Joseph Pilates

It is the mind that shapes the body

— Joseph Pilates

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.

— Joseph Pilates

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence…

— Joseph Pilates

To achieve the highest accomplishments within the scope of our capabilities in all walks of life we must constantly strive to acquire…

— Joseph Pilates

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind…

— Joseph Pilates

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in…

— Joseph Pilates

Because of poor posture, practically 95% of our population suffers from varying degrees of spinal curvature, not to mention more serious ailments.…

— Joseph Pilates

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

— Joseph Pilates

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

— Joseph Pilates

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

— Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

— Joseph Pilates

You're only as old as your spine.

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in…

— Joseph Pilates

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed…

— Joseph Pilates

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.…

— Joseph Pilates

As a heavy rainstorm freshens the water of a sluggish or stagnant stream and whips it into immediate action, so does the…

— Joseph Pilates

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

— Joseph Pilates

Contrology is not a fatiguing system of dull, boring, abhorred exercises repeated daily "ad-nausem".

— Joseph Pilates

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.

— Joseph Pilates

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

— Joseph Pilates

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

— Joseph Pilates

Self-confidenc e, poise, consciousness of possessing the power to accomplish our desires, with renewed lively interest in life are the natural results…

— Joseph Pilates

Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.

— Joseph Pilates

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert,…

— Joseph Pilates

I'm fifty years ahead of my time,

— Joseph Pilates