The New York Pilates Studio

OK all you dilly dallier's it's time! Joe's Archival Greek Statue Standing Mat class starts today. Register here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws... A recording will be available for 7 days if you need this class and can't fit it in your daily schedule Joe makes the statue posses look easy well when it comes to coordination, sequencing, and flow this is a more advanced standing mat than the jumping and in place twisting and weight shifting your used to (from my Tuesday Joe's Standing Archival Mat class) imagine doing the snake twist without the help of the apparatus well it's not that hard physically but mentally Wow. Are you up for the challenge? Are you ready to take the leap of faith and learn a new addition to your mat vocabulary and skills? If so see you at 1:00 PM EST today and every Thursday for the next 10 weeks.

Save the Date! 3-Loop Airplane Board Class Thursday January 28, 2021 5-6pm EST $40... Join Sean Gallagher & Elaine Ewing for this one-time class on how to effectively use the 3-Loop airplane board with your students. Originally developed by Sean Gallagher, the 3 Loop Airplane Board is a hybrid of two of Joe’s original 4 airplane boards- the single loop and the double loop airplane boards. This model was created as an easier way to practice the archival exercises along with the standard Airplane exercises without having to switch boards in between. This class will focus on using the 3 Loop Airplane Board for the archival exercise originally presented on Pilatesology by Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing- The Standing Bicycle. When is the proper time to introduce this exercise and what exercises must lead up to it before it is introduced? What is the purpose behind this exercise, who is it for, and how do we teach it safely and effectively? This class is a must for teachers who would like to better understand the purpose and use of this newly introduced auxiliary apparatus in order to teach safely and with confidence. Details: A 3-loop airplane board is required to register for this class. If you do not have a 3 loop board and would like one in order to join our class, please email [email protected] for info on how to order our 3-loop airplane board conversion kit, so that you can turn your 2-loop airplane board into a 3-loop board. If you do not have this airplane board before the date of class, you may request a recording of class after you get your board. Additional apparatus will be used during this class, such as the reformer, the mat, and the Wunda Chair or Electric Chair. Each registrant will be contacted before class to confirm possession of a 3 loop airplane board. Questions? DM me! Register with the Rhinebeck Pilates app or sign up online: rhinebeckpilates.com

30 years ago this month I graduated from my Feldenkrais practitioner teacher training program with Anat Baniel. (Thanks John Link for the idea of posting the ce...rtificate) Feldenkrais work is one of the foundational systems I use in my physical therapy practice to help dancer, actor, singers return from injury and dysfunction. I usually start with modified lessons or FI and then as function returns along with healing I often then progress them into pilates work to help them get stronger with Contrology. They both focus on full body movement and integration through the nervous system and patterning and re-patterning movement in a very developmentally based way. Time flies when you're having fun. It was during this training that I was first exposed to foam rollers. we used them to support the knees and ankles and some standing balance work. I started using them for self massage and used them at my office and pilates studio and on Broadway with the shows I covered that way developing a whole unique program and exercises to use them and the rest is history

One day left to register for Joe's Archival Greek Statue Mat Class. Join me for a 1/2 hour of learning Balance, Control, Coordination Strengthening Joe's way.... (well one of them that hasn't been taught before) This is one of many series from the archives that have been lost over time. The JH Pilates Source is dedicated to bringing studio teachers Joe's original work to help them provide their clients with a broader perspective and vocabulary or exercises. These standing exercises are in some ways easier than some of the other standing work Joe taught and at the same time harder depending on your imbalances. This 10 week series will not only help you improve your balance but will help you start to find your inner statue connecting the skeleton/muscles/nervous system to flow and concentrate a full body gestalt in look and function. You need to tighten a muscle to relax a muscle Thursdays 1:00PM EST January 14 thru March 18 Single class $25 10 class Series $200 Register here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws A recording will be available for 7 days if you can not make the live class.

