The Playbook

Short books, free to read.

What we have learned about training at home, recovering properly, and living at a pace you actually chose.

Commuters standing still on a subway platform as a train blurs past

Slow Living · № 01

The Unhurried

Your complete guide to slow living.

Slow living has a marketing problem, because the phrase sounds like an aesthetic. It is none of that. It is the reversal of one specific error: living at a pace that was set by someone else.

About 15 minutes · 3,200 words

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Home · № 02

Room Enough

What a practice actually asks of a home.

The reason a machine does not fit is almost never the floor. It is that nothing in the house has been given away, and a practice that has to be set up before it can begin is a practice that happens less often.

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Movement · № 03

The Order

Thirty-four movements, and why the sequence is the method.

Joseph Pilates published thirty-four exercises in 1945, in an order. The order is not a difficulty ramp and not a playlist. It is the argument — and it is still, eighty years later, the clearest statement of what the method is for.

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