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Book Annotation: Currently being touted as "the new yoga", this guide gives ten unique 15-minute Pilates sessions to stretch muscles, improve posture and lead to greater body awareness. 70 photos.

Publisher Marketing: Pilates is one of the hottest exercises today -- often being hailed as "the new Yoga". Once used by dancers and models, this technique makes you longer and leaner using muscle stretches and low-impact movement, and greatly improves posture. This book will give ten unique fifteen-minute Pilates sessions to get you through your day. It focuses on different ways to use and develop Pilates, leading to increased body awareness, greater flexibility and stamina, and less stress. Because it works on fifteen-minute routines it is easy to fit into a busy schedule.

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Contributor Bio: Lesley Ackland:
Ackland founded the Pilates-based Body Maintenance Studio in London's Covent Garden over 10 years ago, and for five years she was Remedial Exercise Consultant to the Birmingham Royal Ballet.