In order to properly understand the genesis and evolution of Pilates, you simply must get Joe's books and read them. Each is a one-night read yet they're both very long on meaning and by reading them, you'll understand how he wanted his work, his method, used.
If you think Pilates is a discreet physical experience, reading Return to Life and Your Health will immediately cure you of that silly notion. Reading Joe's books are the very best way for you to begin to know Joe and to use him to help figure out how you, in your brilliantly perfect uniqueness, fit into the ever-broadening world of Pilates.
The main goal of the Pilates Nun is to help you find yourself in this work and, believe it or not, Joe and Clara are the best people to help us on our way to achieving that goal. It's definitely all about Joe & Clara.
I'm not sure this will work, after all, I'm the Pilates Nun, not the Pilates Geek, but I think, I hope, I pray here are links to the Amazon entry for Joe's books. Should these links deliver you deep into my personal Amazon account, please buy your books on my studio account - not my personal one - so I can expense them! Kidding! Yikes!
Buy them now and when you receive them, read them right away.
Brief sermon: If you're going to be the best Pilater you can be, you're going to have to be effective and efficient in all things. And that begins with this. Right here. Right now. Get the books. When they come, read them right away. Amen.
To hear Joe's voice through those books is to glimpse his genius and his frustration. You'll clearly sense his passion, the forcefulness of his will and his famous charasmatic style as he gives example after example of the benefits, great and small, of his method.
The overarching thesis of Joe's books is that his method of exercise creates and supports a happy, healthy and long life. Whole body health and wellness is what we'd call it today, but Joe used a ton of words to say the the same thing; practice his exercises faithfully and the benefits of your very best life will automatically flow.
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