When you reach a place in any Pilates exercise where you tremble or vibrate a little in your abdominal muscles and you hear me say, "There's the justice," I don't mean it as punishment. It's mostly a little joke that started with one of my students about a year ago. I was trying to explain to her that sometimes when you are new to Pilates or even if you are a seasoned student and approaching something challenging, your muscles will tremble a little. It doesn't hurt, and even though you think you might "feel" it the next day, you usually don't. I was teaching this student the rollback on the cadillac for the first time and I was making her go slowly taking a breath to imprint practically each vertebra one at a time when she started trembling. In the moment, I went to say,"There you go, did I do it justice, the way that I explained it?" What came out of my mouth was, "There you go, am I doing the justice?" She continued, still trembling, and said, "Yes! You're doing the justice!"
From there on out, we decided to call that moment of deep challenge "the justice."
