As you exhale suck your abdominals up and into your body drawing your hipbones closer to your ribcage. Imagine your backbone is a string of pearls and each vertebra is one of the pearls along that string. Now, as if peeling your spine from the floor one pearl, or vertebra, at a time, lift your tail bone toward the sky. As your pelvis tilts and lifts from the floor, keep a nice "C" curve in the spine and your weight between your shoulder blades. Be careful not to arch your back or force the movement. When you reach the top of your range of motion come to a holding position. Inhale. Now reverse the movement as you exhale, returning to the floor beginning with the upper back down to the tailbone, one vertebra at a time. Be aware of maintaining abdominal control throughout the movement.

Pilates training develops an infrastructure that is essential for your good health. Bridging, and other Pilates exercises, strengthen internal muscles, such as your abdominus transverses and pelvic floor, laying the foundation for the rest of the house that is your body.