What is Pilates?
In plain english, Pilates is a time honored, low impact system of exercises designed to develop tremendous core strength, flatten abdominals, increase overall flexibility and muscle tone resulting in a streamlined body shape with improved posture and balance.
In the opening chapter of his 1945 publication "Return to Life through Contrology", Joseph Hubertus Pilates summarizes his view of physical fitness as “the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many varied tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure”.
About Pilates and Physical Therapy
As an early advocate for physical exercise as a means of rehabilitating injured bodies, Joseph Pilates was perhaps the first to devise both a comprehensive and systematic approach to the burgeoning study of what we today call physical therapy. Even before books on his body conditioning principals were published (in the 1940's) he was developing a keen interest, and honing a precise intuition, to heal the body's pathways by means of resistance based exercise and mobilizing movements performed in systematic sequence.
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Today at NOVA Pilates, we continue that tradition by adherence to the Pilates principles and methodology, as they apply to physical therapy and individual needs. We work directly with you, only you, one on one. Our attention will not be divided by the scheduling of multiple appointments in a given hour. You and your physical needs will be our only focus. Your overall experience will be qualitatively different from any routine PT visit.
We assure time honored results, based on nearly 100 years of in depth work and study as to the how the body heals itself through dynamic movement.
