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Dance Wellness means practical education activity that actively promotes integrated development of humans. It includes not only healthy lives and improvement on performing ability of dancers but also meaning on wellness through dance. Overtraining with regard to dancer wellness leads to the deterioration of body function, thereby incurring injury or disturbing to express dance techniques. Pilates has been applied to as a training method for enhancing bodily functions and health care of dancers who have undergone problems due to excessive physical activity. Since visiting University of California, Irvine (UCI) in 2012, I have been carrying out research on Diane Diefenderfer’s Pilates Specialization for Dance Studies (PSDS) so far. In 2013, I introduced Diane’s PSDS at the 15th international conference organized by Korea National University of Arts, department of dance theory. After that, in both 2014 and 2018, I visited her studio (Studio du corps) on-site and conducted participant observation, interview, and data research. She has been succeeded classical Pilates of Ron Fletcher and Romana Kryzanowska and developed her own technique, with stretching for dancers included. The study was executed by dealing with emphasizing cognitive process in Pilates learning and aiming at enhancement on mind-body regulation capability by utilizing music. The class was held once a week for 14 weeks, comprising of one movement instructor and music therapist respectively, two participant observers, six students, and two video filmmakers. Those participants have recorded and analyzed their changing processes via observation, Journaling, video filming, interview, and so on. The main focuses on given class are first, promoting myoneural vitalization of core through prep works as well as analyzing one’s habitual posture and behavior pattern. Second, applying the most adequate Pilates music after watching myoneural function reacting to various music. Likewise, as a result of study, students recognized their postures and behavior patterns, and also the regulation capability on core muscles became strengthened, hence unnecessary physical tension turned out to be alleviated. In addition, sensory feedback with music dropped tension in muscles and heightened practice efficiency.