Author: Kathryn Ross-Nash Publisher: ISBN: 9780990746508 Category : Languages : en Pages : 366
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The Red Thread: The Integrated System and Variations of Pilates - The Mat gives to you over 35 years of experience in the Pilates Method Mat in one book. The book not only instructs how to execute the goal of each exercise, but how to build with variations and challenge each exercise, preparing the body for the next exercise to come. The book explains how and why to choose a variation to suit the needs of the student. It includes a comprehensive look at the connection between not only the Prior Exercise and the "Thread" that binds them, but the "Thread" that runs through the link between the Spinal Function of the exercise's predecessor. The book includes the purpose of each exercise, which enables you to "break it down" so the Purpose remains unchanged and the Method preserved. The Red Thread: The Integrated System and Variations of Pilates - The Mat offers Teachers tips on how to spot, what to look for, the Don't, Do's and Major Benefits of the exercise. The 1400 plus photos are taken both from the traditional vantage point and from the Teacher's view. The Pilates Method is also presented in easy to read Charts. These Charts breakdown, in simple form, what to "Add Next." This will enable you to create a perfect workout to strengthen what is weak and challenge what is strong. The Charts offer a multitude of vantage points to build the work from. These include Spinal Functions and cover a vast range of injuries. "My hope is that The Red Thread: The Integrated System and Variations of Pilates - The Mat will give both the Teacher and the Student insight into the Method we know as Pilates, the tools you need and elicit critical thinking. I hope it gives the insight needed to understand that the Pilates Method is NOT just a list of exercises and why, at each level of the work, one exercise follows another. The Red Thread: The Integrated System and Variations of Pilates - The Mat presents an understanding that this Method is NOT black and white, but a beautiful colorful canvas as unique as the body before you."
Author: Kathryn Ross-Nash Publisher: ISBN: 9780990746560 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 406
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"The High/Electric Chair is a crucial apparatus in the building of a strong Pilates Foundation. I didn't appreciate its versatility until my son came to me with a football player who had shattered his collarbone. This boy was a high school senior and the break had occurred a week prior to opening day. My sons' belief in the Method and his Mother was greater than mine, but he was right. There was a way for me to train this boy, who couldn't lie down and had never trained before. "A Chair is a Chair, what you do on one you can do on the other" was what I had been taught. My Teachers were right. Mat & Reformer were out (no lying down). He couldn't do Baby Chair for obvious reasons. We couldn't do the Wunda Chair...he would have killed himself! So off to the High Chair we went. On this amazing apparatus, where Stability is honed, I translated the entire Method and created a safe workout, while avoiding the injury. The young man was strong and fit when he returned to the field for his final three games, I stood yet again in wonderment of Joe Pilates genius and grateful for the tools he left us." Unique to the Red Thread (R) Book Series, you will not only learn the how of each exercise, but the why, when and what. This book contains photos and instructions that will guide youthrough each exercise with ease. There are never before seen variations Ms. Ross-Nash personally translated to the High Chair, through the application of her Red Thread (R), that will build stability, strength, Powerhouse, alignment and deepen your understanding of this brilliant method we call Pilates.
Author: Kathryn M Ross-Nash Publisher: ISBN: 9780990746522 Category : Languages : en Pages : 278
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"How do you build a bridge? On a strong foundation." -KRN The Red Thread of Pilates The Integrated System and Variation of Pilates - The Foundational Reformer(R) is like a good parent of a baby. It supports you, surrounds you, guides' you, to make centered and balanced decisions. It tries to give you a stable foundation. This book is filled with all the tools you need to build a stable foundation. There are clear explanations of transitions between the exercises and how the transitions are exercises themselves. Throughout the book, you will learn the Thread that connects each exercise to develope your unique workout. Each exercises has suggestions on where to safely replace an exercise by applying The Pilates Method. There are thousands of photos, each exercise provides a side view and an Instructors' view that were taken exactly at the same. The photos and instructions will guide you through each exercise with ease. The book is full of teaching tips and what to look for as well as the Goal and Purpose of each exercise. Perhaps the most important of the books, The Foundational Reformer will help you create a strong and balanced foundation in which all the other work may be supported by. At this level, The Reformer builds a strong and solid Foundational Mat. A strong Foundational Mat is your key to a balanced body and the development of all the exercises to come. Unique to the Red Thread(R) Book Series, you will not only learn the how of each exercise, but the why, when and what. There are rarely seen variations Ms. Ross-Nash personally was taught and teaches shared here and utilized through the application of her Red Thread(R). These will build stability, strength, Powerhouse, alignment and deepen your understanding of this brilliant method we call Pilates.
Author: Tracy Maurstad Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781978315297 Category : Languages : en Pages : 170
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"The Red Thread of Pilates - The Mat"(c), by Kathryn Ross-Nash, is a comprehensive resource of the Pilates Mat Repertoire. But it's SO big, it contains SO much detailed information, it can be hard to wrap your head around all of it. The Study Guide is full of tools I created for myself and my Facebook Study Group to help get the most out of "The Red Thread"(c). It's designed to help you do an organized, self-paced study of Kathi's book. You'll find charts and indexes not contained in "The Red Thread" to help you comprehend the different threads and Kathi's Add Next system. Then worksheets for each exercise, detailing all the variations and the Performance Order of the whole repertoire up to that point. Lastly, a Progression Checklist to help you keep track of which of the hundreds of variations you've explored. These tools helped me get the most out of my investment in "The Red Thread of Pilates - The Mat"(c). I hope it does the same for you.
