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Caged Lion
- Joseph Pilates and His Legacy
- Narrated by: John Howard Steel
- Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
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The surprising story of Pilates - the man and the method.
Part biography, part history, and part memoir, Caged Lion untangles for the first time Joseph Pilates’s opaque life story and the perilous journey of his exercise program known the world over as Pilates.
This is the story of Joseph Pilates, a gifted man who immigrated to the United States at forty-three with no assets or credentials. He not only invented an exercise regimen - which today is practiced by more than ten million people - but in the process, reinvented himself.
John Howard Steel brings Joseph Pilates and his eponymous exercise regime to life from his unique perspective as a student, friend, and confidant. Joe’s influence profoundly changed Steel’s life; in turn, Steel was crucial for the survival of the Pilates Method and Joe’s legacy. Steel’s vivid account traces the expansion of Pilates from a small cadre of dedicated adherents, through two periods of near extinction, to the global sensation it is today. Steel describes Joseph Pilates’s years as a prisoner during World War I, Joe’s motivation to discover his system of exercises, his inspirational teaching technique, and the unique attraction of the Pilates Method. It’s quite a story.
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Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and initially intimidating classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities. Faculty raved about the group as though the residency program had won the lottery, nicknaming them “The Golden Class”, but would Stern ever prove that he belonged? In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned.
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Thank you for reminding me,
- By Ms D on 12-29-21
By: Adam Stern MD
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F**k It Therapy
- By: John C Parkin
- Narrated by: John C Parkin
- Length: 8 hrs and 34 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 56
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If every therapist and psychotherapist on the planet could repeat this to their clients, like a mantra, again and again, there would be fewer therapists and psychotherapists. Because it works. Very quickly. Realising that what you're worrying about and stressing over doesn't really matter so much in the grand scheme of things is the door to freedom and healing. And the little profanity 'F**k It' is the key to that door.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Arrogant, dangerous New-Age blabbering
- By Mikkel on 01-14-17
By: John C Parkin
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Letters to a Young Artist
- By: Anna Deavere Smith
- Narrated by: Anna Deavere Smith
- Length: 4 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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From "the most exciting individual in American theater" ( Newsweek), here is Anna Deavere Smith's brass-tacks advice to aspiring artists of all stripes. In the manner of Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet, Deavere Smith mentors her young artist over a period of five years, sharing her hard-won wisdom about the challenges and rewards of the artistic life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great advice for artists of any age.
- By S. Barker on 10-30-17
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See You on the Mat
- A Story of Perspective, Resilience, and Transformation Through Brazilian Jiu Jitsu
- By: Marty Josey
- Narrated by: Marty Josey
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 19
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This book is about a journey. A journey of perspective. We all go through life with our own perceptions and expectations based on our pasts, experiences, and beliefs. Beliefs of how things are or how they should be. We interpret experiences and assign meanings to them. Many times, the meanings we assign, and the perceptions we have based on them, are very limited. We project our preconceived notions into situations which oftentimes keeps us from fully understanding or appreciating the opportunities we have at our fingertips.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Really Enjoyed it
- By Rambo on 09-12-21
By: Marty Josey
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How to Spot a Liar
- By: Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch
- Narrated by: Gregory Hartley, Maryann Karinch
- Length: 2 hrs and 53 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 127
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Have you ever been lied to? Of course you have, whether you knew it or not. Ever caught a spouse, business partner, parent, boss, or child brazenly lying right to your face? What if you could tell someone was lying, just by listening to them, and observing their action and behavior? Here's the first audiobook that gives you the tools to figure out what's really going on.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly educational
- By Lorelei on 12-21-07
By: Gregory Hartley, and others
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The Girls
- An All-American Town, a Predatory Doctor, and the Untold Story of the Gymnasts Who Brought Him Down
- By: Abigail Pesta
- Narrated by: Elisabeth Rodgers
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 158
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 145
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The Girls is a profound exploration of trust, ambition, betrayal, and self-discovery. Award-winning journalist Abigail Pesta unveils this deeply reported narrative at a time when the nation is wrestling with the implications of the MeToo movement. How do the women who grew up with Nassar reconcile the monster in the news with the man they once trusted? In The Girls, we learn that their answers to that wrenching question are as rich, insightful, and varied as the human experience itself.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Don’t waste a credit
- By Timothy McCarthy on 11-12-19
By: Abigail Pesta
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The Invisible Heart
- An Economic Romance
- By: Russell D. Roberts
- Narrated by: Kirby Heyborne
- Length: 6 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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The Invisible Heart takes a provocative look at business, economics, and regulation through the eyes of Sam Gordon and Laura Silver, teachers at the exclusive Edwards School in Washington, D.C. Sam lives and breathes capitalism. He thinks that most government regulation is unnecessary or even harmful. He believes that success in business is a virtue. He believes that our humanity flourishes under economic freedom. Laura prefers Wordsworth to the Wall Street Journal.
