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 >.hQpped 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 prot6ge of the legendary Michel Fokine.<br > Today she teaches exercise to diplomats and ambas-<br > sadors， recording stars， actors and actresses， housewives，<br > doctors， as well as to business and professional people of<br > all sizes， shapes， and ages.<br >