Springboard Pilates : Books, Videos & CDs


	The Pilates Body and Pilates Body Kit by Brooke SilerThe Pilates Body is an intelligently-written book that takes you step-by-step through the mat exercises. The Kit is fantastic if you're an auditory learner: she provides flash cards of the exercises and describes them in detail on a CD. She then takes you through the exercises at regular speed. If you are tired of being confined to your TV to do Pilates videos, try these CD's for a change of pace. Brooke Siler is trained in the same program that I graduated from, so her order and the details she points out are the same as what I teach. Your Health by Joseph H. Pilates Pilates' diatribe on everything from proper posture and breathing to how to raise healthy children and what furniture to buy for your spinal alignment. "Your Health" lashes out against the physical education system of 1934, but many of the themes still hold true today. Pilates' Return to Life through Contrology by Joseph H. Pilates This book represents the first major publication in 1945 by Joseph H. Pilates and William J. Miller detailing the exercises, poses, and instructions fundamental to the matwork developed by Joseph and Clara Pilates. Based on his concepts of a balanced Body and Mind, these exercises are drawn from the approach espoused by the early Greeks and developed over the course of Pilates' life. “Bethany and Meredith have provided outstanding instruction, working rigorously with the principles of Pilates while attending to the individual needs of their clients. They have become an important part of my life, helping me to not only greatly improve my practice, but to strengthen my mental and physical well-being and health in many ways. Even on the coldest, darkest mornings, I look forward to coming into the studio.” Reid S.