Each instructor from the time of Joseph Pilates on has a different breathing technique. Some inhale at the moment of exertion, like Pilates himself recommended; while others prefer to exhale on exertion, like conventional fitness experts recommend. The dilemma remains unresolved and this is in part because some people do not wish to contradict Joseph Pilates even when he formulated his method last century. A good instructor should “agree to disagree” and let his clients breathe the way he or she prefers.
For example, some participants prefer to exhale on the exertion, while others prefer to do the contrary, that is, inhale on the exertion. A good instructor will never impose on his/her clients how to breathe. Rather, he/she should give freedom and let the clients breathe as they wish and can.
A good Tamara Di Tella instructor can recommend his clients to: a) keep breathing; b) not to hold their breath during the exertion; c) inhale as deeply as they can; d) try to exhale during the same amount of time.
The Tamara Di Tella Pilates and Tangolates techniques are very important, of course, and the excellent training they received is evident from the start, but there are other things that characterize the Tamara Di Tella instructors and distinguish them as the best instructors besides the technique itself. Let’ consider them one by one.
In the first place, and as obvious as it may sound, the Tamara Di Tella instructors are always there to receive clients or patients. They arrive to teach a class at least 10 minutes early to greet their clients. This gives new clients an opportunity to ask questions and instructors to introduce themselves. It is also very important to give the clients and the students the sense that “the instructors is there waiting for me”, pretty much like a host opens the door to receive his guest with a worm welcome and with his arms opened to receive his guest. A Tamara Di Tella Studio is like a home to its clients or students, and instructors always arrive 10 minutes early to greet the clients, and 10 minutes late to say good bye. (to be continued…)
My advice to Madonna? She should try my new method: Tangolates. It is a bit more challenging, but it tones and shapes muscles with suppleness and dexterity, plus the extra bonus of cardio provided by Tango!. I am absolutely convinced that my Tangolates apparatus and its choreographies (watch video here) will help Madonna train in a way she’s never done it before. Sting and Julio Bocca like it. Madonna will love it too!
I am a fan of Madonna and I will go to see her when she comes to Buenos Aires… just to look at her perfect body! Imagine how important this is for me that the title of the first chapter of my book is: “Madonna’s Evita”.
Madonna is famous for being very open-minded about new fitness methods and apparatuses not only because she is naturally curious but also because her profession demands it. Together with Sting and his ex-ballerina wife Trudy and Julio Bocca, Madonna perfect body is not easy to achieve without a solid philosophy of life behind.
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Besides Pilates, Madonna is a devotee of Ashtanga Yoga, a harder version of Yoga and a stronger one too. As of late, Madonna has also tried Gyrotonics, a weird looking apparatus and method designed by Romanian ballet dancer Juliu Horvath who specializes on training professional dancers.
Above everything else, Madonna is a dancer. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she was a straight-A average student at Rochester Adams High School (and a cheerleader as well), fact that won her a dance scholarship to attend Michigan University. As soon as she was able to, Madonna moved to New York to start a professional dance career. Dancing was the beginning of Madonna’s career, her first great achievement being her father’s permission to do so, for he was, from the word go, deadly opposed to his daughter’s artistic inclination. It was not until 1996 that Madonna would get the Golden Globe for her performance as Eva Peron in the film Evita. Who would guess that the girl from Bay City would one day come to Buenos Aires to play Eva Peron and dance Tango with Antonio Banderas!
One thing I can say about Madonna: she achieved everything on her own and in her own way. So, as I said, I will go to the show the first day and shall see for myself if she has that perfect body they say she has.
Usually, Academies of Dance are local or International Studios specializing in classical valet as well as various expressions of modern ballroom dancing, such as Waltz, Tango, salsa, and the like. Some of the academies or institutes of dance are internationally recognized. Among the most prestigious ones is the American Ballet Company of New York which has thought young professionals for generations and generations. Another very prestigious academy of dance and Ballet is the Royal Academy, which was established in London, in the 1920’s. Queen Elisabeth II is currently the royal patron of The Royal Academy of Dance of London.
The Academies of Ballet and Dance were initially formed with the objectives to improve the standard of classical ballet. A leading dance education and training institution, the Royal Academy of Dance today incorporates multidimensional uncrossed discipline, activities that go beyond classical ballet.. There are currently over 1.000 students in full time or part time teacher training programs with the Royal Academy of Dance and each year, the examinations syllabus is thought to more than a quarter of a million students worldwide.
Today, the Academy has incorporated new disciplines of movement such as contemporary and classical Greek dance, traditional foot dancers, normally from an European country, uses movement and music which has been adapted for the Theater, the syllabus also uses dances based on Hungarian, Russian, and Polish foot Dance. The Royal Academy of Dance have a full range of techniques necessary for each of the dance arts, not only that, today the Royal Academy of London excels in the offering of courses for those who wish to achieve grace, poise, posture improvement, physical fitness, confidence or just pleasure.
Practicing Pilates with a partner can help students develop more strength, coordination and stretching. Partner Pilates, the new method of Tamara Di Tella also called Tangolates or Tango Pilates is an innovative twist on classic Pilates’ postures and routines. Adding coordinated movements into your regular Pilates gets your students an invigorating challenge and a new thing to do, not to fall into monotonous classes. Some people say that the Tamara Di Tella partner Pilates involves the workout of one and resistance of the other. This is not the case at all. Both partners engaged in complementary work and effort.
