Stability in the Foundational Mat

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Stability in the Foundational Mat

Stability in the Foundational Mat

Kathi Ross Nash Observe & Learn | Mini Workshops (<60 min)

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In this mini-workshop, Kathi Ross Nash explores the most basic element in Pilates: Stability. Using the mat exercises, Kathi demonstrates how each exercise builds stability in the body and then progressively challenges the body in a different way as you move through the method. Check out the element that follows Stability in Kathi's next video in this series: Articulation in the Foundational Method. To purchase a mat like the ones used in this video, visit Gratz Pilates, or you can build your own: How to Make Your Own Pilates High Mat. For info on training with Kathi visit: KathiRossNash.com.  

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14 Comments

  1. Stetsonjm 7 months ago

    Is the mat manual available for purchase?

  2. jeanwilcox 3 years ago

    Thank you Kathy I loved it, I love how you make it all sound so simple.

  3. Viviangfau 4 years ago

    Kathi come to Mexico, you have many fans here!

  4. Luz Alejandra Lovern
    Luz Alejandra Lovern 5 years ago

    Thanks Kathi, I love the joyful way that you are teaching. Precise information clear and clean. Perfect! I have just one complain why those shoes? Thanks Luz

    • Kathi Ross Nash Author
      Kathi Ross Nash 5 years ago

      Romana always used a heel when she taught and changed to height during the day. Try it !!! It keeps your bottom working all day!

    • Kathi Ross Nash Author
      Kathi Ross Nash 3 years ago

      My teacher always had a heel- and if you look Clara did as well- All old ballet teacher teaching shoes have heels as well. I like them as they keep my legs, feet and bottom active all day instead of sinking back into a tennis shoe.

  5. Joelleschildkraut 5 years ago

    Thank you Kathi ! Loved it ! And your beautiful flowers ! 🙂 XX

  6. Kathi Ross Nash Author
    Kathi Ross Nash 5 years ago

    I am so excited that you understand my thought process on the method. I am actually working on a manual that breaks the mat down in such a way – Varistions included as well as threads and building blocks. It is four years in the making… Hopefully by 2016 it will be done
    Thank you thank you thank you

    • joesmat 5 years ago

      Thank you very much for your kind and generous words of encouragement.
      The MAT MANUAL will be an immediate purchase upon publication.

  7. joesmat 5 years ago

    Learning the road map that runs through all the Mat Exercises is “key” to understanding the entire Methodology, is it not?
    Turning to the original Single Leg Circle as in Return to Life – this exercise becomes a more complex interpretation of the Red Thread Stability I always feel. Without having the wooden dowels, if you place your arms in the same position, and then work the exercise, it really does challenge ones ability to stabilize properly!
    Finally, the last exercise – PUSH UP – Not seen enough in mat videos! Again, without Apparatus, we need to use natures provision of the bodyweight and gravity to build strength and thereby true stability.
    Seems to me the thread that runs the Mat sequence road map would be the very Foundation of Mr Pilates Methodology!
    There must be lots more to come forth on this piece of work. Very clever material.
    Thank you for sharing this understanding.

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