Pilates Vallarta - 48335 Puerto Vallarta

The pilates method emerged at the beginning of the twentieth century as a method of physical and mental conditioning created and perfected by the German Joseph Pilates. Joseph Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. His childhood was marked by several diseases (which include asthma, rheumatic fever and rickets) which stimulated to create and develop this method in order to face all these pathologies.

Their knowledge, experience and practices in martial arts, bodybuilding and especially yoga were of great importance to be able to develop the known pilates method that combines much of all these disciplines. Part of yoga and martial arts, Joseph Pilates incorporated elements of the ancient Greek methods, Roman methods, and dance to finish perfecting his own technique.In 1926 Joseph Pilates and his wife are installed in New York where they perfeccionandoo and carried out his method. At the outbreak of the first world war, Joseph Pilates takes this opportunity to transform a former bed of hospital adapting it for support of the method, thus was born the first apparatus to its use as an adjunct of the Pilates method.

During his stay in New York Pilates attracts people on the street to disseminate his technique as a method of rehabilitation and conditioning. On the other hand and in a very subtle way (in secret), Joseph Pilates also disseminated is method in the balets tube where a large home thanks to the