The Pilates Path to Health: Body, Mind and Spirit
Life today is tempered by a growing sense of the overwhelming challenges we face in national and global affairs. This book is intended to expand internal awareness to better face those challenges—to build on what you know, to illuminate the reason that drives your practice, to help deepen what may be elusive or incomplete in your understanding of a coordinated, uniquely balanced trinity of body, mind, and spirit and the universal message that it holds. It is intended to help support individuals practicing the Pilates method, to support that consciousness Joseph Pilates referred to so many decades ago, to accomplish our desires from a position of renewed life!
~Gary Calderone, Author
“Joseph Pilates’ life was a dramatic reflection of his vision; and now, through this timely and beautifully crafted book, Gary Calderone has given us a window through which we, too, can reflect on an even grander path with our Pilates practice.
~Wendy LeBlanc-Arbuckle. Foreword Author
The Pilates Path to Health: Body, Mind, and Spirit "Winner of: 2012 Readers' Choice Awards for Best Book About Pilates" is in demand by the public!
This book was written with you and the client in mind, to bridge the gap between the how and why we do Pilates. Your client keeps coming back to re-discover why their life is transforming through Pilates.
There is a new audience of readers discovering a lifestyle that supports the body, mind, and spirit activities that your studio provides.
Readers' Choice Award
Winner! of the 2012 About.com Readers' Choice Awards for "Best Book About the Pilates Method".
Best Book About Pilates: Pilates Path to Health by Gary Calderone
On the Pilates Path to Health
-- an Interview with Gary Calderone by Marguerite Ogle
About the Book
This book bridges the gap between how we do Pilates and why we do Pilates. This is a why book––a book that redefines Pilates as more than exercise, illuminates distinctions that emerge as individuals move toward transformation through their practice of Pilates, and journeys the reader through possibilities of how that may impact the world.
~Brent D.Anderson, PT, PhD, OCS, President of Polestar Pilates, says…” This ‘must read’ is a significant addition to the limited library of the work enjoyed by millions around the globe”.
This book broadens the core writings of Joseph H. Pilates (1883-1967) into the vernacular of the 21st century where health is redefined as self-healing – where we will experience greater insight into the ‘unspoken benefits’ one gains in the practice of Pilates. We will also recognize a renewed relationship with self and with gravity, and be able to distinguish a shift in our patterns of thinking and moving, toward something better.
~Rachel Taylor Segel with Amy Taylor Alpers Co-founder and Co-owner, The Pilates Center Boulder, Colorado, says…” As Gary describes so richly, the power of Pilates is so profound it can motivate them to change the deepest patterns of their lives and then touch those around them newly”.
It is my understanding and my intention to suggest in this book that Joseph Pilates clearly foresaw how the widespread embrace of his work could and would change human thinking and living, to the betterment of all humankind. I am a firm believer in the pull of the future. The surge in the popularity of Pilates, its steady growth around the world, and its future I see as part of a great rethinking—an evolution in self-awareness and knowledge.
~Clare Dunphy, Peak Pilates Master Trainer, Director of Progressive Body Works,Inc., says… “He illuminates the truth about how choices for our inner health are mirrored in the manifestation of our outer experience, thereby strengthening global consciousness.Truly inspiring!”
Read the Book Reviews
Review by Marguerite Ogle, About.com Guide READ the review
The Pilates Path to Health; Body, Mind, and Spirit a Book by Gary Calderone
Dated July 20, 2011
Review by Reiner Grootenhuis , pilates-contrology-forum.com READ the review
Book Review "The Pilates Path To Health - Body, Mind, and Spirit" - Gary Calderone
Dated September 8, 2011