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Pilates Principle: Control life philosophy pilates principle Jun 21, 2023

CONTROL

Control is considered one of the six Pilates Principles

The others are:

  • Breath
  • Concentration
  • Centring
  • Flow
  • Precision

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Open Leg Rocker exercises life mat matwork pilates principle teaching Jun 07, 2023

OPEN LEG ROCKER

I mistakenly typed Open Leg Rocket when I began writing this post which now that I think about it could be a perfect name for this...

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Non Dominance for better Uniform Development exercises healthy living life philosophy pilates principle Apr 19, 2023

One of Joseph Pilates’ concepts is Uniform Development which I’ve written about before.

In his 1945 book, Return to Life, he...

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Pilates Principle: Breath exercises history pilates principle teaching Jan 25, 2023

Breath

Out of the six generally agreed upon Pilates Principles, I would say that Breath is the potentially the most important (the others are: Flow...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: The Teaser exercises mat matwork pilates principle teaching Dec 07, 2022

The Teaser

Let me try to explain why this is one of my verrrrry favourite Pilates exercises.

 

But first, WHAT is Teaser or alternately ...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Pilates Push Ups exercises matwork pilates principle Nov 02, 2022

Yep, it's time for another exploration of one of the classical Pilates Mat exercises but first...

This might be the worst video I've ever presented...

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Pilates Principle: Centring / Centering matwork pilates principle Oct 12, 2022

CENTRING or, is it CENTERING??

There are six Pilates Principles and while not coming directly from the mouth of Joe, they are none the...

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Pilates Principle: Flow exercises matwork philosophy pilates principle Aug 10, 2022

Go With The FLOW

Flow is one of the six, with a capital "P" Pilates Principles

Click >> HERE << for my blog on Concentration, and...

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Pilates Princple: Concentration life matwork philosophy pilates principle Jun 22, 2022

Do you have a hard time concentrating?

In this day and age let me assure you you’re not alone. There are so many things that distract us -...

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3 Musings: Stay Curious, Keep Learning, Find Mentors healthy living life philosophy pilates principle Jun 15, 2022

Celebrate Yourself!

Hey, I wrote this whole blog and then twigged that I'm massively repeating myself

You see, several months ago I wrote...

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Uniform Development healthy living philosophy pilates principle Apr 13, 2022

Your Pilates Vase

I have no idea when you’re reading this but one Mother’s Day, the hubby gave me a bouquet of flowers,...

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Pilates Exercise Dive: Spine Stretch exercises matwork pilates principle Mar 02, 2022

Something New... check it out, an embedded video!

Hello Spine Stretch!

How can such a simple movement, literally bending over forward, sometimes...

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Pilates Principle: Precision matwork philosophy pilates principle Jan 26, 2022

Just to get it out there, the six (or eight or ten) generally accepted 'Pilates Principles' are an arbitrary list that do not come from Joseph...

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