Skills for Pilates, that is! Deborah Lessen’s Visual Assessment workshop held yesterday at Bodies in Balance Pilates studio yesterday was, as expected, chock full of information! Deb has “mad” assessment skills and she claims, Carola Trier, her teacher and descendant of Joseph Pilates, taught this way. She says, “While teaching, you were constantly assessing but not teaching your client anatomy, but teaching them how to move well and efficient.” Teaching how to strengthen muscles from their shortest length to the longest.
This is demonstrated well in the Side Bend on the Reformer where the exercise begins at rest and the body has to move with strategy to get up to the end result of the long side plank position. The body has to fire up certain muscle patterning to do this correctly.

I feel so lucky that my training is with Deborah Lessen, independent and straight from the source of what Joseph Pilates intended!

In Good Health,
Gail