Joseph Pilates Quotes, Thoughts and images

Every moment of our life can be the beginning of great things.

Change happens through movement and movement heals.

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

The Pilates Method teaches you to be in control of your body and not at its mercy.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

Patience and persistence are vital qualities in the ultimate successful accomplishment of any worthwhile endeavor.

Everyone is the architect of their own happiness

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

Physical fitness can neither be acquired by wishful thinking nor by outright purchase.

True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed

Above all, learn to breathe correctly.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.

Concentrate on the correct movements each time you exercise, lest you do them improperly and thus lose all the vital benefits of their value.

Good posture can be successfully acquired only when the entire mechanism of the body is under perfect control.

Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.

When all your muscles are properly developed, you will, as a matter of course, perform your work with minimum effort and maximum pleasure.

Never slouch as doing so compresses the lungs, overcrowds other vital organs, rounds the back, and throws you off balance.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

It is the mind that shapes the body

Before any real benefit can be derived from physical exercises, one must first learn how to breath properly. Our very life depends on it.

The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control of your body.

You must squeeze every atom of impure air from lungs until they are almost as free of air as a vacuum.

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.

It is the mind itself which builds the body.

It is better to be tired from physical exertion than to be fatigued by the 'poisons' generated by nervousness while lying awake.

We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.