By participating in a regular Pilates exercise regime you will:

• improve posture
  
• strengthen your core
  
• ease back & neck pain
  
• increase flexibility
  
• tone & streamline
  
• flatten your stomach
  
• heighten body awareness
  
• enhance athletic performance

Pilates work is all about de-compressing, stabilizing, mobilizing, and articulating the spine and joints. It is an ideal movement system to help create a more healthy body in addition to strengthening and stretching muscles creating a longer, leaner look, without bulk.

“Pilates,” is named after Joseph Pilates, who created The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning (also called Contrology) in the 1920’s. As a child Joe was sickly and taunted by the other children. He began experimenting with different physical training regimes and by the time he was 14 he was posing for anatomy charts. He went on to become a boxer and gymnast. While incarcerated in the war, Joe started to fashion rehabilitation devices out of the hospital furnishings to rehabilitate the soldiers. BTW:CREATED BY A MAN FOR MEN. The Pilates Apparatus (Reformer, Cadillac, Chair, Ladder Barrel, Spine Corrector, etc.) are the modern day versions of his inventions that he used during the war as almost physical therapy devices.

Pilates is a Mind~Body~Spirit form of exercise: Physical movement with a profound, inwardly directed awareness or focus in which the orientation is towards process, not competition. It stimulates cognitive and physical development.

Concentration, Control, Centering, Precision, Breath, Flow

Regarding the method: “It was conceived to limber and stretch muscles…so the body will be as limber as that of a cat.”

• In 10 sessions you will feel the difference
• In 20 sessions you will see the difference
• In 30 sessions you will have a new body

~ Joseph Hubertus Pilates 1883-1967

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