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...
Welcome to Week 1/16 of our new block training programme designed for your success and confidence in the North Melbourne studio. Each group class level will be working on similar themes and this week we are looking at the ‘centering’ family of exercises and the key...
Soon we will clock up a month of Pilates in 2024…. commencing 5 February, we are best positioned to roll out our new group class format. I have emailed a copy of our client handbook which outlines your role in the process of attending group classes at The Movement...