“Why do we have to change positions so often?” We lie down, sit up, roll, kneel, stand, lie back down again. It must seem inefficient to those who ask, because they often suggest a quick solution: Why not remain in one position and finish all these movements before changing body orientation? Let...

Once you stop comparing yourself to a fictional “perfectly symmetrical person,” you can begin training your body as it is. That perspective shift will be a turning point in your practice. The Attributes of Pilates: Symmetry, Asymmetry, and the Path to Uniform Development Over the years, I’ve wat...

A potential client called the studio recently wanting to join a Reformer class. She had taken Pilates elsewhere and wanted to continue.I asked what kind of Pilates she had done.“The kind with music,” she said.So I asked a simple follow-up question: whether the exercises were taught in sequence—th...