FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION
We’re built to move. That’s a fact. The problem is we don’t move enough–and the body begins to deteriorate.
Ask yourself: how many hours in a day do I sit?
Chances are you’re sitting more hours then you are moving around. What happens when you don’t move enough is that the muscles in your body start to think your sitting position is the one needing the most support. Muscles shorten and weaken. They’re not being used in the capacity they were originally created for. This is why, when you get up from your chair, your hand might automatically go to your lower back – letting out a little cry of anguish. Or your knees feel stiff once you stand erect. Or your shoulders get achy. This isn’t what we’re built for. We’re built to move – to run, actually. Our survival depends on our capacity to move — to be always moving. To move is to be human.
Pilates takes the body and rearranges the musculature back to it’s proper form. Okay – so that’s all wonderful, right? But if you do Pilates once, twice, three times a week and then you go back to your life of sitting – what good are you doing for yourself?
Take the information Pilates gives you, in your mind and in your body, and use it constantly. Become aware of how you move in space knowing and feeling the work of Pilates. This is why we do Pilates: the work gives you bio intelligent information that can be used moment to moment, all day, every day. It may even make you get up out of that chair and move!
