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

Contrology (Pilates) is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. Through Contrology you first purposefully acquire complete control of your own body and then through proper repetition of its exercises you gradually and progressively acquire that natural rhythm and coordination associated with all your subconscious activities.

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

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

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

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

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