Pilates, Flow, and Healing: A Philosophical and Trauma-Informed Guide to Living the Method
Anna Westin, PhD · Holly Murray
Jan 2027 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Eleanor Caudill
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A groundbreaking reimagining of Classical Pilates as a pathway for trauma recovery and embodied integration—cultivate breath, touch, flow, and relational awareness for mind-body healing
Pilates, Flow, and Healing offers a rigorous, embodied, and trauma-informed reframe of one of today’s most popular wellness methods. Drawing from thinkers like Merleau-Ponty, somatics pioneers like Peter Levine, and up-to-date neurobiological research, this book offers a profound path toward an embodied “Return to Life.”
Written by academic-practitioner Anna Westin and Master Trainer Holly Murray, this pilates manual is the first to bridge the gap between the Classical Pilates Method, contemporary trauma theory, and somatics—and to show how Pilates helps trauma survivors heal through structured, developmental movement.
Written for teachers, trainers, somatic therapists, trauma healers, and serious students of Pilates, this book is structured in three parts and explores:
This book offers serious readers a deeply embodied approach to the Method that restores Pilates from pop-culture misconceptions to its original purpose: an effective path back to healing, recovery, and the powerhouse of the self.
Pilates, Flow, and Healing offers a rigorous, embodied, and trauma-informed reframe of one of today’s most popular wellness methods. Drawing from thinkers like Merleau-Ponty, somatics pioneers like Peter Levine, and up-to-date neurobiological research, this book offers a profound path toward an embodied “Return to Life.”
Written by academic-practitioner Anna Westin and Master Trainer Holly Murray, this pilates manual is the first to bridge the gap between the Classical Pilates Method, contemporary trauma theory, and somatics—and to show how Pilates helps trauma survivors heal through structured, developmental movement.
Written for teachers, trainers, somatic therapists, trauma healers, and serious students of Pilates, this book is structured in three parts and explores:
- The art of touch: How to use containing touch, guiding and supporting touch, and invitational touch to cultivate somatic safety and relational repair in clients
- How the Method regulates the nervous system: Cueing conscious, structured movement to ground the body and restore the nervous system to its natural rhythms
- Flow and neurobiology: How the “sixth principle” of flow integrates body and mind
- Practical aspects of Pilates for trauma survivors: How the Method’s approaches to rhythmic breathing, spinal articulation, two-way stretching, and embodied biofeedback facilitate safety, agency, and autonomic regulation
This book offers serious readers a deeply embodied approach to the Method that restores Pilates from pop-culture misconceptions to its original purpose: an effective path back to healing, recovery, and the powerhouse of the self.
A groundbreaking reimagining of Classical Pilates as a pathway for trauma recovery and embodied integration—cultivate breath, touch, flow, and relational awareness for mind-body healing
Pilates, Flow, and Healing offers a rigorous, embodied, and trauma-informed reframe of one of today’s most pop...
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Holly Murray is a master Pilates trainer and CEO of Pi Studio Ltd., a recognized space for healing through embodied experience. Trained directly under the legendary Romana Kryzanowska, Holly has spent over 30 years building an international career in Classical Pilates, culminating in a globally recognized Teacher Training Program. She integrates Flow Training through the Flow Genome Project and has recently completed a year's training with Gabor Maté in Compassionate Inquiry.
Anna Westin (BA, Dip Appl. Ethics, Mag., MA, PG Cert HE, PhD) holds a doctorate in the philosophy of addiction from St. Mary's University, London, and is a classically trained Pilates instructor. A Somatic Experiencing trainee, she directs movement and arts-based workshops with survivors of human trafficking and co-runs the Movement and Care Colloquium with Université de Paris. She is the author of two philosophy books (An Existential Phenomenology of Addiction, Bloomsbury; Embodied Healing and Trauma, Routledge), a chapbook of poetry, and currently lectures at St. Mellitus College.
Anna Westin (BA, Dip Appl. Ethics, Mag., MA, PG Cert HE, PhD) holds a doctorate in the philosophy of addiction from St. Mary's University, London, and is a classically trained Pilates instructor. A Somatic Experiencing trainee, she directs movement and arts-based workshops with survivors of human trafficking and co-runs the Movement and Care Colloquium with Université de Paris. She is the author of two philosophy books (An Existential Phenomenology of Addiction, Bloomsbury; Embodied Healing and Trauma, Routledge), a chapbook of poetry, and currently lectures at St. Mellitus College.
Holly Murray is a master Pilates trainer and CEO of Pi Studio Ltd., a recognized space for healing through embodied experience. Trained directly under the legendary Romana Kryzanowska, Holly has spent over 30 years building an international career in Classical Pilates, culminating in a globally r...
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