Pilates is the art of aligning your body in preparation for movement, in order to protect your body and prevent injuries. Focus is on strengthening the stabilising muscles, the deepest layers of muscles which are in charge of keeping you upright. 

A faulty movement pattern or bad habits can lead to pain. Learn how to undo those habits by moving smarter.

 

Pilates is a body-mind conditioning program designed to teach efficient movement patterns and enhance good posture.

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Postural alignment and core stability are the basis of this exercise program.

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Benefits of Pilates

• learn conscious movement to increase body awareness

• correct muscle imbalance

• increase core control

• improve strength and muscle tone

• improve mobility

• increase breathing capacity

• lower stress levels

• prevent injuries

• less back pain

• improved athletic performance

• look better, feel better
   

Learn how to align your bones, engage your center and increase your breathing capacity to allow for healthy movement with less pain and injury.

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Workout Principles

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• Concentration
  Learn healthy movement patterns and retrain inefficient patterns by applying your conscious awareness to control movement.
   

• Breathing
  Efficient breathing enhances well-being and energy.
  Pilates breathing is a movement pattern often inhibited and tight by pain, anxiety and stress. Learn how to be more economical with your breath and allow your breath to help you through the movements.
   

• Alignment of all the bones and joints in "neutral" is emphasised prior to movement. When a joint is in neutral, the force created by all the components of the kinetic chain is transferred through the center of each joint thus maintaining the joints integrity.
   

• Centering is taking your awareness to the deepest layers of muscles - the postural muscles, also known as the stabilising muscles. Effective stabilisation of the trunk produces optimal alignment and in turn permits optimal transfer of energy throughout the kinetic chain.
   

• Control
  Muscles are under voluntary control, movement performed without control often lead to faulty patterns of muscle recruitment, pain and injury.
   

• Precision is needed for correct muscle sequencing and skeletal alignment.
   

• Isolation
  Stabilising muscles often need to be trained in isolation prior to being used in a movement pattern.
   

• Fun
   

Learn how to contract the right muscle at the right joint at the right time with optimal amount of force.

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