Pilates workout video with instruction and fitness training technique. Pilates video offers high quality instruction for health & fitness; workout technique training and method for body conditioning.

Welcome to Classical Pilates











Mission Statement

The mission of Classical Pilates Inc. is to film and preserve Joseph Pilates' original method and classical technique with the highest standards of historical accuracy and technical precision.  We are wholeheartedly committed to demonstrating that Pilates is both a science of the body and an art form, as well as poetry in motion when practiced with proper form, dynamics, rhythm, and musicality.  Classical Pilates exhibits how this brilliant method of body conditioning ultimately aims toward technical clarity, robust rhythms, strength, suppleness, and artfulness through movement.  We also show that the Pilates method is a lot of fun!



Hobbies and all forms of play tend materially to renew our vitality
with accompanying moral uplift.
- Joseph Pilates


The Classical Pilates Instructor Directory

In 2004 Classical Pilates began supporting the preservation of Joseph Pilates' original method in another way. The Directory page of this website now includes over 800 instructors who have comprehensive training by the most distinguished 1st generation master teachers who trained directly with Joseph Pilates. This directory can be a valuable resource to help you find a well-trained classically trained instructor, or to assist communication and collaboration between some of the most experienced professioanls in the field.



A body free from nervous tension and fatigue is the ideal shelter provided
by nature for housing a well balanced mind, fully capable of successfuly meeting all the complex problems of modern living.
- Joseph Pilates


DVD Production Notes
 
We are releasing two new DVD titles in February or March 2006 to help preserve Mr. Pilates' original method. Because of their significant complexity, we started doing research and schedule rehearsals during February 2005. The first DVD title demonstrates a brilliant and fun educational curriculum of Pilates for children and young adults ages 5-17; it was created, written, and co-directed by Jennifer Morley. We have a beautiful and charming cast of children who practice the method with natural spontaneity and skill. As many people know, Mr. Pilates pays significant attention to the needs and problems of children, so it was natural to study his writings and create a wonderful program. Both new DVD titles feature special guests Alycea Ungaro, best selling author and director of Real Pilates, as well as Fatima Bruhns, former teacher trainer for The Pilates Studio of New York.

The second DVD demonstrates traditional Pilates Mat workout levels with special attention to difficulties relating to neck and spine. The featured individuals are Steve Hash, Sandy Shimoda, and Karen Garcia. This DVD is interesting because we balance the two overlapping, yet sometimes diverging, professional areas of traditional Pilates technique with medical principles and concepts. The DVD script was written by Megan Rich, P.T., who helps define Classical Pilates movement in clear descriptive terms, as well as providing a sound medical substructure for each workout. Both DVD projects have been very challenging in new and creative ways.

In 2004 the Communicator Awards, an international awards competition that recognizes outstanding work in the communications field, conferred the 2003 Award of Distinction to Classical Pilates' first 4 instructional DVD titles. As a winner of the Communicator Awards, Classical Pilates Inc. joins an exclusive list of professionals who are recognized as the best within the field.

Since November 2002 Classical Pilates' Complete Mat Workout Series has been the top selling Pilates DVD on Amazon.com. Other Classical Pilates titles are in the top 20-30 selling DVDs on this same list. Classical Pilates produced these technique DVDs because it is important to preserve a visual record of the original method as taught by Joseph Pilates and carried on by Romana Kryzanowska, as well as her devoted students.



If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. If it is completely
flexible at 60 you are young.
- Joseph Pilates


DVD Titles

The Complete Mat Workout Series

The Complete Universal Reformer Series + Archival

The Studio Equipment Series

The Complete Magic Circle Mat Series &
Reformer Mat Workout


Our mailing address is:
1121 N. Bethlehem Pike
Suite 60
Spring House, PA 19477


 

 

"I want to thank you for the wonderful DVD's. I have already purchased the Complete Mat Workout Series & the Complete Magic Circle Mat Series. They are by far the BEST PILATES DVD's I have seen, and in my opinion, are the only Pilates series that I will have in my collection. In my opinion your Classical Series is TOP Notch. You have indeed captured the truest form and technique of Joseph. He would be very proud and honored. THANK YOU!!!!!"

-Andrea H.


"Pilates has changed the way I look at exercise. The muscle lengthening and strengthening has changed my body shape as no other exercise has been able to. Peter Fiasca is a Pilates purist. His method of teaching is sought out by both students and professionals of the Pilates method"

-Kim S.


"I thank the universe after every lesson for leading me to Pilates and Peter Fiasca, as an amazing gifted instructor. The Pilates method not only creates a new body shape and awareness, but also actually inspires you to become a more fulfilled person throughout your lifestyle."

- Patricia S.





To contact us:
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Pilates workout video with instruction and fitness training technique. Pilates video offers high quality instruction for health & fitness; workout technique training and method for body conditioning.