The Study of Joe’s Original NYC Studio: Part 2 Thursday 5pm EST Recording available: if you would like the recording just register for the class as if you were going to attend live and DM me to ask for the recording. Recording available for one week after the class takes place.... This is Part 2 of 3. If you would like to see the recording from Part 1, please DM me for instructions. Part 3 will take place on Dec 17. This presentation can be taken as single sessions or all 3. Join The Pilates Source for a presentation of rare, archival photos from Joe’s studio in the 1950s. This week’s presentation will focus on Joe teaching a client on the Wunda Chair, High Chair, and mat, as well as Clara teaching the mat. Discussion will take place throughout the presentation, as well as questions and answers with attenedees. These photos have never before been published or presented. Register with the Rhinebeck Pilates app or sign up online: rhinebeckpilates.com

Instagram Live Wednesday Reading 5pm EST @seangallagher3262 ... Special Edition! Join us for a special edition of our Wednesday Readings for Joe Pilates birthday: a reading and discussion of rare articles about Joseph Pilates from the 1930s-1960s.

Do you have clients that have trouble going to the floor or getting up from the floor? Have less balance control than they would like? Are you looking for Osteo...penia or Osteoporosis closed chain weight bearing exercises to help your elderly clients (or yourself?) Looking for exercises that you can add to your regular mat class that Joe did that can help with all of the above issues? Join me for a 10 week series that will teach you Joes statue poses exercises and transitions that have never been taught before. Only 2 days left to register for this important addition to the Pilates lineage of lost exercise brought to by The JH Pilates Source Register here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws a recording will be available for 7 days if you are not able to attend at the specific time. every Thursdays at 1:00PM EST for 10 weeks January 14 - March 18

Only one day left to sign up for my Joe's Archival Standing Mat Starts tomorrow at 12:30PM EST You can register here: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/class...ic/ws A recording is available. 2021 is the year to bring your pilates work back into focus. This archival standing mat class is hour of Joe’s standing mat exercises with an added variation from one of his archival pictures with focus on Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Alignment using weight placement patterning to facilitate sensory alignment and weight placement for standing on one or two extremities as required in Joe’s standing exercises. This is a great warm up for any mat class or apparatus workout. Come and sweat a little as you learn a lot. This class will be half hour zoom class, it also be available as a recording if you are unable to attend the class at the set time. The recording will be available for 7 days after the live class. The cost of a single class is $25 and a class pact of 10 is $200.

Happy birthday to Joe Pilates! All week long the we at The Pilates Source have been sharing rare photos with you to celebrate Joe’s birthday! Thank you to Sean Gallagher for creating this video finale to celebrate Joe and his life’s work!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOE PILATES! JOIN THE JH PILATES SOURCE IN CELEBRATING JOE"S BIRTHDAY AS WE SHARE SHORT VIDEO OF THE RICH ARCHIVAL HISTORICAL PICTURES OVER THE ...PAST WEEK THANK YOU FOR: The fun, knowledge, livelihood, passion, awareness, good feelings, sweat, tears, drama, happiness, camaraderie and lifestyle. What would all our lives be like if your work and legacy were in it? Sharing is welcome with credit to Sean Gallagher, Elaine Ewing, and JH Pilates Source See more

Kinesiophobia, What is it? What can you do to avoid it? How can we live without it?... My Safe Side Bending Progressions class we will work on both Joe's and Romana's Progressional exercises for safe and healthy movement of the spine in lateral flexion in both stability and mobility. We will start with the foundational work needed and progress into working the spine to allow for progressive bone/disk/ligament and muscle stimulation in safe and functional progressions in the Mat, Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair, And Ladder/Spine Corrector Barrels. This is not a lecture but a practical exercise class with a short warm up. Each class will start with a side bending exercise that is part of my Neuro-Musculo-Skeletal Alignment exercises which is from my pre pilates program that facilitates an organic weight placement patterning that will enhance your somatic-sensory alignment and weight deployment for this progression. Only 1 day left to register: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws This class will be a half hour zoom class, it will also be available as a recording if you are unable to attend the class at the set time. The recording will be available for 7 days after the live class. The cost of a single class is $25 and a class pack of 10 is $200.

