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History of Pilates

Where the method comes from.

Joseph Pilates, Contrology, and what survived to today.

Joseph Pilates called the method Contrology: the control of the body, the mind and the breath.

He built the apparatus himself — reformer, cadillac, chair, barrel — so the exercise could adapt to the person.

We teach that repertoire as it was built, informed by what is now understood about how bodies move.