This beautifully illustrated volume provides a comprehensive guide to fascia-focused movement in original and contemporary Pilates mat, reformer, and studio applications. Each of the book’s 14 chapters illustrates how each principle of fascia-focused movement is expressed in Pilates exercise. In addition to a comprehensive exercise compendium, Fascia in Motion includes chapters on specialized applications of fascia-focused movement in Pilates including:
- Pilates fascia-focused movement for aging well
- Pilates fascia-focused movement for computer posture
- Pilates fascia-focused movement for osteoporosis
- Pilates fascia-focused movement for hip and knee replacement
The text is supplemented with links to video of Elizabeth Larkam demonstrating each of the exercises personally. A truly stunning achievement and the synthesis of a lifetime’s dedication to the art and science of Pilates.
What Pilates Style magazine says about Fascia in Motion: Fascia-focused movement for Pilates…
WHY WE LOVE IT This comprehensive guide to fascia-focused Pilates movement represents a lifetime of Larkam’s work, complete with color photographs and tables documenting the requirements, intent, attributes and outcome of hundreds of movements in exquisite detail.
Section I: Theory and Practice
- The fascial system, a whole-body organ of communication
- Joseph H. Pilates, creator of movement, inventor of exercise apparatus
- H. Pilates mat exercises, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Fascia-focused mat exercises
- H. Pilates reformer exercises, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Fascia-focused reformer exercises
- H. Pilates chair, trapeze table and barrels exercises, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Fascia-focused exercises for the chair, trapeze table and barrel
Section II: Specialized Applications
- H. Pilates and fascia-focused auxiliary equipment exercises
- Posture adaptations to technological devices with screen interfaces, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Aging well, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Bone health, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Knee and hip resurfacing and replacement, a fascia-focused movement perspective
- Gait, a fascia-focused movement perspective
