Here’s a short anatomy lesson about your inner structure, read part two to take it into the studio. Your spine: Design and function Articulation is your ability to move your spine in smaller segments rather than big chunky blocks or as one piece. Our spine is...
Another brilliant week at our Pilates studio in North Melbourne where we looked to fortify your ‘short box’ series… a series that echoes the movement patterns of the ‘stomach massage’ series last week. Whereas in Stomach Massage the purpose is to provide lift...
Hello Pilates pals, Week four of our programme of your immersion into Classical Pilates, how are you feeling for it? Did you know that the Reformer we use today dates back to Joe’s Universal Reformer originally patented in the USA around 1927? He designed many...
Pilates history tidbit: Mr Pilates grew up in Germany, migrated to the UK to work as a boxing coach and vaudeville performer before being interned in a German national’s camp during WW1. He returned to Germany before deciding upon permanent migration to the...
Oh hi there, Did you know that the Pilates method was invented by Joseph (Joe) Hubertus Pilates (1883-1967)) who named his transformative exercise method Contrology? After he passed away the people teaching the method switched to using the term ‘Pilates’ and the rest...