Since 1989, BASI founder Rael Isacowitz has been training Pilates teachers in his own image: passionate, dedicated, highly skilled and deeply committed to the Pilates ethos of ensuring happiness through physical fitness. Described by Kathy Grant, one of the two original Pilates teachers, as “the male that Mr. Pilates wished for to continue his work," Rael has been influential in establishing Pilates studies as an academic discipline.
Pilates Interactive is part and parcel of the BASI Pilates curriculum of studies. Its enormous video archive and sophisticated search and display tools are an indispensable resource for trainee teachers, independent instructors and studio personnel.
With Pilates Interactive, any Pilates professional can quickly learn, or brush up on, an exercise, understand how to combine it with other exercises in a routine and see how Rael teaches the exercise, complete with verbal and tactile cues.
Pilates Interactive is based on the widely-respected BASI Pilates method and repertoire. Each exercise in Pilates Interactive is categorized according to the BASI Block System™, a specialized technique for classifying and combining the hundreds of exercises in the Pilates repertoire. The Block System ensures the progressive structuring of classes within a flexible framework, creating sessions that are balanced, well-rounded and which address all planes of movement and multiple muscle groups.
It also includes over 80 exercises on the Avalon System™, the most significant advance in apparatus design since the days of Joseph Pilates. No other study program teaches work on the Avalon, a system which adds resistance to apparatus that did not have it previously, expands the resistance mechanisms of other pieces and, for the first time, creates a universal standard for spring settings.
