Fred’s Vectors – by Brett Miller

COME AND CHECK OUT FRED’S VECTORS – THE GALLERY

Surprise! Surprise! Occasionally I like to waste some time browsing on Facebook. I can guess that like many of you, in my feed (that is an ugly word, feed, but indeed, that is the word that is used….) appear many Pilates related posts. One day last spring, the wasting of my time was interrupted with something very worthwhile….for there before me like this pic just below. I had no idea of how it related to Pilates, except for the title of the piece ‘Side Bend’. However, the visceral reaction within was that I liked what I saw.

I recognized work that sparkled with a radiant intelligence and skill.

Because I was impressed, I was drawn to investigate further. To my delight, I found a full series of drawings just like these – in fact representing every exercise found in Joe Pilates’ ‘Return to Life’.

And to further my pleasure, I found that the creator of these works was my fellow Stockholm Pilates colleague, Fredrik Prag. Fred is a bit of a Pilates hermit, so I do not see him often, but I like him and know that he is fully dedicated to the Pilates technique, and so called him up and asked if we could meet to talk about his latest of many ventures, to which he agreed.

Of course, I asked Fredrik about the original idea behind this brilliant series.

“Some years ago I attended a four-day introduction seminar on chiropractic techniques, just out of interest. There they introduced a concept of the natural placement of bones, that each has its specific place depending on the individual, and that optimal functioning of the body is dependent on the integrity of this placement. Here I also was introduced to vectors…the direction of force needed when applying chiropractic manipulation.”

(Example below of the material Fred received at the seminar….with vectors)

“The concept fascinated me, and ‘vectors’ stayed with me…. I loved the word. I was intuitively informed by this small exposure to chiropractic concepts. Over time, while teaching, a growing sense of the vectors of force in the vertebrae occurred in me.

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cOME AND CHECK OUT FRED’S VECTORS – THE GALLERY