What is pilates?
~ A system for muscular conditioning combining posture and core stability with muscle and
joint mobility.
~ Over 1,000 exercises and modifications create custom workouts to lengthen and strengthen muscles into correct alignment.
~ Emphasis is on pelvis and shoulder stability to restore the natural, unexaggerated curvatures of the spine.
~ Focus is put first on maintaining the correct placement of the torso (firing into your deepest
core muscles) and then on isolating the muscles of the legs, thighs, buttocks, arms, and back.
~ The principles, concentration, control, centering, flow, precision, rhythm, and breathing are applied to anatomical principles in three dimensional movements.

Where does Pilates come from?

Joseph Hubertus Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. He overcame a sickly childhood of asthma, rickets, and rheumatic fever by training as a diver, skier, body builder, gymnast, and boxer. His success led him to England as a self defense instructor for detectives at Scotland Yard.

During World War I, he enabled patients to rehabilitate by attaching springs to their hospital beds. This system became the foundation of the specific movements on his uniquely designed equipment and apparatus.

In 1920, the first Pilates studio was opened in New York City, J. H. Pilates teachings of “Contrology,” the ability to control your muscles with your mind, was established and the method was quickly adapted by dancers and athletes. In the past 25 years, the secret of Pilates has become embraced by the general public and doctors worldwide.