CHAPTER ONE<br > Who Is Callan<br >Pinckney and Why Is<br > She Writing This<br > Book?<br >Callan Pinckney is not a celebrity， model， or movie star，<br >nor is she a medical doctor with a string of degrees. She is<br >a teacher， albeit unorthodox， of one of the most innovative<br >exercise programs today. How she became a teacher is not<br >so simple to explain. How she devised the program began<br >somewhere between Savannah， Georgia， and Southeast<br >Asia， sometime in the 1960s.<br > On paper， Callan s life looks like the figment of a fertile<br >imagination， a scenario for a movie script:<br > A ninth-generation American Southern debutante， Callan<br >hopped a freighter bound for Germany in 1961 and hitch-<br >hiked around the world for the better part of ten years， com-<br >pletely missing the turbulent sixties in this country.<br > She shoveled snow in London， tracked migrating herds in<br >Central Africa， painted the decks of a freighter as a member<br >of its crew， sold peanuts table to table in a fashionable<br >Tokyo rooftop restaurant， and taught British pronunciation to<br >four hundred Chinese children in Hong Kong. These are but<br >a few of her survival jobs.<br > Born with spinal curvatures (scoliosis and swayback)， one<br >hip higher than the other， and feet turned inward so severely<br >that she wore leg braces to her waist for seven years of her<br >childhood， Callan went on to study classical ballet for twelve<br >years with a protege of the legendary Michel Fokine.<br > Today she teaches exercise to diplomats and ambas-<br > ，4 ^^t~，~~，eae hnl i.~p， wives.<br >