Book Description
The most authoritative, step-by-step guide to Pilates available on the market. Popular for decades with dancers, athletes, and celebrities, the Pilates Method is the perfect equipment-free workout for a stronger, leaner, fitter body. With great emphasis on precision and awareness, not only is Pilates great for the body, but for the mind as well. Using step-by-step mat-work exercises and a wide range of programs, from beginner to advanced, Pilate's Mind and Body is the only practical guide that shows you all of the proper steps to follow and how to avoid common mistakes in your conditioning.


About the Author
Alycea Ungaro is a certified Pilates teacher and licensed physical therapist who discovered Pilates at the age of 14, when a foot injury derailed her classical dance career. In 1995 she opened Tribeca Bodyworks, New York City's largest studio devoted to the Pilates Method.

FROM OUR EDITORS

Three reasons to buy Pilates: Body in Motion: 1. Author Alycea Ungara is a veteran Pilates illumanti, having founded Manhattan's huge Tribeca Bodyworks in 1995. 2. The book couldn't be designed better: The full-color, step-by-step photographs and the accompanying lucid text present the Pilates exercise system in ways that any novice can understand -- and remember. 3. The annotated "Self-Corrections" sidebars focus on common mistakes and provide tips on performing the exercises in tip-top form.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

The most authoritative, step-by-step guide to Pilates available on the market.

Popular for decades with dancers, athletes, and celebrities, the Pilates Method is the perfect equipment-free workout for a stronger, leaner, fitter body. With great emphasis on precision and awareness, not only is Pilates great for the body, but for the mind as well. Using step-by-step mat-work exercises and a wide range of programs, from beginner to advanced, Pilate's Mind and Body is the only practical guide that shows you all of the proper steps to follow and how to avoid common mistakes in your conditioning.