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This is a good reference book for mat Pilates. The sections on apparatus and small equipment are really not worth it. It's well laid out with clear instructions, watch points and photographs.

This was published in 2010 and it felt like an older Pilates book. There are a few things I wouldn't do as a teacher but I know I was encouraged to do as a student many years ago.

This was okay. I listened on #audio and likely wouldn‘t have stayed with it otherwise. No real new info, the parts the Dr. contributed were worthwhile and encouraging, the main author was a bit annoying and, honestly, sexist. This one hasn‘t aged well but the basic premise, keep moving, don‘t eat crap, and stay engaged with your community, is valid. I finished it at my gym that just opened! #BookspinBingo @TheAromaofBooks

You need garbage to make compost.

The point is not your pain but your relationship to it. You can get attached to it to the point where you think it is you and allow it to define your whole life, or you can think it‘s special and you deserve extra points, or your self-esteem can be so low you think you deserve it. The problem is the attachment.

The body feels separate from the heart, the heart from the mind, and the mind from the body. Indeed, you often think one thing, feel another, and do a third, living in a state of perpetual contradiction. No wonder we‘re confused; no wonder we‘re in pain.

3/5⭐ This book is part memoir, part self-help using the medium of dance. I appreciate the author's emphasis on breaking free from society's negativity. The stories and reflections from her personal life are told authentically. There are far worse self-help books, but it's too drawn out for me to focus on all the content. After about the first third of it I skimmed just the exercises/prompts, many of which I've noted down to try. #roll100