{"id":81458,"date":"2024-03-01T15:42:54","date_gmt":"2024-03-01T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pilates4fitness.com\/site\/?p=81458"},"modified":"2026-01-31T18:10:53","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:10:53","slug":"those-aha-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilates4fitness.com\/virtual\/2024\/03\/01\/those-aha-moments\/","title":{"rendered":"Those AHA Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The joy of helping a student find the \u201caha\u201d moment has become an absolutely riveting experience for me. The fact that I continue to find as much fulfillment and excitement from it, as much as the the student, is the kicker! Every time it happens, I have an affirmation, a confirmation, a \u201cHell Yes!\u201d that I am walking the right path. It’s been 20+ years and I still get juiced up when it happens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I tell new students that it usually takes a little time for the new patterns, sensations, and conscious actions to catch and take hold in the mind and body. I help to dispel frustration and remind them to be patient with themselves<\/em> to allow the mind and body to sequentially embrace the action<\/em> such that it all becomes easy, natural, effortless and almost unconscious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, its easier said then done. And \u201ccan\u2019t\u201d is a word never permitted in the studio. I tell students through in the process of teaching that, “being present, conscious and specific in the movement is a cognitive process and it is the consistent repetition of the movement that lays the new pattern – the mind\/body connection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is the addictive aspect of this movement therapy.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

As we know, about 30-40 sessions later, the student notices that the lines of their body have changed, they know when, where, how and what to do when cued and the old \u201cI don’t know why I do that\u201d habits are minimal or eliminated. It is then that we have the find and feel the good \u201caha moment\u201d of doing a swan dive on the Wunda and enjoying it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s a testament to the power of Pilates. It’s an affirmation of the truth in the work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grateful to simply be one of teachers acting as a conduit in sharing this methodology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI didn’t create it or make it up, I just teach it!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man who created the methodology and the equipment we use to work our bodies in the method said,
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“I invented all these machines back in Germany – lived there ’till ’25 – used to exercise rheumatic patients. I thought, why use my strength? So I made a machine to do it for me. Look, you see it resists your movement in just the right way so those long inner muscles really have to work against it. That why you can concentrate on movement. You must always do it slowly and smoothly. Then your whole body is in it.<\/em>“<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

— Joseph Pilates quote, \u201cPilates provides Dancers with Machine-Made Learning\u201d by Frances Herridge, December 6, 1946, Critical And Amusements, PM Magazine.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

More Phrases & Imagry<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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  • \u201cLegs will feel like feathers that float when the abdominals are deeply engaged.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cPull in and float up to Teaser.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • \u201cUse the breath. Move with the exhale\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    As Joseph Pilates said,
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    \u201cCorrectly executed to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.\u201d<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
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