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March Matness: The Push Up dismount.  Reach through the foot and crown of the head. Feel the heel of the hand armpit connection. Keep those scapulae still and abducted and upwardly rotated (down and out)! Enjoy!  all photos ©2007 J Stacey.

The Push Up © 2007 J. Stacey

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ Course. Moraga, Summer. Classic Pilates in, on and by the water. Jennifer M. Stacey Studio Pilates 

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Pictures from Jennifer Stacey’s Peak Performance Pilates Manuals: Movement Perspectives™, Teaching the Reformer Repertoire, Roller Play, Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ and soon to be published Mat Repertoire, and Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ manual. https://peakperformancepilates.com/store/

 Balance Control. All photos ©2007 J Stacey. Reach the leg/foot up to the ceiling, to animate the center and lift the hips. Push the other leg into your hands. The chest is away from the chin (Kathy Grant’s lemon under the chin – do not make lemonade), shoulder blades on the mat. On the last picture Raisa is too high up on the neck, she needs to rotate around her xiphoid, lower her heart and lengthen through the thoracolumbar spine. She is reaching through her long leg beautifully.  You can practice on the Spine Corrector, Arc, Chair (with for under top of Chair) or roller.                   Nice work in Tuscany, in Helsinki, Finland, and Dordogne, France!    #Marchmatness #Marchmatnessbalancecontrol  #controlbalance #pilatesplusvacation  #Marchmatness2020

Pictures from Jennifer Stacey’s Peak Performance Pilates Manuals: Movement Perspectives™, Teaching the Reformer Repertoire, Roller Play, Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ and soon to be published Mat Repertoire, and Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ manual. https://peakperformancepilates.com/store/

Rocking, © 2015 J Stacey

March Matness: The Rocking. Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™  

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ (IPA™)  Teachers’ Course. May 1-3. Moraga, CA. Classic Pilates in, on and by the water

Raisa Punkki Rocking ©2007 J Stacey.

Pictures from Jennifer Stacey’s Peak Performance Pilates Manuals: Movement Perspectives™, Teaching the Reformer Repertoire, Roller Play, Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ and soon to be published Mat Repertoire, and Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ manual. https://peakperformancepilates.com/store/

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Mat skills performed on the Chair. Based on Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ deck work.

Mat Twist

Mat Side Kick Kneeling

Mat Side Leg Kick

Boomerang Ladies in Tuscany!

Pilates + Vacation™ Retreats.

Raisa Punkki Boomerang © 2007 J Stacey

Raisa Punkki Boomerang © 2007 J Stacey

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ (IPA™) Course. May 1- 3. Moraga, CA, 18 PMA CECs.  Classic Pilates in, on, by the water.

Pictures from Jennifer Stacey’s Peak Performance Pilates Manuals: Movement Perspectives™, Teaching the Reformer Repertoire, Roller Play, Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ and soon to be published Mat Repertoire, and Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ manual. https://peakperformancepilates.com/store/

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Mat Side Bend/Twist, copyright 2015 J Stacey

March Matness: The Side Bend / The Twist. Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ (IPA™)  

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ (IPA™)  course. Moraga, CA, May 1 – 3.  Classic Pilates in, on and by the water.

Pilates + Vacation™ in Tuscany, Italy. Thank you lovely ladies!

The body is in a long line.

#2 California version.

The Star

all photos copyright 2015 J. Stacey

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March Matness: The Side Kick Kneeling

 Align your body in a long line. Slide the foot along the wall (the bottom of) it is facing. (watch the elbow – inside of elbow faces body. RP needs more internal rotation of lower arm bones)

Pictures from Jennifer Stacey’s Peak Performance Pilates Manuals: Movement Perspectives™, Teaching the Reformer Repertoire, Roller Play, Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ and soon to be published Mat Repertoire, and Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ manual. https://peakperformancepilates.com/store/

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Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™

Leg Pull Back © 2015 J Stacey

March Matness: Leg Pull Back

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ 

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ course May 1-3, Moraga, CA, 18 PMA CECs.  Classic Pilates in, on, by the water.

Pilates + Vacation™ Tuscany fun.

The previous skill is Leg Pull Front:

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™

© 2007 J. Stacey

© 2007 J. Stacey

March Matness: Swimming.

Pretend there are baby birds on your shoulders. Do not squish the baby birds. Underswing, or lever your hand up (from the  Lat and LT, SA, TM and IS). Imagine  a small snowball under your belly. Keep your navel off of the snowball. Motion around the stillness. Reach your leg straight back – do not think up or bend it.  Stretch it back straight – it will animate the center (via the stretch reflex). Last image: There is a glass of fermented milk on your low back.  Do not move it.   Modifications: On a box, Cadillac, Pilates Mat with your hands and feet lower than your body. You can work on perfecting the technique, prior to challenging the ROM. Pull back on the Mat pole to depress, abduct and upwardly rotate the

© 2007 J. Stacey

scapulae – to start out in the proper position, and initiate with the proper muscles (and to save the baby birds!). To encourage the external rotators, you can perform with the thumb up.  Eventually perform it with the palm facing down. In these pictures the eyes and collar bones should be slightly more forwards, the belly up off of the mat and low back long. The eyes rotate around the ears, the ribs around the xiphoid. This skill is very difficult to do correctly.  It is interesting in the water – you immediately feel your Serape…  All photos © 2007 J. Stacey

© 2007 J. Stacey

© 2007 J. Stacey

March Matness: The Teaser

Lift the lower back ribs – anchor the top of psoas to the top of the back of the wall. Lifted “U” position. Head in line with gravity.  Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™.

© 2007 J Stacey

© 2007 J Stacey