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Gary Calderone
August 2009

 Author’s Note on the Pilates Path to Health

I offer this book as a bridge to a broader and deeper understanding of the benefits of practicing Pilates. My perspective on Pilates, as a practice, a felt sense of something greater than mere exercise, expanded my own understanding of self healing.

The practice of awareness in one’s body, in my physical body, left me with an unspoken benefit of Pilates. With that awareness of my body, an awakening began to take place in my mind—my thoughts, ideas, and beliefs began to take on an expanded awareness.  Something in me was waking up through this practice of Pilates.  The more I refined my focus, the lens in which I perceive my life, prompted me to look deeper within myself, and consequently, observe the reflection of the world around me.

Rather than reacting to an all encompassing force of the world, like gravity, I began to deepen my observation and understanding of that force as just another medium that I could respond to appropriately as needed.

The felt sense I noticed, you may notice.  . . . Much of what the outcome of Pilates is for me is acquired through this developing practice of awareness.

If this book helps you to expand your awareness of what self healing means to you, then the book’s done its job. As you read these pages and begin or deepen your Pilates practice, you’ll feel; you’ll open; you’ll leap toward a direct experience with what is possible in your body and in your mind. You’lldefault to what is missing when ‘out’ of that experience. You’ll access an internal compass, navigating within and through your body, mind, and spirit. You’ll create a newfound relationship with gravity and your health.  You’ll return to life.

 . . . or so I hope, as I did.

                                    --Gary Calderone

 

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