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Pilates’s training is not merely a collection of exercises, but is based on his philosophical ideas and vision of health and wellbeing. In his books, Your Health (1934) and Return to Life Through Contrology – The Basic Fundamentals of a Natural Physical Education (1945), Pilates outlines the context and theoretical foundation of his method (Gallagher and Kryzanowska 2000). In their handbook (PMA Pilates Study Guide 2005, p 18), the Pilates Method Alliance summarized three fundamental principles of the Pilates philosophy, based on these texts.
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Geweniger, V., Bohlander, A. (2014). The Pilates Concept. In: Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38114-0_3
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