• Who does Pilates?
  • What is Pilates?
  • History of Pilates
  • What are the benefits?

because we are all a little twisted

As a tool for body conditioning,
rehabilitation, or injury prevention, Pilates is for everyone.

  • Sports Specific Training
    (i.e. Marathon runners, Racquet Sports, Golf…)

  • Dancers/Martial Artists/Yogis

  • Office workers

  • Post or Pre-Natal Women

  • Beginning a new exercise regime

  • Struggling with chronic stiffness or injury
  • Sciatic Nerve Pain

  • IT Band Syndrome

  • Recurring Sprain/Strains

  • Osteoporosis

  • Arthritis

  • Muscle atrophy

  • Back pain (Spasms, Disc Herniation)

  • Post Rehabilitation
  • Strength Training

Longer, leaner muscles


Muscles can mold and change shape to the way they are worked. Eccentric, or lengthening,
contractions are the key to elongating muscles and are uniquely emphasized in Pilates exercises. Strength is utilized to increase range of motion ie. flexibility. You do not need to be flexible to do Pilates! The spring systems of the Pilates equipment act as weights and give both ‘resistance’ and ‘assistance’ to the body.

Balanced Posture


Learn to locate deep intrinsic muscles of the body and then apply them to bigger movements. This allows the body’s “Powerhouse” to be your core stability before your given movement is initiated.
Balanced posture and alignment
Muscles around the spine are worked to maintain natural, unexaggerated curvatures of the spine.

Prevention of Injury


The cause of injuries stem from muscular imbalances or limited range of motion in a joint or
muscle. Pilates rebalances the body.

Optimum results in other movement disciplines and daily life activities


Sometimes it is the smallest correction that makes the body more efficient. Since the body
works as a whole, with separate yet connected parts, you feel energized and body aware.

What is the history of Pilates?

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.

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.