A holistic approach to anything means providing a level of support that encompasses a person’s entire well-being; physical, emotional, social and spiritual.
For example, if you go to your health professional with digestive health symptoms, they assess your nutrition, exercise, sleep, menstrual cycle, stress, environment and other medications to get to the root cause.
By nature, Pilates is a holistic fitness model. It works with the body and mind intending to bring harmony to both.
Suffering ongoing illnesses as a child was Joseph Pilate’s motivation for researching ways to heal. Through this, he learned to understand human emotional and physical health interconnection. He designed his program with these six guiding principles which speak to holism:
The proof was in the pudding, with this dedication seeing Joseph recover from his conditions and become a competent gymnast, diver and skier.
Through decades of Pilates and women’s health experience and qualifications, The Mat App has defined a new way of nourishing the body through movement.
We focus on more than building a solid core or lean physique and encourage holistic methods like working with your menstrual cycle and moving in tune with the seasons for even better results.
Pilates is more than getting to class each day. From casually walking, playing sport or lifting a child, ask yourself:
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