Pilates On Tao?

[H2oDunc]

Hi, A friend told me about a post on this forum about Pilates on Tao. I did a search but the link appears broken. Any ideas ??? My friend mentioned about pilates being good for improving breathing which in diving is a good thing. Not diving so much lately Iv'e become an air pig ha ha ha,and I have never associated pilates with this. I just thought it was a fancy name for yoga

Cheers for the help

[wjmark]

Hi,

Yes the posting was removed as 'advertising' - sorry.

In the post I mentioned that I (owner of the Pilates-ChiangMai Studio), will be visiting Koh Tao for 6 weeks.

There is an ad on ThaiVisa classified.

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About Pilates and diving. Pilates develops a great control over breath that allows people to increase their lung capacity dramatically (and quickly).

When I started diving 5 years ago, I was able to apply all sorts of Pilates principles to my diving. The breath was easy - I immediately was a relatively low user of air - people ran out way before me. Stops you being an 'air-pig'!

Also, the Pilates, with its focus on 'core stability' helped me find my horizontal positioning very easily.

Pilates and Yoga are similar, but Pilates focuses on core and breath in a much different way from Yoga. Pilates was developed last century by a German man (Joe Pilates), who had studied Yoga and martial arts, and came up with his own 'rational', scientific, and 'modern' form of movement-oriented yoga. It was such a powerful method that the German army asked Joe Pilates to train the army (he refused and moved in 1926 to New York)!

Great stuff - dancers and top athletes have been doing Pilates for decades. Lately it has become much more mainstream...

Cheers, Mark

Edited March 11, 2009 by wjmark

[sbk]

And indeed using the forum to advertise is against the rules.

Marks ad can be found here in Classifieds

http://classifieds.thaivisa.com/hobbies/sp...-tao-19544.html