Coaching Mat
Polish your words and polish your phrases.
Deliver what you say (when instructing) pressing the flow of the effort.
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Coaching Mat
Understand the target: control. After all, he called his method "Contrology". The tile of his book is "return to life through contrology." You think that title is an accident?
So deciding which way is better than another, clarify the situation and be clear about the criteria being used to evaluate the alternatives. I use control as the crieteria, and take the approach that it is easier to reach for control of the easier way first, than trying to reach for the harder to control but more ideal way (that takes longer to learn) ((know your limits by exploring them)) So, establish control with a flat-back tuck first and then release into the subtleties of neurtal after. For me it works better that way.
Coaching Mat
Name the exercise before you start teaching it.
Divide the hour into three parts, the first 5 or 10 minutes talk about something abstract on the subject of pilates, the second 30-45 minutes teach how each exercise is done (how to sense the control for yourself) ((how to protect yourself)) "Never do anything that hurts, and always stop when you want.", and part three--the best part--instruct the exercises just covered in tempo, pressing the flow--to find the fusion. (The complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.)
"...between teaching and instructing?"
What's the difference between teaching and instructing?
When you teach you ask a person to think.
When you instruct you ask a person to do.
Use both techniques to skate towards your objective: the complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.
",,,without you in it."
I pray for you, I really do. The world would be so much less without you in it.
Alignment is the issue
through the pursuit of alignment all else comes into place, tension to make fluorescence.
What do Copernicus, Bruce Lee, Einstein, and Michael Miller have in common?
Copernicus changed the way people thought about astronomy.
Bruce Lee changed the way people thought about martial arts.
Einstein changed the way people thought about physics.
Michael Miller changed the way people thought about pilates.
Evidently: "changed the way people thought"
Biology is secondary to physics
The structure of the mat, is what it is, because of the structure in which it happens.
From a friend...
"There's a price you pay for subordinating your I.Q. to anybody." jm
I don't think
I don't think it mattered what Joe wanted the work to be. What matters is that Joe's work reveals what matters.
