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Let Jennifer be your guide as you meet yourself on the mat!
Build strength and endurance, increase suppleness and flexibility; enhance your range of motion, stamina and determination; feel fitter, stronger, sexier. Create the body you've always dreamed of, as you become more confident and empowered! Reveal the shape you were always intended to have: long, lean, toned muscles, extraordinary abdominal strength and definition, enhanced overall muscular capacity, improved breathing, proper posture, reduced stress and peace of mind.
Also featuring the complete Magic Circle and Sculpting Series, create a "new body" almost overnight---Improve your strength, stamina and overall flexibility the famous non-impact, non-weight-bearing system of physical and mental conditioning that lengthens and strengthens the entire body and creates unparalleled core strength for total mind-body-spirit transformation.
Come discover why Pilates is the most popular cross-training component for serious yogis and fitness enthusiasts, worldwide!
Build strength and endurance, increase suppleness and flexibility; enhance your range of motion, stamina and determination; feel fitter, stronger, sexier. Create the body you've always dreamed of, as you become more confident and empowered! Reveal the shape you were always intended to have: long, lean, toned muscles, extraordinary abdominal strength and definition, enhanced overall muscular capacity, improved breathing, proper posture, reduced stress and peace of mind.
Also featuring the complete Magic Circle and Sculpting Series, create a "new body" almost overnight---Improve your strength, stamina and overall flexibility the famous non-impact, non-weight-bearing system of physical and mental conditioning that lengthens and strengthens the entire body and creates unparalleled core strength for total mind-body-spirit transformation.
Come discover why Pilates is the most popular cross-training component for serious yogis and fitness enthusiasts, worldwide!
Author
Jennifer Kries
Jennifer Kries is an integrated wellness and fitness expert, an author, a speaker, and an internationally renowned mind-body-spirit innovator. Her award-winning The Method Series DVDs have sold over 15 million units worldwide. She lives in San Diego, California.
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Jennifer Kries - The Pilates Mat Book - Jennifer Kries
ISBN: 9781483528977
This book is dedicated to the spirit of Joseph H Pilates and his remarkable contribution that continues to touch the lives of all who experience his revolutionary and life-changing work.
Jennifer Kries' Pilates Method Teacher Training Intensive The Mat Exercises
Table of Contents:
The Complete List
Pre-Exercisesm
Mat Skill Levels
The Hundred
Pre-Roll Up
Roll Up
Leg Circles
Rolling Like a Ball
Single Leg Pull
Double Leg Stretch
Single Straight Leg Stretch (Scissors
Double Leg Lower Lift
Criss Cross
Pelvic Life
Spine Stretch Forward
Open Leg Rocker
Corkscrew
Saw
Spine Twist
Pillow
Cobra
Single Leg Kick
Double Leg Kick
Bent-Leg Curled Push-Up
Bent-Leg Flat Yoga Press
Active Cat Yoga Press
Push Up (Plank with Battement)
Bow
Neck Pull
Roll Over
Side Series (Pendulum, Toss-Up, Circles, Bicycle, Bent-Leg Cross-Over, Ronde-de-Jambe, Parallel Legs Beating, Hot Potato)
Jack Knife
(Single Bent-Leg, Classic, Arms-to-Ears, Oppositional Circles)
Swimming
Seal
Boomerang
Swan
Baby Swan
Incline Plank with Battements
Sculpting Series:
Ninety Degrees Front, Ninety Degrees Side, Hammer Curl, Chest Expansion, Boxing, Ladybug, Side-Bend, Shaving, Zipper, Arm Circles)
Magic Circle Series:
Hip level, Chest Level, Halo, Side of Hip, Earring, Triceps, Inner Thigh Standing)
Introduction
Let Jennifer be your guide as you meet yourself on the mat
Build strength and endurance, increase suppleness and flexibility; enhance your range of motion, stamina and determination; feel fitter, stronger, sexier. Create the body you’ve always dreamed of, as you become more confident and empowered! Reveal the shape you were always intended to have: long, lean, toned muscles, extraordinary abdominal strength and definition, enhanced overall muscular capacity, improved breathing, proper posture, reduced stress and peace of mind!
Taken from Jennifer’s official Pilates Mat Teacher Training Manual, this Pilates Mat Book is a work-book,
an essential, refreshingly simple, no-frills
guide to the exercises in Joseph Pilates Mat Syllabus. Featuring two of Jennifer’s actual students, this book contains 48 pages of beautiful color photos that show the step-by-step progression of each exercise, as well as offering explanation of concepts like effortless effort
and principle of opposition,
proper technique, breathing, repetitions and modifications. Also features the complete Magic Circle and Sculpting Series!
Whether you are a beginner, or a long-time Pilates devotee, learn essential principles or hone your mind-body skills with this authentic, classical Pilates mat work-book
created by Jennifer Kries, 2nd Generation Master Teacher, one of the world’s leading Pilates pioneers. With a focus on alignment and dynamic, flowing movement, the Pilates Mat Book will provide you with an inspiring and informative introduction, a clear understanding of the essential elements of Pilates mat work: learn how to breathe properly, and find your core in an effective and accessible way or refine your work as a more advanced student. A unique opportunity to focus on Pilates Mat fundamentals, or take your practice to the next level, while cultivating the skills to create your own at-home practice.
Create a new body
almost overnight—Improve your strength, stamina and overall flexibility the famous non-impact, non-weight-bearing system of physical and mental conditioning that lengthens and strengthens the entire body and creates unparalleled core strength for total mind-body-spirit transformation. Come discover why Pilates is the most popular cross-training component for serious yogis and fitness enthusiasts, worldwide!
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