Upcoming Pilates Certification Course

An upcoming mat certification course for you by Polestar Asia:

Principles of Fitness: May 8-9, 2009
Mat Level 1: May 23-24, 2009
Mat Level 2: June 20-21, 2009

Call Sky Pilates at 62350097 or email Audrey at adcotta@yahoo.com

You might want to read my posts on what it takes to be a Pilates instructor and Differentiating various Pilates Styles

Video on Pelvic Floor

I guess my Pilates mentor was getting frustrated with her trainee teachers for being so confused with the pelvic floor. They just don't seem to understand where exactly this group of muscles is located and how it works.

I don't blame them, it is really hard to imagine the location of the pelvic floor from 2D diagrams. You just can't show your students with tactile cues like touching and stroking this group of muscles and say, "Hey, here is your pelvic floor and now contract it!". Imagery cues like "squeezing your sitting bones together" or " bringing your pubic bone and tail bone closer" sometimes make it even more confusing on how to activate the pelvic floor.

But pelvic floor is just too important in our daily function and it is almost a sin if one do not know how to use it properly. My mentor found this wonderful video by Samsara which explains why you need to work the pelvic floor. The video actually answers the question why men need to work their pelvic floors too!

Picture says a thousand words, and moving pictures definitely say more! So go take a look at the video :-)