Pilates
Pilates is a unique form of movement that emphasizes control, proper alignment, core strength and flexibility.
Many conventional exercise programs fail to work the body and mind as a whole, either over-working or over-stretching – which can leave it prone to injuries. Pilates delivers balanced movement based on full-body integration.
Pilates emphasizes mindful movement, focus on breath and awareness of your body is key. With mindfulness comes concentration, and with proper breathing comes energy and improved cognitive abilities.
This helps our clients regain their strength, alleviate the pain, enhance their posture and restore ease of movement.
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
- Joseph Pilates
"Most People Aren't Really Breathing
– They just Aren't Dying"
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What is PILATES?
Joseph Pilates began his career as a proponent and teacher of “physical culture" a broad-based movement advocating physical education through exercise, athletic excellence, and mental discipline. Through his own experience and teaching, he created a system of corrective exercise that he introduced to the American market in the late 1920’s.
Pilates first published his ideas in his book "Your Health," in 1934. His second book, "Return To Life Through Contrology," published in 1945, better defined his credo for total well-being.
"Joe" passionately believed that if his methods were universally adopted and taught in America’s educational institutions, every facet of life-from the individual to the societal-would be improved. His vision was that a systematic, disciplined approach to physical and mental mastery would raise the individual to a place of higher personal awareness, and would positively impact the world by eliminating human suffering.
Pilates’ vision remains a powerful force nearly 50 years after his death. His message is as relevant today as it was in the 1940’s. With his work now taught in countries around the world, influencing millions of students, Joseph Pilates’ dream is now being realized.
Why pilates?
Pilates is an extremely effective discipline of exercise that essentially rebuilds the body from its centre; the spinal column, out to the periphery, all movements are initiated from this central core.
Emphasis is also placed on correct bio-mechanical function in order to realign bones to their anatomically correct position and re-pattern movement.
Pilates helps you realign your posture to its neutral functional state, strengthen and balance the muscles to support this posture and restore spine flexibility and range of motion in your joints.
Pilates will dramatically change the way you feel, perform and look! Your body will gain balance, flexibility and strength.
Benefits Of Pilates
- Increases strength, flexibility, and core stability
- Builds long, lean muscle and makes you taller
- Relieves stress, tension, anxiety and depression
- Strengthens focus and awareness
- Restores health and vitality!
- Improves mobility, coordination and balance
- Accessible to all fitness levels and ages
The Hundred Year Plan was my last resort and final stop.
- Jacqueline F.
"The Hundred Year Plan was my last resort and final stop."
3 Facts About pilates
- Joseph Pilates originally called his method "Contrology": It was initially developed as a therapeutic program to strengthen and balance the musculoskeletal system and restore range and ease of movement.
- In his book Return to Life through Contrology, Joseph Pilates presents his method as "the art of controlled movement": Pilates movements which look and feel like a workout at the advanced levels: bring balance, coordination and strength to your body while preventing injury.
- While Pilates is mostly identified as a form of exercise: It is also very much a way to approach life and can help anyone to function more harmoniously within ther body and environment, while improving physical and mental perfomance.
Gain balance, strength and flexibility while restoring mental and postural balance:
Pilates is much more than a body of techniques that improve posture, strength and flexibility. Besides its countless proven benefits for physical and mental health, this "moving meditation" is a pathway to lasting inner peace and heightened states of calm and awareness that permit you to flourish.
Are you constantly stressed — even in absence of stressful triggers?
Evolution hardwired us to fight, flee or freeze in the face of stressful events. While stress is normal and even helpful in small doses, our bodies are not designed to be permanently hijacked by our fight-flight-freeze response.
Prolonged stress erodes our mental, emotional and physical capacities, and our joy and peacefulness. Over time consistent low level stress can affect our sleep, performance, hormones, blood chemistry, and nervous systems.
Pilates is a proven and effective treatment for
- Postural and structural problems
- Recovery from physical injuries and structural pain
- Lower and upper back pain
- Sciatica
- Stress, tension, anxiety and depression
- Osteoporosis/ Osteopenia
- Pelvic Floor Dysfunction
- Neck and Shoulder problems
- Depression and Seasonal Affective Disorder
Pilates is an effective, principle based approach, that is compatible with most medical treatments.
Why Pilates?
"Change happens through movement and movement heals. In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new body"
Jospeh Pilates
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