What is Pilates?
Pilates is a physical fitness system which uses spring loaded equipment, making it low impact and accessible to anyone. Pilates focuses on both general conditioning and rehabilitation while emphasizing core connection, breath, and mindfulness. The ten elements of awareness, breath, balance, concentration, control, center, efficiency, flow, precision, and harmony are combined to create a mindful and challenging workout. Depending on your specific needs and goals, certain elements will be the focus, yet all are implemented.
Is Pilates right for you?
Pilates is great for everyone. Because of it's rehabilitative origins (refer to the brief history below), Pilates is great for gaining mobility, strength, and balance within the body post injury or post surgery. As a result of it's low impact nature, Pilates is ideal for anyone with joint pain, especially if traditional workout methods tend to cause flare ups. Pilates is often recommended for cross training whether you are currently preparing for a marathon, a performance, or just working on gaining muscle. While Pilates can be a great way to rehabilitate, Pilates can also be extremely challenging! Regardless of your goal, every session with Sarah is geared towards a full body workout where you will leave feeling sufficiently worked, stretched, and strong.
**Note: Please be mindful when choosing a Pilates studio/instructor, that some teach a classical method while others have modernized the exercise form. Neither technique is better than the other, however, some are higher impact than others and may be problematic if suffering from an injury or ailment. Sarah holds true to the classical technique, putting form and quality of movement before all else.
A brief history:
Pilates is a workout technique that was created in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. As a young child, Joseph Pilates battled with asthma and a variety of there ailments. He turned to fitness as a way to combat these ailments and was always studying new workout regimens to expand his knowledge. As he grew older, Joseph became an avid diver, gymnast, and boxer.
In 1912, he moved from Germany, his home country, to England where he became a self defense instructor for detectives at Scotland Yard. At the outbreak of World War II, Joseph was interned as an "enemy-alien" with other German nationals. It was here that he refined the technique that is now known as Pilates. He rigged pulleys and springs to hospital beds to treat his fellow internees, enabling bed ridden patients to exercise. These designs would later serve as the basis for equipment used today in studios all over the world.
Upon his release from the interment camp, Joseph returned to Germany where his technique was embraced by the dance community. He later moved to New York, where he and his wife opened up a fitness studio. As they had in Germany, the dancers quickly took up his teachings. It was here that many of today's "Pilates elders" learned directly from Joseph, allowing them to pass on his knowledge, creating the large Pilates industry we have today.
Pilates is a physical fitness system which uses spring loaded equipment, making it low impact and accessible to anyone. Pilates focuses on both general conditioning and rehabilitation while emphasizing core connection, breath, and mindfulness. The ten elements of awareness, breath, balance, concentration, control, center, efficiency, flow, precision, and harmony are combined to create a mindful and challenging workout. Depending on your specific needs and goals, certain elements will be the focus, yet all are implemented.
Is Pilates right for you?
Pilates is great for everyone. Because of it's rehabilitative origins (refer to the brief history below), Pilates is great for gaining mobility, strength, and balance within the body post injury or post surgery. As a result of it's low impact nature, Pilates is ideal for anyone with joint pain, especially if traditional workout methods tend to cause flare ups. Pilates is often recommended for cross training whether you are currently preparing for a marathon, a performance, or just working on gaining muscle. While Pilates can be a great way to rehabilitate, Pilates can also be extremely challenging! Regardless of your goal, every session with Sarah is geared towards a full body workout where you will leave feeling sufficiently worked, stretched, and strong.
**Note: Please be mindful when choosing a Pilates studio/instructor, that some teach a classical method while others have modernized the exercise form. Neither technique is better than the other, however, some are higher impact than others and may be problematic if suffering from an injury or ailment. Sarah holds true to the classical technique, putting form and quality of movement before all else.
A brief history:
Pilates is a workout technique that was created in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. As a young child, Joseph Pilates battled with asthma and a variety of there ailments. He turned to fitness as a way to combat these ailments and was always studying new workout regimens to expand his knowledge. As he grew older, Joseph became an avid diver, gymnast, and boxer.
In 1912, he moved from Germany, his home country, to England where he became a self defense instructor for detectives at Scotland Yard. At the outbreak of World War II, Joseph was interned as an "enemy-alien" with other German nationals. It was here that he refined the technique that is now known as Pilates. He rigged pulleys and springs to hospital beds to treat his fellow internees, enabling bed ridden patients to exercise. These designs would later serve as the basis for equipment used today in studios all over the world.
Upon his release from the interment camp, Joseph returned to Germany where his technique was embraced by the dance community. He later moved to New York, where he and his wife opened up a fitness studio. As they had in Germany, the dancers quickly took up his teachings. It was here that many of today's "Pilates elders" learned directly from Joseph, allowing them to pass on his knowledge, creating the large Pilates industry we have today.