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Pilates key principles: Flow

 This is the point where we take everything we have learned over the past 5 months and combine it together.  Breath: The fuel for your power house  Pilates key principles: Breathing Concentration: Connecting your mind and your body  Pilates key principles: Concentration Centre: Your core, connecting to it and letting it power your movement  Pilates key principles: Centre Control: Using the exact alignment, avoiding excess tension, isolating muscles  and  Pilates key principles: Control Precision: The exact way the action is executed.  Pilates key principles: Precision We then add Flow so that the movement can flow smoothly and gracefully.  Combining all these essential elements into my Pilates practice is something that I am still working on.  I'm not sure I will ever hit the perfection target.  It is really important that everyone knows that their best is good enough.  However Pilates is bigger than turning up and waving...