Joseph Pilates’ Return to Life Through Contrology, Part 1
As discussed earlier in this blog, Joseph Pilates was a man ahead of his time.  He witnessed the industrial revolution from its’ birth to seeing factories erected in every major city.  He saw factory workers standing doing repetitive motions all day.  He noticed the air quality because of those factories become polluted.  Although it was [...]

Practice, Practice, Practice
The Core: Pilates Part Six     Now that we have covered the four parts of the core; transversus abdominis, multifidi, pelvic floor and diaphragm, it is time to get practicing. Although it would be great to be able to imagine the whole core simultaneously, that takes quite a lot of coordination. So what I recommend is that [...]

The Diaphragm – The Core: Part Five
    In an Eric Franklin class I once took about breathing, he started off by asking us to close our eyes and go to our favorite room in our house and visualize ten objects.  After about thirty seconds people could name their ten objects.  Then he asked us to do to the room in our body [...]

The Pelvic Floor
The Core: Part Four  View of the female pelvic floor from above   My first experience with pelvic floor exercises came when I was working with Alan Herdman in London.  Alan and I were in the middle of a side over exercise when a beautiful woman walked by and thanked Alan for teaching her about her pelvic floor [...]

Multifidus Muscle – The Core: Part 3
       The multifidus muscle group is the posterior aspect of the core.  The transversus abdominis could be thought of as the corset and the mustifidi as the laces in the back.  The two work together to support the core.  The multifidus group is relatively new to the scientific community as  muscles worthy of interest or [...]