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23 Cards in this Set
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Where is Joseph Pilates born? Year? |
Düsseldorf, Germany 1880 |
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What did Joseph suffer from as a child? |
Asthma Ricketts a rheumatic fever |
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When did Joseph leave Germany? |
1923 |
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Who did he meet, when he was emigrating to the United States? |
A nurse Clara to whom he would later marry. |
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Where did Joseph and Clara set up a studio? |
New York |
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In what year were Joe and Claire’s style of exercise termed Pilates? |
1960 |
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Who became the first director of Joe and Clara’s original studio? |
Romana Kryzanowska |
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Who opened his studio in Los Angeles in 1970 we attracted many Hollywood stars? |
Ron Fletcher |
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Who were the only Pilates practitioners ever to be certified officially by Joe to a special program at the State University of New York? |
Kathy Grant and Lolita San Miguel |
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What other students of Joe and Clara opens their own studios? |
Eve Gentry, Bruce King, Mary Bowen and Robert Fitzgerald. |
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What is Contrology? |
Contrology Is the complete coordination of body mind and spirit. Through Contrology first purposely acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of his exercises you gradually and progressively acquire all the natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your mental and subconscious activities. - Joseph Pilates 1945 |
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Who founded Polestar Pilates? |
Brent D. Anderson, PhD, PT, OCS and co-founder Elizabeth J. Larkham, MA, Feldebkrais Practioner 1992 |
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Polestar Pilates was influenced from within the community by whom? |
Eve Gentry, Romana Kryzanowska, Carol’s Trier, Jillian Hessel, Lolita San Miguel, Michele Larsson, Jean Claude West and Ron Fletcher (Diane Severino and Michael Podwal) |
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What were the external community influences for Polestars Pilates? |
Manual Therapy (Norwegian/Australian), Neuro-Linguistic Psychology (Alastair Greetham), Imagry (Eric Franklin), Contemporary Therapies (Carol Davis) and Feldebkrais (movement exploration) |
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What is Polestars mission? |
Polestar is an international community of research-orientated movement science professionals, transferring knowledge to our clients to improve health and well-being through the application of Pilates and various methodologies of movement science. |
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What is Polestars mission? |
Polestar is an international community of research-orientated movement science professionals, transferring knowledge to our clients to improve health and well-being through the application of Pilates and various methodologies of movement science. |
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What is Polestars vision? |
To impact the world through intelligent movement, fostering awareness of self and community. |
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What are the three guiding Pilates principles? |
1. Whole body health 2. Whole body commitment 3. Breath |
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What is whole-body health? |
Whole body health refers to the development of the body, the mind and the spirit in complete coordination with each other. |
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How do we achieve whole-body commitment? |
Whole body commitment is mental and physical discipline, a work ethic, an attitude towards one’s self and assuming a lifestyle that is necessary to achieve Whole Body Health. |
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Why is breathing a guiding Pilates principle? |
The breath is an integral part of the overall body functioning, increasing volume capacity, oxygenation and all other physiological changes. Full consistent inhalation and exhalation helps the circulatory system nourish all of the tissues with oxygen-rich rich blood while carrying away impurities and metabolic waste. Pilates referred to this cleansing mechanism as the “internal shower” which resulted in mental and physical invigorating and rejuvenation. |
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List the Pilates evolved movement principles? |
- Whole body movement - Breathing - Balanced muscle development - Concentration - Control - Centring - Precision - Rhythm |
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What are Polestar’s principles of movement? |
1. Breathing 2. Axial Elongation/Core Control 3. Spine Articulation 4. Organisation of head neck and shoulders 5. Weight-bearing and alignment of the extremities 6. Movement integration |
