Pilates

Benefits of Pilates:

• Lose weight
• Reform or improve your posture
• Boost self confidence and mind-body awareness
• Reduce your stress level
• Gain higher energy levels
• Alleviate chronic back pain
• Tone and tighten, creating long lean muscles
• Prevent or recover from injury
• Increase your strength and dexterity

About Pilates:

Pilates began as a rehabilitative form that was designed to build up the body evenly and safely. It creates long toned muscles, and strength without producing bulk.
When Pilates is practiced correctly, it can work with laser-like effectiveness, even when only done for a small number of hours per week. A twenty minute routine practiced regularly is often enough to show a significant change in body appearance and weight.

Centered on movement from the inside out, the techniques used in Pilates are a great way to lose weight, strengthen pelvic and abdominal areas, improve flexibility and dexterity, and fortify your muscles. Pilates is designed to strengthen and elongate muscles evenly, taking pressure off joints and preventing injury. With a primary focus on core stability and body awareness, Pilates delivers an intense and comprehensive body workout while stressing breath, control, and alignment.

Pilates offers the benefit of putting in a minimum amount of exertion in exchange for a maximum return, and the same invigorating feeling you’d get after a several mile run. Emphasis is placed on quality rather than quantity, and often after a short period of time, people report added health benefits, such as increased self-awareness and energy level, decreased stress level, and peace of mind.

Practicing Pilates teaches our bodies a different method of moving in the world, allowing us to recognize where our bodies are as they move through space. It is not uncommon for people to report improved posture and more graceful, economic movements in their daily lives after discovering Pilates.