Author: Verena Geweniger Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3642381146 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 310
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The Pilates book for professionals: Background information and extensive practical knowledge on using the Pilates approach in prevention and therapy. The foundations include, among others, the "Pilates Principles" (Breathing, Centering, Flow, Precision, Concentration, Control and Coordination). The extensive praxis part presents all techniques and exercises (mat and equipment training) with detailed photos of movement sequences and with precise instructions and explanations of each exercise. Class plans provide concrete suggestions for the design of course units with prevention orientation and patient examples illustrate treatment procedures and therapeutic effects of the Pilates approach for different symptoms. - A must-have for all Pilates professionals: teachers, trainers, physiotherapists.
Author: J.W.G. Jacobs Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 1614998787 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 370
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Generalized hypermobility has been known since ancient times, and a clinical description of Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) is said to have first been recorded by Hippocrates in 400 BC. Hypermobility syndromes occur frequently, but the wide spectrum of possible symptoms, coupled with a relative lack of awareness and recognition, are the reason that they are frequently not recognized, or remain undiagnosed. This book is an international, multidisciplinary guide to hypermobility syndromes, and EDS in particular. It aims to create better awareness of hypermobility syndromes among health professionals, including medical specialists, and to be a guide to the management of such syndromes for patients and practitioners. It is intended for use in daily clinical practice rather than as a reference book for research or the latest developments, and has been written to be understandable for any healthcare worker or educated patient without compromise to the scientific content. The book is organized as follows: chapters on classifications and genetics are followed by chapters on individual types, organ (system) manifestations and complications, and finally ethics and therapeutic strategies, with an appendix on surgery and the precautions which should attend it. A special effort has been made to take account of the perspective of the patient; two of the editors have EDS. The book will be of interest to patients with hypermobility syndromes and their families, as well as to all those healthcare practitioners who may encounter such syndromes in the course of their work.
Author: Nicole Potter Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 158115934X Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 461
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In this rich resource for American actors, renowned movement teachers and directors reveal the physical skills needed for the stage and screen. Experts in a wide array of disciplines provide remarkable insight into the Alexander technique, the use of psychological gesture, period movement, the work of Rudolph Laban, postmodern choreography, and Suzuki training, to name but a few. Those who want to pursue serious training will be able to consult the appendix for listings of the best teachers and schools in the country. This inspiring collection is a must read for all actors, directors, and teachers of theater looking for stimulation and new approaches.
Author: Kathryn Ross-Nash Publisher: ISBN: 9781450740807 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 40
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Little devices including elastic bands off the head of a bunch of broccoli, a tennis ball, or hand towel can be formidable weapons in the war against foot pain. For thousands of years the benefits of reflexology have been enjoyed. This edition takes it further by suggesting exercises that increase ankle stability, flexibility, alignment, and propulsion.
Author: Charles Bazerman Publisher: Parlor Press LLC ISBN: 1643170015 Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 486
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Genre studies and genre approaches to literacy instruction continue to develop in many regions and from a widening variety of approaches. Genre has provided a key to understanding the varying literacy cultures of regions, disciplines, professions, and educational settings. GENRE IN A CHANGING WORLD provides a wide-ranging sampler of the remarkable variety of current work. The twenty-four chapters in this volume, reflecting the work of scholars in Europe, Australasia, and North and South America, were selected from the over 400 presentations at SIGET IV (the Fourth International Symposium on Genre Studies) held on the campus of UNISUL in Tubarão, Santa Catarina, Brazil in August 2007—the largest gathering on genre to that date. The chapters also represent a wide variety of approaches, including rhetoric, Systemic Functional Linguistics, media and critical cultural studies, sociology, phenomenology, enunciation theory, the Geneva school of educational sequences, cognitive psychology, relevance theory, sociocultural psychology, activity theory, Gestalt psychology, and schema theory. Sections are devoted to theoretical issues, studies of genres in the professions, studies of genre and media, teaching and learning genre, and writing across the curriculum. The broad selection of material in this volume displays the full range of contemporary genre studies and sets the ground for a next generation of work.
Author: Dave Eggers Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0385351402 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 464
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INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A bestselling dystopian novel that tackles surveillance, privacy and the frightening intrusions of technology in our lives—a “compulsively readable parable for the 21st century” (Vanity Fair). When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world’s most powerful internet company, she feels she’s been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users’ personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. As Mae tours the open-plan office spaces, the towering glass dining facilities, the cozy dorms for those who spend nights at work, she is thrilled with the company’s modernity and activity. There are parties that last through the night, there are famous musicians playing on the lawn, there are athletic activities and clubs and brunches, and even an aquarium of rare fish retrieved from the Marianas Trench by the CEO. Mae can’t believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world—even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her shaken, even as her role at the Circle becomes increasingly public. What begins as the captivating story of one woman’s ambition and idealism soon becomes a heart-racing novel of suspense, raising questions about memory, history, privacy, democracy, and the limits of human knowledge.
Author: Kathryn Ross-Nash
Author: Kathryn Ross-Nash
Author: Kathryn M Ross-Nash
Author: Tracy Maurstad
Author: Verena Geweniger
Author: J.W.G. Jacobs
Author: Nicole Potter
Author: Kathryn Ross-Nash
Author: Charles Bazerman
Author: Dave Eggers