The time has come – out with the old and in with the new! Revive and renew your body, mind, and soul with Simply Symmetria Pilates + Health!
Pilates can give you the boost you need to jump back on the workout wagon.

Spring-forward-pilatesGentle but challenging, Pilates encourages mental focus, body awareness, increases flexibility and strength, while improving posture and enhancing overall mobility. The benefits of Pilates range from helping elite athlete’s maximize their potential, to the everyday person who is simply looking for a great full-body core workout or an ease to muscle imbalance or injury.

If the long, bleak winter has you feeling blue, cheer up—a sunnier disposition could be as close as your refrigerator. While the effect food has on our physical health is undeniable, research is connecting food to our emotional health as well. The following 10 foods have mood-lifting properties that may help you shake off the winter blahs…

The 2010 Winter Olympics will promote the health and wellness benefits of participation in sport to an estimated 3 billion television viewers worldwide. According to the Public Health Agency of Canada, physical activity is a necessity for good health. Inactivity is as dangerous to our health as smoking.

Regular exercise is a key determinant of health for people of all ages, and getting involved in sport has been proven to greatly improve quality of life. While exercise can be as simple as taking a walk, cleaning the house, or hitting the gym—for many people participating in sports is the ultimate exercise, acting as the perfect blend of mental recreation and physical activity for enhancing their individual health and wellness…

So says Joe Pilates, a unique man with an unusual system of exercise called contrology. There is a happy band of people in this world, of which I am one, who are distinguishable anywhere by their springy step and “saved” look, a look that marks them off from contemporaries who shuffle and shamble in languid corpulence beside them. We know that we are saved because of our faithful sessions at the Joseph H. Pilates Universal Gymnasium on 8th Avenue in New York City. For it is there that Joe Pilates, a white-thatched, red-cheeked octogenarian, and Clara, his wife, and Hannah (she came in for a lesson 25 years ago and stayed on) bark their stern commands as we twist and complain through the exercises forming the core of what Joe, with his Germanic taste for scientific nomenclature, calls contrology…

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a happy, healthy New Year!