Michael Miller Pilates

Pilates - Advanced Mat Class & Idea Training in Zurich

Wednesday May 20th, 2009   Michael Miller Pilates Advanced Mat Class THIS MAT CLASS IS GONNA ROCK!  "35 MINUTE MAT"   19:00  - 20:00   Mats are available   door opens at 18:30   30 CHF   Michael Miller Pilates Certification Training   Pilates as an idea   20:00 - 22:00    70 CHF Both 90 CHF   Zentrum Karl der Grosse Kirchgasse 14 8001 Zurich, Switzerland   Closest tramstation: Rudolf-Brun Brücke   Next parking: Hohe Promenade. Guest instructor: Michael Miller   Speaks and teaches in English Michael Miller is the founder and director of the Michael Miller Pilates Brand. Michael Miller Pilates is unique in that it professes Pilates to have an ideal nature that comes straight from Joseph Pilates: his definition of his method, his promise of what doing his method will provide you, and his sequence of exercises he documents in words, photos, and film. Michael Miller Pilates is recognized throughout the world.  Visit website www.hermit.comand blog.   Instructors and experienced mat students only   Reservations 076 756 0969 michaelmillerpilates@hotmail.com

Push Up Images

The Push Up is the last exercise of the Pilates Matwork because it is the most challenging. You are trying to create uniform usage in one long arc of flexion from your most extreme endpoints.

 

Subscribers can view accompanying images here.

The Pilates Core

Here's a free few minutes of Michael Miller commenting on the Pilates "core."

The rest of this session can be ordered as an audio CD here.

Joseph Pilates Standing Footwork

I'm pleased to announce new material
added to the Michael Miller Pilates Continuing Ed on the Web database
at www.hermit.com.

For the first time, the warm up sequence that Joseph Pilates demonstrates on film on more than one occasion is captured and shown here:

http://www.hermit.com/michaelmiller/courseware/subscriber/mat0.htm

In plane, front front

side to side, in and out

front, front, front switch

front, front, front, switch

front, front switch

front, front switch

front switch

front switch

front switch

side to side

side to side

...now starts roll up.

Standing Saw with variations, lunges, and Neck Pull

then with the arms, circles inside to outside, then outside to inside,

then Corkscrew arms.

All of which is consistent with his other work and the idea derived therefrom.

Transition: Seal through Crab to Rocking

I'm not sure where this came from.

I remember doing it back in the early eighties
at the City Rec center's Full Mat
class. We worked hard in those days
to refine the flow of the mat work.

For photos of the head stand transition from Crab to Rocking, for subscribers, can be seen here.

Transition: Balance Control to Standing

The most advanced way of doing something is usually the hardest, and yet the simplest. As we have already examined, staying in the median plane going from standing to footwork or 100s, is reversed when you transition from control balance to standing.

Subscribers can see photos here.

Transition: Standing to Supine

The point to this transition is that you do not distort your plane.

Subscribers can see photos here.

Michael Miller Mat Embodied

Video clip 12 minutes total

100s to the Spine Stretch

All you get is to see the movement and hear the breathing, which is the value of the piece, you get to hear the breathing.   For a free sample of the roll up click here or subscribers can view the whole piece by clicking here.

Breath buoys

Once you learn how to breath while doing pilates, your breath buoys your efforts.

The 35 minute mat

My mat, the Michael Miller Pilates Full Mat, done in 35 minutes, is a standard of excellence.

You do the mat to achieve the complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. That may happen way before the completion of the mat.

You recite the poem to achieve the effect.