Peak Pilates Study Guide Level 1 (100% correct answers)

A concept that describes how each exercise is stabilized by the powerhouse and supported by critical connections correct answers anchoring stacking one vertebrae at a time, lifting bone by bone, or rolling down and releasing the vertebrae onto the mat one vertebrae at a time correct answers Articulate/Segment Rectangle formed by 2 imaginary lines running from shoulder to shoulder and from hip to hip and completed by 2 lines running from shoulder to hip correct answers Box simpler versions of an exercise "stepping stone" correct answers building blocks shape the spine and body assume during many Pilates exercises. Created by deep pull of the transverse abdominus wrapping around the spine and opening the spinal column in flexion correct answers C Curve the line running downward from the nose, navel, and pubic bone to the heels correct answers centerline a symptom or health condition that makes a particular exercise inadvisable or unsuitable for a student to perform correct answers contraindications connections that deepen the work in the powerhouse and improve execution. 1. Three Anchors 2. Rib to scapula/scapula to rib 3. heel and buttock connection correct answers Critical Connections What are the three critical connections? correct answers Three anchors, rib to scapula/scapula to rib, heel and buttock connection The action of elongating and creating space between the vertebrae correct answers Decompression A way to approach and cue rolling the spine segments: tailbone to top of pelvis, top of pelvis to base of sternum, bottom of ribs, and bottom of ribs to skull correct answers Dividing the Spine Into Thirds Image of buttons pressing from front to back and back to front through the body correct answers Five Buttons What are the 5 buttons correct answers 1. Pubic bone 2. Sacral Level 3. Navel 4. Xiphoid Process 5. Breastbone The Peak Pilates Principles include what two things? correct answers Pilates Principles and 5 parts of the mind The five Pilates Principles correct answers Concentration, Centering, Control, Breathing, Precision, Flowing Movement