Stott Pilates is a branded version of the Pilates physical exercise method developed by Moira Merrithew (nÃÆ' Â © e Stott) and commercialized by Moira with her husband, Lindsay Merrithew, beginning in 1988. The most significant difference between Stott Pilates and Joseph Pilates's original method in the early 1900s was that Stott focused on a neutral spinal posture and produced a different sequence of exercises.
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History
Moira Stott has been a dancer with Bermuda Ballet, and a main dancer with City Ballet of Toronto and Atlantic Ballet Company, but had to retire when she was 24 years old because of a chronic leg injury from her broken leg as a child. He was advised to explore Pilates by the people at the Dancer Transition Resource Center in Toronto, and he went to New York City to study with Romana Kryzanowska, a disciple of Joseph Pilates. By then he had met Lindsey Merrithew, who worked in New York at the time. Merrithew has a business degree and has also been trained at Juilliard, and tried to develop an acting career at the time.
In his own training and Pilates work, Stott found that there was no emphasis on the formation and strengthening of neutral spinal postures, and also found that traditional Pilates did not follow the evolving sequence of exercises in the field of dance, and he developed a Pilates version that came to bring the name his girl as his brand.
They both moved back to Toronto in 1987, and in 1988 they opened Pilates studios in their apartments and worked with other jobs to make ends meet. Their business fought until Karen Kain, a major dancer with National Ballet of Canada began taking classes in their apartments; they managed to get the press to cover this up, with the help of Cain, and the business began to grow, allowing them to move into the studio. They also received a small grant from the National Research Council. As the company grows, Moira generally handles training and program development, and Lindsay deals with business and marketing issues.
Training becomes an essential element of the business model from the start, as they end up having to train more instructors for the studio, and they end up creating a certification program. For instructors or instructor instructors to retain the Stott Pilates certification, he/she must attend a number of minimum courses and workshops annually; so keep current with this method. Many Stott Pilates courses and workshops are part of the Continuing Education Credit (CEC) program, and many of them are also recognized by outside organizations, including the American Council on Exercise (ACE).
In the mid-1990s, the company began publishing videos and DVDs from most of its programs, and in several languages. Publishing DVDs raises awareness of the Stott Pilates method.
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References
External links
- Official Site
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