Joseph Pilates
Americans! They want to go 600 miles an hour, and they don't know how to walk! Look at them in the street. Bent over. Coughing! Young men with gray faces! Why can't they look at the animals? Look at a cat. Look at any animal. The only animal that doesn't hold its stomach in is the pig.Collection: Men
By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?
Change happens through movement and movement heals.Collection: Movement
Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.Collection: Moments
In 10 sessions you'll feel the difference, in 20 you'll see the difference, and in 30 you'll have a new bodyCollection: Differences
The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.Collection: Mind
The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.Collection: Body
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.Collection: Pilates
You are only as young as your spine is flexible.Collection: Yoga
Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.Collection: Mind
Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.Collection: Over You
Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.Collection: Successful
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.Collection: Zest
Everyone is the architect of their own happinessCollection: Architect
It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.Collection: Mind
A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.Collection: Movement
Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.Collection: Play
Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.Collection: Mind
Breathing is the first act of life and the last. Our very life depends on it. Since we cannot live without breathing it is tragically deplorable to contemplate the millions and millions who have never mastered the art of correct breathing.Collection: Art
The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.Collection: Spiritual
Above all, learn to breathe correctly.Collection: Pilates
By all means never fail to get all the sunshine and fresh air you can.Collection: Mean
You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.Collection: Feel Better
Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.Collection: Balance
Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.Collection: Motivational
Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.Collection: Exercise
Concentrate on the correct movement each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits. Correctly executed and mastered to the point of subconscious reaction, these exercises will reflect grace and balance in your routine activities.Collection: Exercise
Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.Collection: Self Confidence
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.Collection: Pilates
The man who uses intelligence with respect to his diet, his sleeping habits and who exercises properly, is beyond any question of doubt taking the very best preventive medicines provided so freely and abundantly by natureCollection: Sleep
True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developedCollection: Pilates
It is the mind that shapes the bodyCollection: Mind
To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire strong, healthy bodies and develop our minds to the limits of our ability.Collection: Strong
As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the Pilates Methods purify the bloodstream.Collection: Water
With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?Collection: Mind
Not only is health a normal condition, but it is our duty not only to attain it but to maintain it.Collection: Normal
When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.Collection: Effort
Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.Collection: Perfect
Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.Collection: Exercise
Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.Collection: Strong
I must be right. Never an aspirin. Never injured a day in my life. The whole country, the whole world, should be doing my exercises. They'd be happier.Collection: Country
Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.Collection: Real
The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.Collection: Mind
Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.Collection: Mind
It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.Collection: Lying
You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.Collection: Air
It is the mind itself which builds the body.Collection: Mind
Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.Collection: Men
Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.Collection: Pilates
We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.Collection: Inspirational