AYUR YOGA ECO ASHRAM IN MYSORE
Yoga & Ayurveda Retreats | Yoga Teacher Trainings
Get the Best Offers
Learn More
1706506849.jpg)
AUTHENTIC PILATES STUDIO
Discover the meaning of AUTHENTIC PILATES – Classical Pilates…No mass classes, no joining fees. Quality tuition by fully certified “Classical†Pilates instructors from beginners to advanced level.Training sessions for men and women are available in private, duets, trios and quad sessions. For quality purposes, no more than 4 clients are taken on any one session.
The Authentic Pilates Studio is a fully equipped studio which provides comprehensive training in the Pilates Method of body conditioning, utilising the highest quality Pilates equipment imported from NY as originally designed by Joseph Pilates.
PILATES is dedicated to the exploration of the concept that the human body has transformational potential for the total being. PILATES is capable of transforming a lazy body into a vibrant body, a dull mind into an active, aware and observant one and allows for the full exploration of the body and what it can achieve.
The Authentic Pilates Studio is registered with the following health funds:
JOSEPH PILATES – 1880 – 1967
Joseph Hubertus Pilates was born on December 8, 1880 in the German town of Monchengladbach, not far from Dusseldorf. One of four children, he was plagued as a child by rickets, asthma and rheumatic fever. Pilates was determined to overcome these childhood ailments during his youth, and took on various physical regimens including body-building, gymnastics, skiing, and diving. By the time he reached age 14, Joseph was posing as a model for anatomy charts. His father was a prize-winning gymnast and his mother a naturopath – which likely influenced the path he took in life pursuing the fields of movement and well-being. He was greatly inspired by Eastern and Western forms of exercise, and in particular by the ancient Greek and Roman philosophies of attaining and maintaining physical and mental perfection.
There are two versions of the story of how Pilates travelled to England in 1912. The first is that he decided to pursue boxing; the other that he and his brother toured England with a circus, performing as a live Greek statue act. After WWI broke out in 1914, he was interned along with other German nationals in a camp for enemy aliens in Lancaster, England. There, he taught wrestling and self-defence, motivating others to follow his fitness program and boasting that his students would emerge stronger than they were before their internment.
It was here that he be began devising his system of original exercises that he later called “Contrology.†Taking springs from beds and rigging up exercise apparatuses for the bedridden, he devised his earliest rehabilitation equipment. Joseph Pilates was transferred to a camp on The Isle of Man and there he became somewhat of a nurse, working with internees suffering from wartime diseases. In 1918, an influenza pandemic swept the world, killing millions of people – tens of thousands in England alone. Legend has it that none of Joe’s followers succumbed to the illness, even though camps were the hardest hit.
