Pilates and Stretching

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Pilates (or the Pilates method) is a series of about 500 exercises inspired by calisthenics, yoga and ballet. Pilates lengthens and stretches all the major muscle groups in the body in a balanced fashion. It improves flexibility, strength, balance and body awareness.

In the 1920s, physical trainer Joseph Pilates introduced Pilates into America as a way to help injured athletes and dancers safely return to exercise and maintain their fitness. Since then, Pilates has been adapted to suit people in the general community.

Pilates can be an aerobic and non-aerobic form of exercise. It requires concentration and focus, because you move your body through precise ranges of motion. Pilates lengthens and stretches all the major muscle groups in your body in a balanced fashion. It requires concentration in finding a centre point to control your body through movement. Each exercise has a prescribed placement, rhythm and breathing pattern.

The Pilates method is taught to suit each person and exercises are regularly re-evaluated to ensure they are appropriate for that person. Due to the individual attention, this method can suit everybody from elite athletes to people with limited mobility, pregnant women and people with low fitness levels.

The health benefits of Pilates include:
  • improved flexibility
  • increased muscle strength and tone, particularly of your abdominal muscles, lower back, hips and buttocks (the ‘core muscles’ of your body)
  • balanced muscular strength on both sides of your body
  • enhanced muscular control of your back and limbs
  • improved stabilisation of your spine
  • improved posture
  • rehabilitation or prevention of injuries related to muscle imbalances
  • improved physical coordination and balance
  • relaxation of your shoulders, neck and upper back
  • safe rehabilitation of joint and spinal injuries
  • prevention of musculoskeletal injuries
  • increased lung capacity and circulation through deep breathing
  • improved concentration
  • increased body awareness
  • Stress management and relaxation.

As you enter our Jupiter Massage & