Connor the Conker

The Amazing Adventures of Connor The Conker is the first book in a series of character-driven stories incorporating Pilates for kids..

The Amazing Adventures Of Connor the Conker is the first Character story driven Pilates book for children . A 40 page picture book for the very young (4-7), with adventures, a rhyming story, Pilates and colouring! It's about a little conker Connor, his friends and adventures!

Originally Rachel started out as a professional dancer/choreographer and taught children/adults dance in between 'jobs'. Rachel discovered Pilates and the benefits along the way and fell in love with the whole process so became first a Master Trainer and then an Examiner. After working with fellow Master Trainer Joyce Gavin in America and Dublin on the Core Pilot Reformer, Rachel was asked to write a story to help engage children with Pilates. This was how 'Connor The Conker' started.

Connor is the name of Rachels' friends' autistic son whose nickname is 'Conks' or 'Conker' he has wonderful red hair, a baseball cap, boots, and loves adventures! So its fair to say Connor was the inspiration for the main character.
The stories and classes were a success so Rachel decided to put them into a series of books.

check out a snippet of a story about our little man here

and see more details about Conner here

Pilates for Children a professional course coming to the PROGRESSIVE Pilates Academy
full details will be posted on www.bodyfirmpilates.com

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