A course for Pilates Instructors and Sstudent

As a Pilates Instructor, you know that Pilates works. But how do you explain this to someone who has not gone through years of training -- or even 30 Pilates sessions? How can you relate the life-altering value of Pilates to someone who must understand the mechanics of Pilates before they ever sign up for a class?

The world of science and engineering does have something interesting to say about how our bodies work; the concept is is named tensegrity. Buckminster Fuller created the name; it is a contraction of "tensional integrity". Most man-made construction is based on compression structures. Tensegrity is different -- it is a delightfully elegant, material-efficient means of creating structure. Nature uses tensegrity everywhere; our musculoskeletal system uses tensegrity.

The mathematical principles of tensegrity are the key to explain why Pilates works. Pilates instructors already understand these concepts -- on an intuitive level. Why Pilates Works gives you a powerful and completely new way to relate these concepts to your staff and your students.