Partner postures and movements are not variations on existing postures and movements, but rather completely different ones with different names, different purposes and different symbolism. Students don’t expect the same movements and are happy to explore new poses and routines. The Tamara Di Tella Partner work (Tangolates) is for everyone.
Tango Pilates: Tips and modifications
1. The taller partner may need a wider balance could still keep good alignment and balance.
2. Student could engage the abdominals strongly
BENEFITS
1. The Tamara Di Tella Partner Pilates (Tango Pilates), builds tremendous strength in the quadriceps and core muscles.
2. Students learn to use and maintain good posture
3. Provides more coordination and balance
SYMBOLISM
Either you or your partner doesn’t touch each other, the symbolism of working as a team is very strong. Either you’re still connected but you can feel your partner strength and movement perfectly synchronized with your movement. Your partner should coordinate his movements to yours at all times, idem though you’re over three feet apart.
The Tamara Di Tella Partner Routines (Tango Pilates) and exercises involve both partners in different areas, but still it works out a mutually beneficial, In this type of partner work people do not always have to be doing the exact same thing. Yet, they both benefit tremendously
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BEYOND PILATES
The Tamara Di Tella Method consists of routines of Tango that condition the entire body, provides flowing movement, concentration, and centering. With the Tamara Di Tella Methodyou can enjoy the music while you stand tall and elegant like a Tango dancer or ballerina. As an extra bonus you get flexibility and muscle tone, plus lengthening of the body and alignment of the spine. The music makes a big difference because it adds cardio to classic Pilates and because it enhances flowing movement, which is a key factor in traditional Pilates.
For Institutes of Dance, Ballet or Tango; also for Pilates Studios and for Dance classes in general, the T-DITELLA Tangolates Apparatus is ideal to teach as well as to learn. It is considered an excellent tool involves the learning and teaching process of Tango and Pilates.
Tamara Di Tella innovative Pilates and Tango Pilates Method can be summarized in one sentence: “It Takes Two to Tangolates!”
Patients with motor disorder do not necessarily los their capacity to move but, rather, to “imagine” the movement. This is associated to a short edge of dopamine, a hormone to use in the vassal ganglia located in the brain. This affects their movement.
“With our partner routines”, explains Tamara Di Tella, “Patients may compensate their “lack of imagination” by “copying” their instructors’ movements, making move much easier for them.” In partner exercises, the instructor becomes a “mirror” to assist the patient move more easily. The patient stands facing the instructor and imitates his movement. This makes it much easier for the patient to get started. Remember to get started is the most difficult thing for this patients. “Once they get started, everything is much easier”, explains Tamara Di Tella.
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ITS BASIC PRINCIPLES
According to Jason Thomas, A Pilates Master Teacher from Arkansas, USA; “The Tamara Di Tella Method (Tangolates – Tango Pilates)is one of the few truly inspired innovations to the Pilates Method”. Jason believes that the Tamara Di Tella Method, Tangolates, succeeds in combining coordination and core stability, essential to Pilates with the cardio element inherent in Tango music.
The Tamara Di Tella Method does introduce new concepts, however among which are: aerobics, partner work, music and assisted stretching. Many students who have come to the Tamara Di Tella Schoolto learn the classical Pilatesexercises and routines have tried the Tango Pilates movements and fell in love with its versatility, its flowing elegant movements and posture and its superb music, as well as the Cardio element it contributes.
Add cardio to your Pilates business the easiest and best possible manner: trough highly core concentrate, coordinated, balanced, posture minding Tango. We all know Pilates is an excellent regimen of mind and body exercises. And we all know that mind-body routines fitness is a good thing for you. It’s time now to realize that life goes on and that we all have a commitment to improve, to innovate, to update. Try our Tamara Di Tella Method (Tangolates or Tango Pilates) and discover the power of music and the power of you!
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THE TAMARA DI TELLA METHOD:
HISTORY AND ORIGINS
At the Tamara School of Training, we assessed the positive results of partner exercises and patients who came voluntarily to try them. The first Test of Efficacy conducted at the Tamara Di Tella’s Pilates Room was presented at the 10th Convention of Intern Medicine held in 2005 at the Sheraton Hotel of Buenos Aires. Patients claimed that the Tamara Di Tella Method helped them move more flowingly. It was the patients’ evaluations which led to the conclusion that Pilates partner routines helped patients improve their capacity to move freely and without so much effort.
Tamara Di Tella has written that: “Tango has strong beat and focused and concentrated and if the moves are coordinated with a partner is a stimulus unmatched by any other, for it also creates bond and share rewards”
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HISTORY AND ORIGINS
Pilates’ routines and movements are held at the Tamara Di Tella Pilates Room in the Hospital of the School of Medicine of the University of Buenos Aires. To assist patients perform the exercises, each patient faced a monitor who was performing the exercise, and so doing there formed partner routines. In addition, a rhythmical tune – Tango – was added, so as to help patients move. Step by step, this new regimen formulated for two people (an instructor and a patient), and accompanied by music, became a new method, one which was more versatile and innovative, one and contributed an aerobic element. It motivated patients to move to the tune of music with the Pilates’ instructors. Tango Pilates or Tangolates was thus born.
Today, the Tamara Di Tella Method has become a popular technique in dance Academies, Institutes of Dance or Tango. It has also being adopted by Pilate’s instructors and Studios. It is excellent for teachers because it helps them teach dance classes in general and Pilates in particular. With the T-DITELLA™ APPARATTUS monitors teach students to perform their first steps.
