What It Was Like to Learn from Joseph Pilates [Zoom]

About this episode

Joy interviews John Howard Steel and Ken Endelman about their experiences training with Joseph Pilates in New York.

In this Pilates history episode, Joy interviews John Howard Steel, author of Caged Lion, and Ken Endelman, founder and CEO of Balanced Body, for a rare firsthand telling of what it was like to train directly with Joseph Pilates, the creator of Pilates, in New York. John recounts the atmosphere of Joseph Pilates’ original studio, Joe’s focused teaching methods and classical Pilates training approach, and the principle he repeated again and again: “never stop moving.” You’ll hear behind-the-sc...

People in this episode

Host: Joy

Guests: John Howard Steel, Ken Endelman

Topics covered

• Pilates history
• Joseph Pilates
• classical training
• fitness education
• movement principles

Keywords

• Pilates
• Joseph Pilates
• fitness
• training
• Caged Lion
• Balanced Body
• movement

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Balanced Body

Books & works: Caged Lion

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