Joseph Pilates Mind Quotations

The mind, when housed within a healthful body, possesses a glorious sense of power.

Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness. Our interpretation of physical fitness is the attainment and maintenance of a uniformly developed body with a sound mind fully capable of naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.

Pilates is gaining the mastery of your mind over the complete control over your body.

It’s the mind itself which shapes the body.

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.

Contrology is complete coordination of body, mind, and spirit.

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 develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.

It is the mind that shapes the body

It is the mind itself which builds 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.

Man should bear in mind and ponder over the Greek admonition - Not Too Much, Not Too Little.

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

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

Man should develop his physical condition simultaneously with that of his mind.