Basic Pilates
moved well looks better

Pilates excercises with the aim to improve your movement quality and performance. That feels good and increases your joy of life. Clear excercises for coordination make it possible to raise naturally, get taller, look slender and more attractive. Pilates creates a dynamic muscular corset that protects the body like an armament, looks like a bodice, and increases the emotional and sexual potential. Training and activating the deep muscles of the pelvis and the pelvic floor supports the activity of the stomach and the intestines. The excercises stimulate the metabolism in general and the metabolism of oxygen, the lymph drainage and the production of certain hormones responsible for making you feel happy.



Pilates for Dancers
Growing with a trained waist

You are going to learn the basic principles of Pilates and the most important basic excercises. You will be surprised about the advantages of a natural posture and natural position of the pelvis. You will be astonished how thankful your body will respond to this (re-)learning. (Re-)activating the deep muscles in the middle of your body opens the way to the natural flexibility that children have.
This workshop teaches you how you may train your waist and control your training improvements. Clear excercises for increasing your physical performance enable you to start an effective training for improving your movement quality. The aim of this class is increasing your ability to perceive what feels good in your own body. That improves the stability of your posture and your performance. You will experience once again: an upright natural posture increases your ego and your attractivity.



Barbara Mayr
Barbara Mayr is Pilates trainer, laugh therapist, dancer and architect. As an architect she had influence on the planning of wellknown buildings such as Café Gloriette in Schönbrunn and Spiegelwohnturm at the Gasometer in Vienna. Through modern expressive dance she got to know Pilates method. Since she finished her training education at Body Control Pilates in England she has been heading the Pilates Academy in Vienna.