Joseph Pilates Quotes

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• 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…
• Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates  the spirit.
• A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.
• This is the equivalent of an “internal shower”. As the spring freshness born of the heavy rains and vast masses of melting snows on mountains…
• 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…
• Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.
• 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.…
• The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors if there be any such so fortunate living…
• Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.
• With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?
• It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.
• A man is as young as his spinal column.
• I'm fifty years ahead of my time,
• Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles…
• Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.
• 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…
• 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…
• Above all, learn to breathe correctly.
• It is the mind itself which builds the body.
• Were man to devote as much time and energy to himself as he has devoted to that which man has produced, what astounding and unbelievable…

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