{"id":19,"date":"2004-05-09T08:36:04","date_gmt":"2004-05-09T15:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/index.php\/archives\/2004\/05\/09\/popcorn-pilates\/"},"modified":"2004-05-09T08:36:04","modified_gmt":"2004-05-09T15:36:04","slug":"popcorn-pilates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/2004\/05\/popcorn-pilates\/","title":{"rendered":"Popcorn Pilates"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Pil\u00adates stu\u00addio where I go is, togeth\u00ader with lots of oth\u00ader stu\u00addi\u00ados, host\u00ading Pil\u00adates Day. The first event was watch\u00ading film of Joseph Pil\u00adates in action, accom\u00adpan\u00adied by pop\u00adcorn, com\u00adment\u00adary, and lots of laughter and aston\u00adish\u00adment at his meth\u00adods. And a hun\u00addreds com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtion, just to get people warmed up.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m a big fan of Pil\u00adates and go at least twice a week when I\u2019m not trav\u00adel\u00adling. I star\u00adted on Pil\u00adates try\u00ading to avoid hav\u00ading sur\u00adgery on my knees, which had star\u00adted dis\u00adlo\u00adcat\u00ading them\u00adselves on a reg\u00adu\u00adlar basis. I\u2019m for\u00adtu\u00adnate enough to live in a city with a very good rehab\u00adil\u00adit\u00adat\u00adive Pil\u00adates stu\u00addio, which also is afford\u00adable. Dianne Miller was one of the first people in Canada to study and teach Pil\u00adates, and runs the Dianne Miller Pil\u00adates Stu\u00addio (web site not yet oper\u00adat\u00adive) in a way that I like. It\u2019s a com\u00adfort\u00adable spot, with lots of good teach\u00aders and a good num\u00adber of interns. After a few months of Pil\u00adates, my knee prob\u00adlem had basic\u00adally gone away and the rest of my muscles were start\u00ading to work bet\u00adter as well.<\/p>\n

The biggest prob\u00adlem with Pil\u00adates, and the reas\u00adon for the pop\u00adcorn night, is that any\u00adone can call them\u00adselves a Pil\u00adates teach\u00ader. The Pil\u00adates Meth\u00adod Alli\u00adance<\/a> is fund-rais\u00ading to cre\u00adate a cer\u00adti\u00adfic\u00ada\u00adtion pro\u00adgram. They cre\u00adated Pil\u00adates Day<\/a>, where host stu\u00addi\u00ados hold vari\u00adous fund-rais\u00ading events. Pil\u00adates Day is May 15, but the Dianne Miller stu\u00addio star\u00adted a little early.<\/p>\n

The Pop\u00adcorn night star\u00adted with a hun\u00addreds com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtion (hun\u00addreds is one of the basic exer\u00adcises) with cos\u00adtumes, prizes, and much hil\u00adar\u00adity. I took pho\u00adtos rather than com\u00adpete; 10 minutes of hun\u00addreds is more than my abs can stand. \"hundreds <\/p>\n

Dianne gave a talk about the prin\u00adciples of Pil\u00adates, and the reas\u00adons for set\u00adting up a cer\u00adti\u00adfic\u00ada\u00adtion pro\u00adgram. Then it was time for the pop\u00adcorn and the film<\/a> \u2014 black and white foot\u00adage from per\u00adson\u00adal videos made in the 30s, 50s and early 60s. Dianne gave lots of com\u00adment\u00adary, anec\u00addotes about Joe and Clara Pil\u00adates and how they worked (appar\u00adently he was the geni\u00adus who came up with it all, but she was the one who actu\u00adally taught most people), and inter\u00adspersed it with com\u00adments aimed at the interns as to which muscles to watch and what the effects of each exer\u00adcise are.<\/p>\n

Joseph Pil\u00adates was over 50 at the time the first film was made, and in his 70s for the later ones. His con\u00addi\u00adtion and flex\u00adib\u00adil\u00adity was amaz\u00ading. I felt my knees creak in protest watch\u00ading some of the exer\u00adcises. He does not seem to have been a patient man, how\u00adever, and I would believe that Clara was a bet\u00adter teach\u00ader of his inven\u00adtions. Even know\u00ading he was being filmed did\u00adn\u2019t stop him phys\u00adic\u00adally bend\u00ading people\u2019s bod\u00adies in ways that would be con\u00adsidered dan\u00adger\u00adous today. But, as Dianne poin\u00adted out, since nobody ever did get hurt in his stu\u00addio, he prob\u00adably had a sense as to just how far he could push people\u2019s bodies.<\/p>\n

Our under\u00adstand\u00ading of bio\u00admech\u00adan\u00adics and the import\u00adance of mov\u00ading muscles cor\u00adrectly is improv\u00ading, not only in Pil\u00adates. In tee-ball classes for 5\u2011year-olds they teach them how to throw a ball prop\u00aderly, some\u00adthing I nev\u00ader learned as a kid. Maybe the next gen\u00ader\u00ada\u00adtion will have few\u00ader knee prob\u00adlems as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Pil\u00adates stu\u00addio where I go is, togeth\u00ader with lots of oth\u00ader stu\u00addi\u00ados, host\u00ading Pil\u00adates Day. The first event was watch\u00ading film of Joseph Pil\u00adates in action, accom\u00adpan\u00adied by pop\u00adcorn, com\u00adment\u00adary, and lots of laughter and aston\u00adish\u00adment at his meth\u00adods. And a hun\u00addreds com\u00adpet\u00adi\u00adtion, just to get people warmed up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hobbies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.laurenwood.org\/anyway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}