Some beautiful weaknesses revealed from the first repetition. Thanks to his great body awareness and the attention he brought with him, the process of fixing bad movement habits began and brought good results during his very first class of Pilates method.

So answering my own question , what would you correct as fists ? In teaching Pilates a great deal is an intuition. Intuition comes with years of experience and many many many clients who give us trust and theirs bodies . Each body, personality , mental is different and should be considered individually. For the teachers I work with I created protocols to follow . Those are to make them knowledgeable. But the knowledge needs to be used wisely and in my opinion if dealing with humans intuitively. So choose one correction at the time and work in it.

Workshop ' A Lot About Rotations ' Saturday 30 of May at 12 till 14:30.
Over the mat class and work on various apparatus we will focus on finding a central axis of the body, discovering how critical this is for the rotation actions . Introducing or brushing up :) concept of Dynamic Stability for functional movement. Observe how range of motion for rotations changes as we move through each section of the spine... If all of this sounds too serious keep in mind it will be fun throughout the movement resulting in improvement of your practice . And in the end, following our long ago workshop habit, the lottery with the present :)

Cadillac Workbook . What is in ? Years of learning and teaching. 2 photoshoots. Classical exercises . Hands-on. Some exercises for mat repertoire . Thank you .michiel .and thank you for silver wings .

Monkey see , monkey do , monkey buy .