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

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.

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

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

Moreover, such a body freed from nervous tension and over-fatigue is the ideal shelter provided by nature for housing a well-balanced mind that is always fully capable of successfully meeting all of the complex problems of modern living.

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

Contrology is not a system of haphazard exercises designed to produce only bulging muscles. ... Nor does Contrology err either by over-developed a few muscles at the expense of all others with resulting loss of grace and suppleness, or a sacrifice of the heart or lungs. Rather, it was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat and not muscular like that of the body of a brewery-truck horse, or the muscle-bound body of the professional weight lifter you so much admire at the circus.