February 2008
1 post
Spinal injury regeneration hope →
Article on the BBC News website
November 2007
4 posts
“Pilathèque yourself before you wreck yourself!”
– Fergus Jackson (Boylates client and copywriter extraordinaire)
Fantasy Pilates Client List
People I would love to teach (subject to change): - Stephen Fry - Madonna - The Mighty Boosh - Johnny Depp - Perez Hilton - Man U team - Derren Brown - Karl Lagerfeld - Dalai Lama - Angela Merkel
August 2007
12 posts
Enlightenment →
Just found this on PostSecret. I want to know!
Thinking with the spinal cord →
Just came across this article published in January, about Danish scientists discovering that the spinal cord uses network mechanisms similar to those in the brain. Or as ‘Science’ magazine puts it “…Balanced increases in synaptic excitation and inhibition operate in spinal motoneurons to produce rhythmic bursts of action potentials that are stochastic in nature. This...
“Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
– Joseph Hubertus Pilates, ‘Return to Life through Contrology’, 1945
WatchThe Boy With The Incredible Brain This is a documentary (48 min.) about Daniel Tammet, a so called ‘prodigious savant’ who can do massive calculations in his head in seconds and he doesn’t even have to use maths! He just sees the figures of the solution appear in his mind’s eye like a landscape… Oh, and he speaks something like 7 languages and learnt Icelandic in a...
Not a brick wall
Our bodies are ‘tensegrity’ structures, functioning through a complex balance of compression and tension forces. Author of Anatomy Trains, Tom Myers explains.
Love to move →
An article by Frank Forencich on ‘autotelic’ exercise, i.e. exercise for the love of moving, not for the incentive of a flat tummy…
“If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you...”
– Joseph Hubertus Pilates
A little Pilates history
Joseph Hubertus Pilates, founder of the Pilates method, was born in 1880 in Mönchengladbach, Germany. According to various biographies, he was a sickly child, small for his age, and so started very early on to dedicate himself to the physical training and improvement of his body. Besides gymnastics and body building he studied Eastern techniques like yoga and zen meditation. In 1912 Pilates moved...
March 2007
1 post
