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  • Home
  • About
    • About Tania
    • About Michelle
    • What Is Pilates
      • Joseph Pilates
      • Our approach
    • Our News
  • Classes
  • Pilates teacher training
    • Why train with us
    • Training, timetable, and registration
    • Standard Pilates teacher training courses
      • Before you start and what you need to qualify
      • Mat Instructor
      • Reformer Instructor
      • Group Reformer Instructor
      • Equipment Instructor
      • Comprehensive Instructor
      • Course content descriptions
    • Instructor Bridge programme
    • Instructor training policies
    • Our training graduates
  • Join our team
    • Become one of our Master Instructors
    • Make your studio an instructor training centre
  • Workshops
    • Upcoming workshops
      • Assess your breathing with a breathing expert
      • Teach breathing better using the Buteyko method
      • Help your body breathe better
      • Pilates for feet, pelvic floor, lower back, neck and shoulders
    • Special workshops & consultancy
    • Conferences
      • 2012 Pilates Conferences
  • Pilates articles
    • Finding your neutral alignment
    • Pilates breathing
    • Good pain, bad pain
    • Doing Pilates while pregnant
    • Doing Pilates after giving birth
    • Pilates glossary
  • Contact us
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What is Pilates

Pilates is a method of exercise and physical movement devised by Joseph Pilates to strengthen and balance your body. It uses mat and equipment based exercises.

Introducing Pilates...

The Pilates method was devised by Joseph Pilates in the 1920s. Pilates helps you develop correct posture and breathing, core strength, flexibility, and joint mobility. Your body is trained to work as an orchestrated whole instead of isolating muscle groups and developing them individually. Pilates engages your mind to improve your kinaesthetic understanding (awareness of the position and movement of parts of your body).

The Benefits of Pilates

The benefits of Pilates are:
  • improved breathing and body awareness
  • balanced muscle development
  • increased coordination, strength, and mobility
  • improved posture and sense of wellbeing.

Pilates exercises

Pilates uses two types of exercises: mat and equipment exercises.

Mat exercises are done on the floor and balance and strengthen your muscles using your own body weight as resistance.
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Equipment exercises use a variety of special equipment (such as the Reformer, Cadillac, and Wunda Chair) to help tone and strengthen your body.
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  • Home
  • About
    • About Tania
    • About Michelle
    • What Is Pilates
      • Joseph Pilates
      • Our approach
    • Our News
  • Classes
  • Pilates teacher training
    • Why train with us
    • Training, timetable, and registration
    • Standard Pilates teacher training courses
      • Before you start and what you need to qualify
      • Mat Instructor
      • Reformer Instructor
      • Group Reformer Instructor
      • Equipment Instructor
      • Comprehensive Instructor
      • Course content descriptions
    • Instructor Bridge programme
    • Instructor training policies
    • Our training graduates
  • Join our team
    • Become one of our Master Instructors
    • Make your studio an instructor training centre
  • Workshops
    • Upcoming workshops
      • Assess your breathing with a breathing expert
      • Teach breathing better using the Buteyko method
      • Help your body breathe better
      • Pilates for feet, pelvic floor, lower back, neck and shoulders
    • Special workshops & consultancy
    • Conferences
      • 2012 Pilates Conferences
  • Pilates articles
    • Finding your neutral alignment
    • Pilates breathing
    • Good pain, bad pain
    • Doing Pilates while pregnant
    • Doing Pilates after giving birth
    • Pilates glossary
  • Contact us