03/19/2023
Fantastic article about Joseph H. Pilates
including illustrations of where & how Pilates began…Knockaloe, internment camp in the Isle of Man.
He called it “Contrology” & then it evolved to Pilates.
He was truly ahead of his time, brilliant!
I am honored daily to teach what I have learned from the Classic Method to the Contemporary variations. It is my life long journey.
Pilates can benefit everyone from the injured body to the athlete, pregnant to our elder lovelies. Mind & Body.
The exercise phenomenon born in a prisoner-of-war camp Knockaloe, an internment camp on the Isle of Man, was the unlikely setting for the development of Pilates – a regimen that continues to acquire devotees to this day. Its inspiration was unlikelier still.
12/11/2022
12/11/2022