Goals of Pilates

 
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Goals of the Pilates

  • Strengthening core and building stability
  • Balance, endurance and strength
  • Better posture and alignment
  • Prevent injuries and improve awareness of the body
  • Improved flexibility

Our instructors are trained to meet your personal goals. Pilates is a method developed by Joseph Pilates in the early 1900's to strengthen his own body having been a sickly child, and progressed his teachings to help rehabilitate soldiers of WWI in Germany. He grew his method, called Contrology eventually opening his studio in New York where his work continued on through his protégés. Today Pilates is recognized internationally as both an form of exercise and mode for rehabilitation.
 

 “If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old.  If it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.” – Joseph Pilates
 
Maura LavellePilates at the Peak