Symmetry In Motion Pilates

05/27/2025

With Merrithew – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/27/2025

With Brooke Siler Pilates – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

05/19/2025

“To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.”
~ Robert Irwin, American artist

Spinal Extension with Straight Legs

05/19/2025

What you find in 1 exercise you will find in others

“To be an artist is not a matter of making paintings or objects at all. What we are really dealing with is our state of consciousness and the shape of our perceptions.”
~ Robert Irwin, American artist

Spinal Extension with Straight Legs

05/17/2025

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05/17/2025

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

Expand your vision.

05/17/2025

🧬 Connective tissue disorders are complex genetic conditions that affect the make-up of connective tissue. Connective tissue is important for providing strength and flexibility to structures throughout the body.

❤️‍🩹 Conditions in these tissues can lead to symptoms in the blood vessels, eyes, bones, heart, skin, joints, and more.

Vascular connective tissue disorders include Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Marfan syndrome, and Loeys-Dietz syndrome and are generally passed down on the mother’s side.

After my brother’s aorta dissected while at altitude on a skiing trip, he was diagnosed with a connective tissue disorder so I underwent genetic testing too.

I was diagnosed with Loeys-Dietz syndrome and underwent aortic repair surgery in 2009. 💪❤️

🤸🏽 Pilates has been the glue that has held me together and i cannot recommend it highly enough to you, your friends, and clients who might have it.

While the full spectrum of LDS is not yet fully understood, some of the symptoms in your clients might include:

• Herniations
• Eye abnormalities
• Translucent skin
• Easy bruising
• Hyper-mobility
• Abnormally long limbs*
• Curved spine*
• Flat feet*

👀 Look at my photo again and you’ll see these 3 symptoms more clearly. And though i have all these symptoms and more, I swear by Pilates for my continued well-being.

❓If you have any questions about LDS and Pilates feel free to ask. Please bear in mind that I am not a doctor and cannot provide diagnosis nor dispense medical advice.

05/17/2025

Safety first - after teaching for over 26 years I still follow this protocol

05/17/2025

So true 💗

There is no need to change the beauty, efficiency and genius of the work when we can so simply and creatively change our perspective from within it.

03/25/2025

03/25/2025

Life Magazine Archives. Taken: Mon Feb 12, 1951. Photographer: Michael Rougier

Joseph Pilates age 70 in his studio 939 Eighth Avenue NYC. (The photographer probably made him put a shirt on.) His wife Clara in her traditional nurse's uniform. The client is Opera singer Roberta Peters. We haven't identified the other young woman. (Mary Bowen says that it's not Hannah Sakmirda).

This was at least a decade before polyester workout clothing, and there wasn't a fitness industry to supply clothes, shoes, or equipment.

We found these pictures when were looking for some posters for the studio. We did a google search of the Life Magazine archive. We picked a couple we liked and Qoop sent us some nice high quality framed prints. Over the last few years we've shown the photos to curious practitioners. We think they're really cool because we still do/teach the same exercises every day. Our instructors always enjoy learning the "archival exercises" from Romana and teaching them in the studio.

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Esto es lo que pensamos que sabemos:

Joseph Pilates 70 años de edad en su estudio de 939 Octava Avenida de Nueva York. (El fotógrafo probablemente le hizo poner una camisa.) Su esposa Clara en su uniforme de enfermera tradicional. El cliente es cantante de ópera Roberta Peters.

Esto era por lo menos una década antes de la ropa de entrenamiento de poliéster, y no había una industria de la aptitud para suministrar ropa, calzado o equipo.

Hemos encontrado estas imágenes cuando fueron en busca de algunos carteles para el estudio. Hicimos una búsqueda en Google del archivo de la revista Life. Elegimos un par que nos gustaba y nos ha enviado QOOP algunas impresiones agradables de alta calidad enmarcadas. En los últimos años hemos mostrado las fotos a los profesionales de curiosos. Creemos que son muy cool porque todavía lo hacen los mismos ejercicios todos los días. Nuestros instructores siempre disfruto el aprendizaje de los ejercicios de "archivo" de la Romana y la enseñanza en el estudio.

03/25/2025

Take a look at these amazing archival photos of The Man, The Myth, The Legend - Joseph Pilates

Life Magazine Archives. Taken: Mon Feb 12, 1951. Photographer: Michael Rougier

Joseph Pilates age 70 in his studio 939 Eighth Avenue NYC. (The photographer probably made him put a shirt on.) His wife Clara in her traditional nurse's uniform. The client is Opera singer Roberta Peters. We haven't identified the other young woman. (Mary Bowen says that it's not Hannah Sakmirda).

This was at least a decade before polyester workout clothing, and there wasn't a fitness industry to supply clothes, shoes, or equipment.

We found these pictures when were looking for some posters for the studio. We did a google search of the Life Magazine archive. We picked a couple we liked and Qoop sent us some nice high quality framed prints. Over the last few years we've shown the photos to curious practitioners. We think they're really cool because we still do/teach the same exercises every day. Our instructors always enjoy learning the "archival exercises" from Romana and teaching them in the studio.

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Esto es lo que pensamos que sabemos:

Joseph Pilates 70 años de edad en su estudio de 939 Octava Avenida de Nueva York. (El fotógrafo probablemente le hizo poner una camisa.) Su esposa Clara en su uniforme de enfermera tradicional. El cliente es cantante de ópera Roberta Peters.

Esto era por lo menos una década antes de la ropa de entrenamiento de poliéster, y no había una industria de la aptitud para suministrar ropa, calzado o equipo.

Hemos encontrado estas imágenes cuando fueron en busca de algunos carteles para el estudio. Hicimos una búsqueda en Google del archivo de la revista Life. Elegimos un par que nos gustaba y nos ha enviado QOOP algunas impresiones agradables de alta calidad enmarcadas. En los últimos años hemos mostrado las fotos a los profesionales de curiosos. Creemos que son muy cool porque todavía lo hacen los mismos ejercicios todos los días. Nuestros instructores siempre disfruto el aprendizaje de los ejercicios de "archivo" de la Romana y la enseñanza en el estudio.