Pilates is a unique and highly effective exercise method offering a complete, full-body workout that's beneficial for everyone, at any fitness level. Efficient movements combine resistance, body weight and balance with an emphasis on breath, mental focus, proper alignment, deep core development, and body control.
Pilates is a unique and highly effective exercise method offering a complete, full-body workout that's beneficial for everyone, at any fitness level. Efficient movements combine resistance, body weight and balance with an emphasis on breath, mental focus, proper alignment, deep core development, and body control.
"A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion." - Joseph Pilates
A body-mind exercise method emphasizing core strength, spinal flexibility and correct alignment along with greater body control, Pilates offers a natural, balanced and centered way of moving that equips you to perform both ordinary and extraordinary tasks with ease and grace, optimizing energy use and reducing risk of injury.
"I invented all these machines... it resists your movements in just the right way so those inner muscles really have to work against it. That way you can concentrate on movement. You must always do it slowly and smoothly. Then your whole body is in it." - Joseph Pilates
The Pilates system is comprised of more than 500 exercises that are performed across an array of apparatus. Balancing strength with flexibility with a focus on control, Pilates provides an unparalleled platform for health for every type of body at every fitness level. You'll be surprised by how quickly you see results, progress to more advanced levels and feel the positive impact to your body and mind. Designed to be learned through private instruction with a skilled, knowledgeable instructor, Pilates is ideally practiced a few times a week in the studio with a complimentary home Mat practice. |
"Self-confidence, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results of the practice of Contrology [Pilates]." |
The Pilates body of work, from the movements to the equipment, was developed by Joseph Pilates at the turn of the century and has been taught and practiced since the 1920's when Joseph Pilates and his wife Clara began teaching students in their "Body Conditioning Gym" in New York City. Breathing, proper posture, and the correction of various physical ailments were always the focus at Joseph and Clara's studio and in his books "Your Health" published in 1934 and "Return to Life Through Contrology" published in 1945. His legacy lives on in the millions of bodies that have experienced positive change through this work.
