Why don Pure Joe instructors demonstrate the exercises? Wouldn that be a faster way to teach us?
Some people are most comfortable learning by watching, then there are those who need a full explanation of each movement before they want to try it, and there are others that just want to move and as they go, they’ll figure it out. Ideally, we are teaching you to learn in all three of these ways. You must listen to your instructor to be able to take enough cues to do the exercise, and you can watch his/her cues to help with the energy and flow of the exercises. Also, each exercise looks different on different people, so if we were to demonstrate to you, you would be trying to mimic the shape of an exercise on someone other that you. This does very little as far as helping you to actually understand an exercise and it’s goals for your body. Because Pilates is a mind/body workout, every part of your 50 minute session is catered to helping you in achieving more depth in your use of your mind and body.
