Breath is fundamental to life. It’s so fundamental in fact that we rarely think about our breathing, it’s something we just do. We don’t even realize it’s happening and yet without it we cease to function.
Pilates is a way for us to increase the health of our bodies and it’s logical that breath, as a fundamental aspect of our bodies, would be a big part of that. In his book, Return to Life Through Contrology, Joseph Pilates states “ . . . above all, learn how to breathe correctly.”
