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 your limbs around by copying the person next to you.