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2 out of 5 stars
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One of Susie Bright's Misses
- By Anne in State College on 10-27-15
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Hell Week
- Seven Days to Be Your Best Self
- By: Erik Bertrand Larssen
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 4 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Norway native Erik Bertrand Larssen is many things: a veteran paratrooper who served in Bosnia, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Afghanistan; a successful entrepreneur; and a critically acclaimed performance consultant. He has helped catapult the success of countless high-achievers, including Microsoft, Boston Consulting Group, and Statoil ASA executives. His life-altering and revered method improves performance by getting people to push themselves past the brink of self-imposed limitations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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very practical
- By Sam on 08-27-16
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A Wild and Precious Life
- A Memoir
- By: Edie Windsor, Joshua Lyon
- Narrated by: Donna Postel, Joshua Lyon
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 97
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 86
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In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software.
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5 out of 5 stars
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🏳️🌈 Wow! 🏳️🌈
- By Natalia Zimnoch on 10-15-19
By: Edie Windsor, and others
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The Baddest Bitch in the Room
- (Explicit Version)
- By: Sophia Chang
- Narrated by: Sophia Chang
- Length: 8 hrs
- Original Recording
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,862
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,651
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Sophia Chang is a badass of the music industry. As the daughter of Korean immigrants in predominantly white suburban Vancouver, she grew up shunning the “model minority” myth. Armed with a fierce sense of independence, she moved to New York City and infiltrated the world of hip-hop, yet remained mostly in the shadows of the artists she supported. With her debut memoir, Sophia Chang is finally ready to grab the mic for herself.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Something in the music spoke to me...
- By Tina G. on 09-30-19
By: Sophia Chang
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Being Heumann
- An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 432
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A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism - from the streets of Brooklyn and San Francisco to inside the halls of Washington - Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance, and inclusion in society. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a "fire hazard" to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license because of her paralysis, Judy's actions set a precedent that improved rights for disabled people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for everyone
- By Christopher A Cawthon on 09-28-20
By: Judith Heumann, and others
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Sit Down to Rise Up
- By: Shelly Tygielski
- Narrated by: Shelly Tygielski
- Length: 7 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 31
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The practice of mindfulness is most often touted for its profound mind, body, and spirit benefits. Shelly Tygielski here shows that mindfulness can also be a powerful tool for spurring transformative collective action. In a winning combination of memoir, manifesto, and how-to, Tygielski shares her evolution from a Jerusalem-born child of traditional Sephardic Orthodox parents to a middle-class American suburban youth who questioned her faith to a young executive in corporate America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Relevant and Motivating
- By Shelly G on 07-01-22
By: Shelly Tygielski
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Raising the Barre
- Big Dreams, False Starts, and My Midlife Quest to Dance the Nutcracker
- By: Lauren Kessler
- Narrated by: Hollis McCarthy
- Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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When Lauren Kessler was 12, her ballet instructor crushed not just her dreams of being a ballerina but also her youthful self-assurance. Now, many decades and three children later, Kessler embarks on a journey to join a professional company to perform in The Nutcracker. Raising the Barre is more than just one woman's story; it is a story about shaking things up, taking risks, and ignoring good sense and forgetting how old you are and how you're "supposed" to act.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Smug
- By Claudette on 02-07-20
By: Lauren Kessler
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Underground
- The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche
- By: Haruki Murakami
- Narrated by: Feodor Chin, Ian Anthony Dale, Janet Song
- Length: 13 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 294
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 267
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On a clear spring day in 1995, five members of a religious cult unleashed poison gas on the Tokyo subway system. In attempt to discover why, Haruki Murakmi talks to the people who lived through the catastrophe, and in so doing lays bare the Japanese psyche. As he discerns the fundamental issues that led to the attack, Murakami paints a clear vision of an event that could occur anytime, anywhere.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Just as you breathe, you dream your story
- By Darwin8u on 08-26-15
By: Haruki Murakami
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Going Om
- Real Life Stories On and Off the Yoga Mat
- By: Melissa Carroll - editor
- Narrated by: Eva Kaminsky, Luke Daniels, Allyson Johnson, and others
- Length: 5 hrs and 55 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 68
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 59
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With candid, witty, and compelling experiences of yoga from renowned memoirists, including Cheryl Strayed (author of the number one New York Times best-seller Wild), Claire Dederer (author of national best-seller Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses), Dinty W. Moore (author of The Accidental Buddhist), Neal Pollack (author of Stretch: The Making of a Yoga Dude) and many others, Going Om shares a range of observations about this popular practice.
