Practice, practice ,practice... As you may know, I always give "homework", as any good teacher does! I hope that my students "practice" their homework, and I know if they do... or if they don't... We only learn by practice, and as I say "Practice makes perfect, and perfect practice makes Pilates." Training is twofold - both the study and practice of the craft. For both the student and the teacher. As Martha Graham says in this amazing NPR radio essay from 1953: "Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065006
Now go do your homework! |
Melanie Johnson
Classical Pilates ~ Gyrotonic ~ Integrated Fitness
Thursday, April 7, 2011
thoughts on practice...
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