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

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.

Normal muscles should function naturally in much the same manner as do the muscles of animals.

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.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

You will feel better in ten sessions, look better in twenty sessions, and have a completely new body in thirty sessions.

Above all, learn how to breathe correctly.