The humanist
movement in its
turn gave him a confidence in human culture, a love of the classics and a connatural feeling for language, for beauty in the form of words, and for words in their natural setting of
everyday language that eventually flowered in the German Bible, a whole language coming both to birth and to a first apotheosis — a miracle of the sixteenth century to set beside the achievement of Shakespeare in England at the end of the century.
By comparing three examples, walking, stepping up, and reaching, and then
turning to three foundations of Pilates
movement, hip differentiation, shoulder stability, and stabilized rotation, you will learn how Pilates builds strength, flexibility, and balance into
everyday moves.