Abstract
The theme of this paper is to know to what extent my class activities adopting Pilates based body-conditioning heightened students’ consciousness of body and mind. In order to do so, in my class, I made the time for “reflection” to let them acquire and deepen their own “awareness” and after the class, set out questionnaires and worksheets. In this paper, I analyzed the data of those questionnaires and worksheets of my own making which my students answered during each lesson. The result of the analysis showed that students who were participated in my class activities recognize the importance of such skills as “objective understanding of the state of their own mind and body”, “posture and behavior conscious of the center of body”, and “the method of relaxation” and practice these skills occasionally and voluntarily, even in their everyday life. Nowadays, there is a warning that the students’ state of health is rapidly deteriorating. Thus we must develop a new type of class of physical education which can cope well with such a crucial situation. The result of this research suggests a new way of instruction which should be used in the class of today’s university level’s physical education.
