Michael Miller Pilates

"the closest thing to an online school for Pilates Teacher Training"

Michael Miller Pilates

http://www.hermit.com/index.htm
"Pilates is an idea..."
Has some useful information about Michael Miller and his approach to Pilates. I list Michael Miller Pilates at the top because he is the closest thing to an online school for Pilates Teacher Training. Pictures, questions and text constitute informal tutorials that will educate and challenge you to create your own best interpretation of "the Method". Plenty of samples to view. Take for example this very telling comment:-

"Pilates principles are the fad issue these days, as though you could explain Pilates through a vague and randomly ordered focus on principles."

(You can sign up online - annual subscription of $135 to get the rest of the good stuff). See also: frameable art Eye test #12 http://www.hermit.com/stack/050908.htm also the other postings ("blogs" is the modern word, but somehow, that word doesn't do this website justice) on the home page, link shown above.

http://www.easyvigour.net.nz/pilates/h_pilatesinformationtraining.htm

Article review "The Planar Training Method" June 2007 IDEA Fitness Journal by Fraser Quelch

"Life demands that the body move freely through space, not within the confines of a machine or some restrictive motor pattern." I completely agree.

"Letting go of the traditional muscle-based approach to strength training and understanding how the body actually moves are the first steps to integrating a planar training approach to program design." Here, I'd say that understanding what the body actually moves in, comes before how the body moves, for it is the nature of the space/time that the body moves that determines the manifestation of the body.

The Planar Training Program "approach not only promotes aesthetic improvements but also creates a heightened state of bodily readiness and function for movement in both sports and everyday life." This has been a aspect of pilates from its earliest conception.

"...a planar approach results in much more complete and effective training." Yes, of course, this is one of the reasons that the idea of pilates is so effective.

I like this article. It points to the importance of movement in planes. And it shows how you can use a bunch of equipment to break the idea down into smaller and smaller pieces.

What this article misses, is that the importance of movement in planes doesn't start with the body but with the space/time the body moves within. It is from the physics of space that we get the point, the line, the plane, etc. Getting from point A to point B is a fundamental matter of survival, and is why we have eyes, nose, and mouth facing in one direction. (the sagittal plane) To most efficiently move in the primary plane requires we have stability in the perpendicular plane. (the frontal plane) And to cover all the space in between requires our ability to rotate. (the transverse plane)

When you look at pilates you see the expression of a progressive pattern of movement. The progressive pattern moves from the simplest to the most complex: sagittal to frontal to transverse. So when you are working out and doing planar training don't forget to be progressive as well as balanced.

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The only company there's ever been

I have found in this journal. More out of desperation than anything else. To have someone to talk to that could listen, or at least observe what there was to be said. (not that anything ever was (but we know better than that, don't we?))

Not said, but listened to. The observer sits in observance of what there is to hear. the thinking thinks, the observer listens.

In quantum, for something to exist it has to be observed. what is the observer? what is being in observance of? and how consumed can you become with that? i don't know.

Mermaid with roller

Carol Beringer Pilates & More Wayne, PA Download VIDEO_00008.mp4

Privledged pilates

There is no privledeged status in pilates. Pilates is what it is like the speed of light is what it is.

Long Box T-pull Modification

I also saw Angela from Essence Pilates in Chicago use this technique. Download VIDEO_00007.mp4

Tower Modification

I saw this used by Angela at Essence Pilates in Chicago.

On-site at Pilates & More

Today, I try to show others the mechanics of teaching over the web the way I do it.

Pilates is a two-way street

Here's the intro: Download pilatesisatwowaystreet.MPG

For subscribers, here is the continuation of the subject: Pilates is a two-way street.

volume 2 ladder barrel

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