Pilates
What Is Pilates?
Simply put, Pilates is a system of exercise designed to improve mental and physical well-being, increase flexibility, and strengthen muscles through controlled movements done as mat exercises or with equipment to tone and strengthen the body. It also increases circulation and helps to sculpt the body and strengthen the body’s “core” or “powerhouse” (torso). People who do pilates regularly feel they have better posture, are less prone to injury, and experience better overall health.
Pilates was infuenced by hatha yoga, gymnastics, modern dance and other movement systems. He designed about 40 mat exercises and hundreds of exercises for his specialized equipment. His exercises have been further infuenced by fields as diverse as physical therapy, somatics (e.g. Feldenkrais Method, Body/Mind Centering, Bartenieff Fundamentals), and Chinese medicine. Today, these (more or less modified) exercises are known collectively as Pilates.
This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains in the hinterlands cause rivers to swell and rush turbulently onward to the sea, so too will your blood flow with renewed vigor as the direct result of your faithfully performing the Contrology exercises.
-Joseph Pilates