A Beginner/Intermediate level taster of Miranda’s popular Poling workshop. The short pole is a very useful and inexpensive aid to both teachers and clients which helps to encourage body symmetry, alignment, opposition of pushing and pulling and to find the coils of the human body that draw us into correct posture.
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With thanks to Laura Gold & Linda Davies
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Miranda comes from a dance background and trained to be a Pilates teacher in 1988. She began by teaching classes at Lewisham College and, latterly, students at Middlesex University as part of their Performing Arts BA. Miranda has led the Body Control Pilates teacher training team in the past and has written sev¬eral courses for Body Control Pilates. Alongside her private work, Miranda teaches weekly classes for teachers at the Body Control Pilates Centre in London. Her first book “The Complete Classic Pilates Method” was published by Pan Macmillan.
For more info on Miranda, please visit: www.bodycontrolpilates.com and www.basspilates.com
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Filming by MK Ceesay (www.zigzagzig.co.uk)
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