WHAT IS PILATES ?
It 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 can be described as 3 words, stretch with strength and control, and the control part is the most important, because that’s what makes you use your mind!" - Romana Kryzanowska
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Pilates is 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.
"A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion." - Joseph Pilates |
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The Pilates system is comprised of more than 500 exercises 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 will feel changes and feel the positive impact to your body and mind. Ideally learned through private instruction with a skilled, knowledgeable instructor, Pilates offers best results when practiced several times a week. "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]." - Joseph Pilates 
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The Pilates body of work, from movement to equipment, was created by Joseph Pilates and has been taught and practiced since the 1920's when Joseph Pilates began teaching students in the studio/gym he ran with his wife/partner Clara in New York City. Originally, Joseph Pilates named his work Contrology. With an emphasis on breathing, proper posture and the correction of various physical ailments, his studio was quite unique for the time. Joseph Pilates published two books in his lifetime. Your Health (1934) and Return to Life Through Contrology (1945). Joseph Pilates' legacy lives on in the millions of bodies that have experienced positive change through his work, and the teachers who keep his method alive through their work. "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 |
