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Joseph Pilates wrote several books, including Return to Life through Contrology and Your Health, and he was also a prolific inventor, with over 26 patents cited. [13] Pilates continued to advocate for and teach his method well into his old age, even once he was physically incapable of performing the exercises himself. [14]
He published two books related to his training method: Your Health: A Corrective System of Exercising That Revolutionizes the Entire Field of Physical Education (1934) and Return to Life Through Contrology (1945). During his lifetime, Joseph Pilates directly trained and certified two assistants, Kathy Stanford Grant and Lolita San Miguel. [11 ...
Romana Kryzanowska (June 30, 1923 – August 30, 2013 [1]) was an American Pilates instructor who started as a student of Joseph Pilates and his wife Clara at their studio on Eighth Avenue in New York. After the death of Joseph Pilates in 1967, Clara Pilates continued the studio for a few more years, and in 1970 Romana Kryzanowska became the ...
Though Fletcher achieved significant notice in the entertainment industry for his choreography, he is best known in the 21st century for having introduced the Pilates conditioning method, from its home base in New York City, to the American west coast via his Ron Fletcher Studio for Body Contrology, which he opened May 1, 1972 on Rodeo Drive at Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, California.
She moved to New York, married Edgar Trier and supported herself in the United States as a dancer, acrobat, and most notably a roller-skating contortionist. A devastating injury which occurred in 1950 brought her to Joseph and Clara Pilates, founders of the Pilates method of exercise and strength training. Throughout the 1950s, she was trained ...
Eve Gentry (August 21, 1909 [1] – June 17, 1994; [2] née Henrietta Greenhood, and pseudonym Eve Brooks) [3] was a modern dancer, and later a Pilates master instructor.She was an original disciple of Joseph Pilates, and a master teacher of his technique to generations of instructors.
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Lolita San Miguel, born on October 9, 1934, in New York City to Puerto Rican parents, is a distinguished figure in both the dance and Pilates worlds. She began her dance training at the age of 7 in Puerto Rico and later moved to New York, where she studied at the School of American Ballet.