Aristocracy: A governing body or upper class usually made up of hereditary
nobility. Aristocratic-socially exclusive, snobbish
The history of Pilates is one of folklore (traditional customs, tales, or sayings
preserved orally among a people) and superstitions (a belief or practice resulting
from ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in magic or chance, or false conception
of causation).
Ideology A systematic body of concepts
Idea The central meaning or chief end of a particular action or situation The
idea of Contrology is the complete coordination of body mind and spirit (link
to anchor) "Geist Es isdt der Geist Der sich den Körperbaut" Schiller
Graphic Pyramid At the base, any body can mimic the movements and get some benefit.
Add the mind and you increase the benefit. Include the spirit and you get what
you're after--the complete cooridination of body mind and spirit. If you only
stay in your mind you will never experience pure Pilates.
Gravity
Gravity forces the issue of alignment.
Alignment is perceptable
Alignment is perceptable via tension
It takes two endpoints to trigger fluorescence.
Gravity
is a uniform medium. It works the same, is the same, consistently, uniformly,
throughout the universe.
Uniform usage
If uniform development is the result of Pilates (link to contrology) it is easy
to see that it must take uniform usage to get uniform development. Uniform usage
is "whole body", the body acting like one, singular, cellular, whole. Not like
a light bulb where the single filament (muscle) in engaged, but like a fluorescent
light where it's the whole tube or nothing.
Eccentric
Out from the center, the center being the pelvis, often called the "powerhouse".
The idea being control the core and move out from there.
Loading
As in weight bearing. The way you make any exercise harder is by adding more
weight, moving weight further away from center, less contact points.