3.17.2011

What is a Private?

The practice of true Pilates begins with systematic instruction in the key principles and movements of the method. These important steps are requisite to being able to perform true Pilates properly and with maximum benefit. Pilates Movements used in a gym setting or copied from a DVD are just that…Pilates Movements. This can be a waste of your time at best, and a dangerous source of injury at worst.

In Private sessions, after we’ve covered our agreement to work together, your health history as well as your personal needs and goals, …you’ll receive individualized, careful instruction as we work through a checklist of fundamentals, including the essential patterns of movement, breath work and basic exercises. When this checklist is completed {approximately 4 sessions} you’ll be prepared to safely join into the flow of a Beginning Mat Class. This series of sessions takes commitment and patience… & are the best beginning to your new practice of purposeful self-care; one you’ll carry through the rest of your life.

Joseph Pilates said of Contrology (now Pilates), ‘A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.’

Work smarter! Not harder…

If you already have experience with Pilates, we’ll just need one session as we’ll be able to work very quickly through our checklists.
Some are such fans of Pilates Private Sessions that they prefer those to joining a class; some prefer frequent refresher sessions.

You’ll be investing in health and happiness.

'This is the equivalent of an "internal shower". As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.' -Pilates

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