Method Putkisto Breaks - The Body Lean & Lifted, 9th consecutive year!

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2010: 8 May (8 places still available) & 9 October (12 places still available) at The Dionysos Estate - Early Booking Price: £1300

'Method Putkisto is one of the most sensible, effective and body changing (if not potentially life and health changing) methods of exercise I have tried’.
Newby Hands, Harpers & Queen.

'Change requires movement, movement requires energy and every move has direction. The resources are within us: creativity and the ability to renew ourselves is endless. Improve your performance: clear your mind and enjoy the ability to change!'
Marja Putkisto

Marja Putkisto is a Finnish-born dance and movement specialist. She developed her technique while working at the Sibelius Academy (Finnish University of Music) and Finnish National Opera as a movement and dance teacher. Marja is a founder of the Pilates and Method Putkisto Professional Training Programme in Finland and has published several books and DVD's about Method Putkisto and Pilates. She is renowned for her intuitive, creative and yet fun way of teaching.

Marja and her team are an established feature of the season at The Dionysos Estate running two fully-subscribed breaks each year. This specific holiday has featured twice as a ‘Best of Series’ special on a major television travel programme.

The peaceful and dramatic canyon-top setting of The Dionysos Estate, in Kumlubük on the Lycian Coast, combined with the quite superb - pre-dominantly organic - fare provided, makes it an ideal venue for this healthy and life-enriching style of holiday.

In Marja's Own Words

Holiday is a time for reflection, recuperation and joy. It is also a place for reunion and friendship but even more importantly, it give us an opportunity to realign our bodies. 

This is why the Method Putkisto break at Dionysos is now in its 9th year providing a unique experience and environment.

Why do we need Method Putkisto, and just at this point in time?

If ever there were a time when it is important to keep ourselves optimally healthy, it is now.

* We will be focusing on the effect of additional stress on our bodies and, especially, the adrenals - caused, partly, by the current economic climate. This will be a week committed to learning how to manage and unwind the effects of stress. We cannot affect the world around us – but we can affect (up to a point) our own health.

* This year we focus also on the theme “if the head is free – the whole Body is free”! 

The Method

Method Putkisto is suited to persons of all ages and levels of fitness. The Method highlights the consequences of tightness and shortness in the muscles, and shows how, by elongating these muscles through deep stretching, you can improve your physique and posture, as well as create an overall feeling of wellbeing.

The holiday introduces you to different types of stretching and breathing that are adaptable for all body shapes. Effects will be immediate and by continuing the programme on your return you will benefit from a greater freedom of movement, increased energy levels and a greater sense of wellbeing.

It is an ultimate detoxifying, muscle rebalancing course and excellent for stress release, relaxation, healing and energizing. you will be able to see and measure the results by the end of the week and enjoy a lean, lifted and strong body – with freedom of movement.

Method Putkisto is a neuromuscular re-education programme designed to achieve optimum muscular balance, good posture, and superior levels of physical performance, appearance, health and overall well-being. Method offers a simple yet supremely efficient way to recover from stress and recuperate yourself.

Method Putkisto is suited to persons of all ages and levels of fitness.

How Does it Work?

Method Putkisto offers you simple ways you can use to improve the way you feel, the way you move and the way you focus. The Method teaches you to explore the basic biomechanics of the human body using exercise regimes like:

Stretching - breathing - deep strengthening - facial exercises - upper body

The Method uses five elements that will help you to learn:

TIME         Fully relax in minimum time
FOCUS    To change your focus with ease
FLOW       To follow the flow - the key to creativity
WEIGHT  Become aware of oppositional forces and how gravity supports us
SPACE    Learn about your own requirements, about your territory and become sensitive to those unwritten laws in relation to others

What do you Achieve with Method Putkisto?

You can measure the improvements in:

  • The way you feel
  • The way you move
  • Self-knowledge

You will feel the body and mind-changing effects immediately. Your improved muscle balance will result in greater freedom of movement, an improved sense of well-being and health as well as increased energy levels.

Releasing tension in the jaw, neck and shoulders will reduce headaches and the appearance of frown lines between the eyebrows. Strengthening weak muscles around your eyes as well as the eye muscles, literally 'opens' your eyes.

Circulation to the head and face will improve, resulting in better concentration and sleep patterns. Your energy levels are raised due to increased oxygen supply and you will feel and look rejuvenated.

Benefits of Method Putkisto
  • A healthier, more flexible and stronger body
  • Good muscle balance
  • A lean and toned body, flexible and healthy muscles
  • Lifted posture
  • Improved breathing technique, which increases energy levels
  • Improved circulation, reduction of cellulite, slimming effects
  • Stronger bone density
  • A strong, healthy back and abdominal corset
  • Good concentration skills
  • Improved body awareness
  • Greater freedom of movement
  • Relaxation – you will free yourself from neck & shoulder tension, tightness and discomfort
  • Improved alignment
  • Improved way of moving; controlling of the spine
  • Improved energy levels
  • Refreshed feeling
Comments from Exclusive Escapes Guests


‘It changes your body in a manner you did not think was possible.’
‘The feel and visible results are immediate.’
‘Eventually it is permanent, a process for life.’
‘It is simple and logical.’
‘It is perfection and precision.’
‘It is a vision that becomes reality.’
‘It is an experience.’

What the Papers Say

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Reservations

Should you have any queries whatsoever regarding Method Putkisto itself, information is available on: www.methodputkisto.com

Please contact Exclusive Escapes for all booking enquiries.