What Is Pilates? The GLOW Body Way
Pilates is a series of exercises that connect breath and movement while bridging to the core, limbs moving freely while the center stays stable and strong. What follows is my own method, GLOW Body, my technique and my results, grown from the Pilates tradition and made entirely my own, teaching since 1998.
I have been passionate about Pilates since 2003, and it continues to grow and guide my life in countless ways. My essential ideology celebrates Pilates’ core philosophies, a mind-body connection where energy flows, where moves are deliberate, where every single exercise has a purpose and a goal, and the results are obvious.
Pilates is a series of exercises that connect breath and movement while bridging to the core muscles of the body. The limbs move freely while the core remains stable and strengthens. I have taken these strong principles and sculpted them for synchronicity with our current knowledge, creating a progressive, safe, and effective school of movement.
What “the core” means here
The core, in my opinion, is the stabilization of the scapula and the muscles around it, the muscles of the abdomen and lower back, and the pelvis with the primary muscles that influence its movement and stability.
Over the years I have woven Joseph Pilates’ classical principles and elements of STOTT Pilates together with concepts of my own, into what I teach as GLOW Body. The pelvic floor work, especially, is entirely mine.
Pilates really is one of those things you have to experience to fully understand. It brings strength, purpose, and empowerment, a constant journey toward our best selves.
Start here
- Joseph Pilates & Contrology, where it all began.
- The GLOW Body Principles, the basics every exercise stems from.
- The Breath & the Neutral Spine, the two things to master first.
- The Pelvic Floor, the anchor for everything (and all my own).
- A Pilates Vocabulary, the words I’ll use as you move.