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3 out of 5 stars
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a couple of good stories, but overall just eh
- By Melissa on 05-31-16
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The Warrior Code
- 11 Principles to Unleash the Badass Inside of You
- By: Tee Marie Hanible
- Narrated by: Tee Marie Hanible
- Length: 5 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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In The Warrior Code, entrepreneur, philanthropist, reality star, and retired gunnery sergeant Tee Marie Hanible serves up 11 principles to awaken your inner badass and thrive in the face of adversity. With insightful honesty and wisdom and set against the backdrop of Tee’s life, The Warrior Code will help you understand that things can beat us back from realizing our true potential...but the key is finding the way to realize one’s own innate strength.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Your mother wears combat boots
- By Juanita L. Jones on 04-04-20
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- Rebecca Klippenes
- 05-28-23
Great for Pilates teachers
As a Pilates teacher this was a great history of our industry and origin story for Pilates. It was wonderful hearing from a clients perspective and not a teachers perspective
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- sans
- 01-13-22
Matlock?
I enjoyed the book and it is inspiring me to try Pilates. The author’s voice reminds me of matlock, and the book’s got a little mystery and some courtroom scenes- there was something comforting and familiar feeling about it!
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- Amazon Customer
- 05-18-23
Very informative
As a Pilates teacher, this book gave me a lot. I enjoyed listening to it.
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- Lou’s Wish List
- 03-22-22
Wow! A must read if you love Pilates.
What an incredible recollection and tribute to the start of Pilates. I especially loved how the author described Mr. Pilates so well that you felt like you knew him.
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- A&B
- 02-22-24
Enlightened by a kind soul.
Disclaimer: My “reviews” of audiobooks are often very generic; however this book deserves a heartfelt review and appreciation.
I truly enjoyed listening to the author narrate his own story about the coming and evolution of Pilates; and his story and personal history with J. Pilates. It is evident the author has an immense amount of belief and dedication to the teachings of contrology and a deep affection towards the preservation and integrity of the man behind it.
Unlike many audiobooks, after only about an hour, I felt connected to Mr. Steel (the author) as if he was telling me (the listener) a story in my own living room. It really was an interesting, inspiring, and enjoyable book.
In a nutshell; if you’re interested in learning more about Pilates you should read or listen to this book; and or, if you’re interested in hearing a story of inspiration, persistence, and passion, you should read or listen to this book.
Thank you, Mr.Steel; you’re a treasure.
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- jaime heitmann
- 07-17-22
Excellent History of Joe Pilates
This was a great listen! As a student of Pilates for many years I really loved hearing from not only a student of Joe’s but a friend. Joe was a genius in my eyes and this book tells a rich vivid story of his life. There are parts of his life that remain a mystery. I highly recommend this book. I loved it!
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- zer0rez
- 04-17-23
A True Gem!
A true Gem of a book, the humidity and grace of Mr Steel shines throughout.
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- Ashley
- 04-07-23
A must read if you teach Pilates
It was hard to understand the author reading his memoir at times, but the story was so fascinating it made it worthwhile. I’ve been teaching this ingenious method for 8+ years and the more I learn about it’s origins and Joe, the more respect I have for it. Joe was a man ahead of his time and I’m grateful for this story to bridge the gap from the start of Contrology to where it’s evolved to now. A must listen if you are in the Pilates industry today.
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- Ocean
- 09-23-22
Patricia
Excellent,honoring and inspiring...this book will fuel my practice going forward. You have made Joe smile. Blessings
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- Mimi B.
- 01-29-23
Loved it so much!
It’s so worth the listen! As a Pilates instructor of this time/era, I thoroughly enjoyed it!
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