Return to Life - Softcover

Pilates, Joseph H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0976823209 ISBN 13: 9780976823209

Publisher: Pilates Method Alliance, Incorporated, 2012

Synopsis

RETURN TO LIFE is the original Pilates exercise book written by the creator and visionary of the Pilates method of exercise, Joseph H. Pilates. This book reviews the conceptual basis and philosophy of the Pilates method or ‘Contrology’ and the original matwork exercises Mr. Pilates taught in the studio on 8th Avenue and 55th Street in New York City. The model featured in this book is Mr. Pilates himself at the age of 60.

About this title

About the Author

At the beginning of the First World War, Joseph Pilates was imprisoned in England along with many Germans who happened to be living at the time in and around Lancaster, England. He was a German national who had been boxing and performing in England prior to 1914. While living in the Camp, he taught other residents the series of exercises that he had developed for personal use over the preceding decades both in Germany and in England. His own exercise sets drew strongly from his studies of yoga and Zen, as well as ancient Roman and Greek exercise regimens.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pilates Method Alliance, Incorporated
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0976823209
• ISBN 13: 9780976823209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 106