Studio Bodycentric

In a quiet street of Ampelokipi in Athens is located Bodycentric since 2001. Its bright space offers the most suitable environment for practicing the body and the tranquility of each practitioner with the Pilates, Gyrotonic Expansio System® & Gyrokinesis ® (The Essential of Body Kinetics) methods.

Pilates

Pilates is a method of body exercise, which originated from the Contrology technique of Joseph H. Pilates. Pilates himself described his method as "the art of harmonized body-spirit-soul through natural movements and with strict control of the will".

A few well-planned movements, done in a balanced sequence, form the exercises of the method, which are designed to exercise all the motor muscles of man. The method is a combination of Eastern and Western approaches to exercise. It approaches movement with an emphasis on muscle tone and strength as much as flexibility and self-centeredness.

Pilates focuses on strengthening the core of the body (abdomen, hips, and lower back) so that the practitioner obtains a stable center of support, while relaxing tension in the extremities.

The Bodycentric in Athens offers the following programs: individual, group and mat

All programs are closed by appointment. Their duration is 60'. It is important to arrive at the Bodycentric venue 10' before the start of the class as it starts at the scheduled time. Lessons can be canceled up to the day before the scheduled appointment at 20:00. Otherwise they are calculated normally.

… Results

1) Improves proper posture, timing and balance
2) Connects and aligns body parts with each other
3) Relieves areas that are strained and blocked due to work, stress, misuse or even poor posture
4) Helps in good health and improving sex life
5) It gives physical well-being and increases physical and mental strength
6) Makes the body firmer and in better shape
7) Makes muscles more flexible and joints more flexible
8) Relieves back or waist pain
9) Increases respiratory range and improves breathing function
10) Gives a better night's sleep
11) Reduces the feeling of fatigue in everyday life

… Target Audience

1) To all movement professionals dancers, gymnasts, athletes, champions who need a body always ready
2) To those who prefer to prevent osteoporosis rather than suffer from it
3) In people with musculoskeletal problems such as lordosis, kyphosis, scoliosis
4) For those who suffer from chronic pain and strained or operated joints such as intervertebral disc herniation, spinal fusion, cervical syndrome, disc disease, meniscus, back pain, sciatica, chondropathy, injuries, tendinitis
5) In people with multiple sclerosis, chronic respiratory lung disease, heart patients, cancer patients
6) To the elderly, pregnant women, the elderly and teenagers who need exercise and care
7) To those who work with the mind
8) For those who avoid crowded classes, but prefer personalized training
9) To people who are looking for an alternative way of training, so that the exercise is and becomes more than physical

Joseph Hubertus Pilates

JHPilates was born in Germany in 1880. As a child he suffered from asthma, rickets and rheumatic fever. Reasons that led him to invent a method of rehabilitation initially for himself. In 1912 he went to England where he taught self-defense to Scotland Yard police officers.

Two years later, in 1914, he was confined to a camp and there he developed his method, with the result that his fellow prisoners were spared the 1918 flu epidemic that killed thousands in Britain alone. After the end of the war he returns to Germany where he collaborates with all the dance pioneers of that time such as Rudolf Von Laban and works as an instructor for the Hamburg police force.

In 1923 he went to New York where he built his own studio together with his wife Clara. He died aged 87 in 1967.