Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. In order to achieve happiness, it is imperative to gain mastery of your body. If at the age of 30 you are stiff and out of shape, you are old. If at 60 you are supple and strong then you are young.

You are only as young as your spine is flexible.

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

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.

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

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.

Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.