What is Pilates?
“PILATES IS THE COMPLETE COORDINATION OF BODY, MIND, and SPIRIT”- Joseph Pilates. Formerly known as "Contrology", Pilates is available to any and all body types and fitness levels. It facilitates connecting the interconnected mind, body & soul, easing tension, promoting deep breathing, and improving well-being. Continued, frequent, practice can improve daily functional movement and flexibility, and assisting in preventing injuries.
Embrace and elevate your wellness!
Pilates improves your stamina and endurance for physical activities and daily life movement and in strenuous activity. Pilates helps your body relax as you regulate breathing, lengthens muscle for flexibility, and strengthens your core for fundamental, functional muscle movement. Improve breath with each movement and challenge yourself towards building strength in proper form towards improved agility, control, and precision in functional movement. You will be challenged with movement in proper form ranging from simple daily activities to athletic performance.
Ease and rejuvenate your body, mind, soul.
Pilates not only improves the ease and strength of movement within your body, but also facilitates awareness of the vital, interconnected mental, emotional, and spiritual parts of your whole. Practice mindfulness, overcome your obstacles, and work towards your goals while improving your movement, positioning, posture, performance, and potential.
What can Pilates do for you?
*Welcome and enhance all body types and all fitness levels.
*Improve and lengthen range and ease of movement through building long, lean, flexible muscles which help prevent injuries and stored tension
*Expedite identifying and targeting challenges and restrictions
*Provide balance, control, and precision with long, slow, exacting, muscle targeting and building
*Promote improved focus and energy stores by utilizing the whole muscle in intended range and motion, incorporating deep breathing and correct form reducing tension, strain, over-bulking, and knots.
*Facilitate lengthened range of motion, building strength, flexibility, gracefulness, coordination, balance, endurance, concentration, control, precision,
*Increase endurance and stamina in functional movement from daily life to movement requiring athletic and challenging exertion.
*Articulate core muscles, easing and helping to restore proper posture and promoting efficient and functional movement for many diverse types of movement.
Fun & insightful quotes about Pilates from founder Joseph Pilates:
"IT IS THE MIND ITSELF WHICH SHAPES THE BODY"
"Physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and various tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure."
“You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.
“A man is as young as his spinal column.”
“If your spine is stiff at 30, you are old. If it is flexible at 60, you are young.”
“Pilates is the complete coordination of body, mind and spirit.”
“Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.”
“Change happens through movement and movement heals.”
