PILATES

Undeniably one of the most on trend forms of exercise, celebrated by celebrities and sportspersons alike, The Pilates Method, started by Joseph Pilates, has created life fitness benefits and limitless potential for followers and practitioners across the globe.

Joseph Hubertus Pilates (1883 – 1967) was a German physical trainer, writer, and inventor. He is credited with inventing and promoting the Pilates method of physical fitness. He lived in England, Germany and then eventually America, dedicating his life to fitness.

After meeting his wife in 1925, Joseph and Clara Pilates established a devoted following in the local dance and performing-arts community of New York. Well-known dancers such as George Balanchine, who arrived in the United States in 1933, and Martha Graham, who had come to New York in 1923, became devotees and regularly sent their students to the Pilates for training and rehabilitation. His exercise regimen, built flexibility, strength and stamina. Their studio on 8th Avenue in New York became a place of importance to all high society women who wanted to train in the Pilates method.

In his early life Joseph Pilates suffered from many illnesses. He focussed on strengthening and changing his own mental and physical wellbeing and then offering solutions from his unique training methods to others. He dedicated his life to the study and practise of Contrology, gymnastics, yoga, martial arts, boxing, body building, animal movement study, posture and breathing techniques to create the Pilates method. It provides limitless potential for individuals to improve their wellbeing. 

Pilates is practised and studied worldwide to this day by men and women of all ages and abilities.