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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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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

Side Leg Kick, ©2015 J Stacey

March Matness: Side Leg Kick. 

Immersion™ Pilates Aquatics™ (IPA™)  Teachers’ Course. Moraga, CA, May 1-3

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RP Side Leg Kick ©2010 J Stacey

When performing the Side Leg Kick reach the leg long along the wall (the wall the bottom of the foot is facing). Freedom of the leg around a silent hip. Reach through the crown of the head.  Please make sure your head is in line with the spine.  Either the waist is up, or the head is down on a head pad, pillow or arm.

QR Side Leg Kick©2015 J Stacey

During these times it is a good idea to perform the One Hundred Breathing daily. Try 3 sets of breaths with 5 count inhale, 5 count exhale. 3 sets with 5 count inhale, 10 count exhale. 3 sets of 10 count inhale, 10 count exhale.  It brings new air in, old air out. Like house cleaning for your lungs!  It keeps your lungs pliable.  You can also use it as an indicator to check how you feel during it over the months. How does it feel today? how does feel next week? If it gets significantly harder, then maybe you can make a call to your health professional.  You can perform the One Hundred breathing, sitting or standing or anywhere.

RP Scissors, © 2007 J. Stacey

March Matness: The Scissors

Slide your right leg along the ceiling away from your nose. Reach your left leg up to the ceiling.

Chest away from your chin. Try to keep the scapulae on the ground.

You can practice on The Spine Corrector, Arc or Foam Roller.

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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