Pilates Method - Studio & Equipment


The original Pilates studio.
From left to right, next to Reformers:
Joseph Pilates, Mary Pilates (his niece), and Clara Pilates, his wife.
On a Mat at Clara's feet a client.

"Early Mat Pilates", ca. 1917, by an unknown photographer,
courtesy Collection Aabo Akademis Bildsamlingar, Aabo, Finland

Below:
The Cadillac of the Pilates Equipment,
which Pilates himself referred to as Trapeze Table.

To Right:
Joe Pilates demonstrates
the Sit-Up
at the "Tower End"
of the Trapeze Table,
Push-Through Bar
is sprung with 2 springs from top.
Other Exercises at the Tower End, with spring from top:


Parakeet

High Swan

Pictures courtesy of  Balanced Body WebSite


Doggies doing Equipment Pilates on custom-made CanineEquipment.

Picture courtesy of  Balanced Body

Watch Joseph Pilates in action, both demonstrating and teaching, in several vintage YouTube clips.

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Compiled by Lia Kidoguchi.