What is Pilates
Change happens through movement, and movement heals
A visionary in the field of fitness and rehabilitation, Joseph Pilates first started rigging springs to hospital beds and taught systematic exercises to internment campers. While Joseph is the man behind the method, it was his wife Clara who became the real teacher in the studio and allowed the method to be passed on to apprentices.
During his lifetime this method of exercise was called Contrology. It was only after his death that it became known as the Pilates Method. The Pilates Method was built on innovation, systematic development, and practical application.
Pilates Smith is rooted in the same core fundamentals of intelligently designed workouts, developed to challenge your strength and endurance in order to shape and lengthen your muscles for a leaner, healthier body.
Joe and Clara at work on the Reformer in New York City, 1951. Photographed by Michael Rougier for LIFE magazine.