It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

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

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.

I learned...every part of the body; I would move each part as I memorized it. As a child, I would lie in the woods for hours, hiding and watching the animals move, how the mother taught the young.

By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Contrology is designed to give you suppleness, natural grace, and skill that will be unmistakably reflected in the way you walk, in the way you play, and in the way you work.

I'm fifty years ahead of my time.