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About Us

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About Pilates

Pilates is low impact, safe yet challenging; it focuses on both your body and mind.  It is non-aerobic and moves gently, to lengthen and strengthen the muscles. It then focuses on improving core strength by strengthening the body’s core postural muscles, the muscles that are deep within the body, holding the skeleton upright; core strength is vital for the spine and especially the lower back. Pilates can help you recover from injury or operations, helps with flexibility of joints and therefore helps your body move more efficiently, helping you relax and ease tension.

In addition to the above, did you know Pilates also improves your sports performance, power and flexibility? It can help you isolate a muscle that is weak, thereby preventing injury. It can prevent, delay or improve osteoporosis, and help rehabilitate a joint replacement or spinal surgery. My favourite benefit of Pilates though, is breathing wide and full, as it stretches my upper back and helps calm me. Come and try a class to find out more!

 

How Pilates Balances Your Body

Pilates balances your body with exercises that isolate the muscles to help them move correctly and in the correct order. Our smaller and weaker muscles get less use and our larger and sometimes tighter muscles dominate our movements. You can tell this by looking at your posture, so we work on balancing the body out, looking at your flexibility and mobility on both sides of the body to lengthen /stretch the tighter muscles so they do not get overused. Improving your posture will help your body awareness, helps tackle muscle deterioration, improves alignment and core strength – giving you more energy and less pain. It will help you do more challenging tasks for longer, that require greater strength and mobility, from standing, to sitting for long periods or to gardening and sports.

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Benefits of Pilates

Pilates is non-competitive, being geared to an individual’s needs and their degree of commitment. It balances muscular strength and flexibility asymmetries while working at the individual’s own pace. It’s main benefits are:

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Tone and improve your body shape

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Reshape abdominal muscles and flatten stomach

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Rebalance – mind and body working together to help you focus and increase your energy

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Realign – increase flexibility and mobility

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Posture – improve posture, muscle strength, and coordination

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Balance – Stabilise core muscles, helping prevent falls and injuries

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Tone and improve your body shape

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Reshape abdominal muscles and flatten stomach

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Rebalance – mind and body working together to help you focus and increase your energy

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Realign – increase flexibility and mobility

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Posture – improve posture, muscle strength, and coordination

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Balance – Stabilise core muscles, helping prevent falls and injuries

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A History of Joseph Pilates

Joseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1880 and died in New York City in 1967, at the age of 87. He developed his work from a strong personal experience in fitness. Unhealthy as a child, Joseph Pilates studied many kinds of self-improvement systems he drew from Eastern practices and Zen Buddhism, and was inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of man perfected in development of body, mind and spirit. On his way to developing the Pilates Method, Joseph Pilates studied anatomy and developed himself as a body builder, wrestler, gymnast, boxer, skier and diver. He went on to establish his studio in New York and his wife Clara worked with him as he evolved the Pilates method of exercise, invented the Pilates exercise equipment, and of course, trained students.

Joseph Pilates passed away in 1967. He had maintained a fit physique throughout his life, and many photos show that he was in remarkable physical condition in his older years. He is also said to have had a flamboyant personality. He smoked cigars, liked to party, and wore his exercise briefs wherever he wanted (even on the streets of New York). It is said that he was an intimidating, though deeply committed, instructor. Clara Pilates continued to teach and run the studio for another 10 years after Joseph Pilates’ death.

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“Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. 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. A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.”

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A History of Joseph Pilates

Joseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1880 and died in New York City in 1967, at the age of 87. He developed his work from a strong personal experience in fitness. Unhealthy as a child, Joseph Pilates studied many kinds of self-improvement systems he drew from Eastern practices and Zen Buddhism, and was inspired by the ancient Greek ideal of man perfected in development of body, mind and spirit. On his way to developing the Pilates Method, Joseph Pilates studied anatomy and developed himself as a body builder, wrestler, gymnast, boxer, skier and diver. He went on to establish his studio in New York and his wife Clara worked with him as he evolved the Pilates method of exercise, invented the Pilates exercise equipment, and of course, trained students.

Joseph Pilates passed away in 1967. He had maintained a fit physique throughout his life, and many photos show that he was in remarkable physical condition in his older years. He is also said to have had a flamboyant personality. He smoked cigars, liked to party, and wore his exercise briefs wherever he wanted (even on the streets of New York). It is said that he was an intimidating, though deeply committed, instructor. Clara Pilates continued to teach and run the studio for another 10 years after Joseph Pilates’ death.

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“Pilates is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit. 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. A few well-designed movements, properly performed in a balanced sequence, are worth hours of doing sloppy calisthenics or forced contortion.”

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Pilates Principles

Joseph Pilates talked of eight principles that underpin each exercise:

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Relaxation

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Breathing

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Concentration

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Co-ordination

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Alignment

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Flowing movements

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Centring

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Stamina

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Why Farnham Pilates?

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What to expect on a Pilates Course with Farnham Pilates

The advantage of doing a course with Farnham Pilates is that you get a great introduction to an alternative way of exercising that compliments other activities in your busy lives, whilst teaching you to use your body correctly.  It can take more than 10 sessions for individuals to understand how to use their “core stability” in a positive way.  Once this is understood, this leads to an injury and stress free base to continue our active lives.

Our qualified teachers are friendly and approachable so clients can ask any questions, however basic they seem. Pilates mat sessions can use a variety of body positions – prone, supine, semi-supine, standing, side lying, kneeling or sitting. Stretching is an important aspect of the programme but attention is duly paid to correct alignment and the use of the stabilising muscles. Individuals must apply ‘core control’ throughout the large, resisted movements of the limbs.

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