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The finest Beginner's Pilates mat DVD workout available from America's original Pilates expert. Learn the foundational principles and most essential exercises from a master! Sculpt and tone your new Pilates body. Bonus feature: Magic Circle workout!Jennifer's Beginner's Pilates Mat DVD redefines fitness. It features the most sophisticated approach to authentic, classical Pilates and mind-body fitness today. It is a perfect fusion of the western requirement of the body as "ultimate machine" with the deeply satisfying, restorative, enlightening, mind-body-spirit philosophy of yoga and the east. With this Beginner's Pilates DVD, you will come to understand why Pilates has attracted a devout and universal following because of its emphasis on overall conditioning, healing and balancing techniques. It is a thoughtful approach to working out. Challenging enough for the super-fit and gentle enough for the expectant mother, This Beginner's Pilates DVD asks the participant to focus and direct his/her energies towards specific goals: a uniformly developed and proportionate musculature, corrected body posture for the optimal functioning of vital organs, a combined power of body and mind, and elevation of the spirit. Pilates, the training secret for dancers and athletes for more than eight decades has been brought up to 21st Century standards: A strict adherence to requirements for anatomical correctness, specifically working with the spine's natural vertebral alignment, combined with the influences of classical ballet and yoga. Jennifer Kries teaches us a Pilates Method in her Beginner's Pilates DVD and all of her work, that highlights a greater emphasis on back strengthening techniques and yoga based exercises geared towards improving breathing and increasing overall upper body facility. Simply put, Jennifer's approach adapts the genius of Joseph Pilates to the practices of modern movement sciences and anatomy.