Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Finding My Teaching

Last summer I did a lot of continuing education; things that weren't really pilates based. Ive been trying to figure how to incorporate my new knowledge into my work. One way has been to separate the purely functional movements, hands on, and sensory experience exercises into a totally different type of session; body therapy if you will. I have not been able to figure how to smoothly work in the new information into the pilates series of exercises. Well today I think I hit upon how to do it. I dont want to slow down the series or explain a whole lot more that I already do, so the tactile experience is the way to go. Ive already been using the Yamuna work and it really lends its self to sensory knowledge, but simply tactile cueing, during the pilates exercises, and I dont just mean touch, I mean really moving the tissue around, giving it the direction that it needs to go in. Seems obvious right. I know, it was staring me in the face.

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