See below for more info about this particular picture... The Study of Joe’s Original NYC Studio With Sean Gallagher & Elaine Ewing... 3 Weeks: December 3-17, 2020 Thursdays 5-6pm EST Take one class: $50/class; Take all three classes: $150/ 3 classes Did you miss the first presentation from last week? DM me to sign up and to receive the recording. Recording available: This class is available as a recording for 1 week. If you’re not able to join in person, you may request the recording. To get the recording, first register for the class, then email [email protected] to request the recording. No recording extensions available. This week’s presentation: Part 2 The photo shown here is one from a series that we’ll study and review this week, depicting Joe teaching on the Wunda Chair, High Chair, and mat, as well as Clara teaching on the mat. Be prepared to be blown away! Class description: Using a multitude of never-before published archival photos from Joe’s original NYC studio in the 1950’s, both in black and white and color, we will study and discuss the following: -The equipment: what it was like, differences and similarities compared to what we use today, and its unique aspects and designs. -The lessons: we will observe both Joe and Clara teaching private lessons within the studio, and discuss the order they’re teaching, the apparatus they choose, their hands-on cuing, and demonstrations that they give the clients during the lesson. -The studio: A study of the studio layout, the equipment set up, the exercise areas, the common areas, as well as never-before-seen photos of inside the changing room. -The Exercises: Surprises are likely! What exercises were the same, and which exercises were different? We’ll discuss possible reasons for any differences and similarities we observe. Register with the Rhinebeck Pilates app or sign up online: rhinebeckpilates.com

Super excited for this archival pilates presentation! The Study of Joe’s Original Studio: Part 4 Observing a Session with Joe... With Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing 1 hr $50 This class includes never-before-presented or published archival images as well as images from Parts 1-3 of this class series. We will start by observing a selection of images from a session that took place in the 1950’s in Joe’s original NYC studio in which the client uses the reformer, mat, spine corrector, cadillac, guillotine, a ped-o-pul. What imbalances do we notice in the client across the systems and how does Joe address them? What exercises does he give, her? What tactic cues does he use, and what effect do his cues have on the imbalances? In addition to observations from the session, we will discuss the possible explanations for the imbalances and their causes. In addition to the session in Joe’s studio, this class includes a special series of photos from a 1950s voice lesson the client takes with William Herman, the famous voice teacher who was known for his unique ways of incorporating props and apparatus into voice lessons, including pilates apparatus. These photos will show not only Herman’s use of apparatus during the lesson but also continue the observation of the client’s imbalances as they reappear. Additional research conducted about Herman’s style of voice training and how and why he uses the apparatus in the ways that he does will be provided. This is Part 4 of a series. If you would like recordings of Parts 1-3, please email [email protected]. This class is available live or as a recording for 7 days. To receive the recording, register for the class and then email the studio to request the recording. For information on how the presentation will take place in zoom, please read the class description in Mindbody thoroughly. To register: https://clients.mindbodyonline.com/classic/ws

Contrology = The Study of Control With Sean Gallagher & Elaine Ewing Mondays at 5pm, EDT Featured exercise: Swimming... This class will be recorded and available for one week after each class. In order to access recordings you must register before the class starts. Joe's Mat, Elaines Teaching, Sean's Cue's The goal for this class is to help teachers understand ways to teach and practice the original mat work without compromising the integrity of the method. Co-taught by Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing: Elaine will teach all 34 exercises of Joe's Return to Life mat class in its entirety, followed by Sean teaching unique cues that support and reinforce the exercises. Throughout the mat class with Elaine, Joe’s direct cues will be used for every exercise to instill a solid practice in the ways Joe originally intended for Contrology. During Sean’s portion of class, teachers will learn how to instruct the weekly featured exercise in a way that allows clients to execute it and progress as Joe intended with little modification. These safe and bio-mechanically accurate cues focus on positional strengthening and placement. Register with the Rhinebeck Pilates app or sign up online: rhinebeckpilates.com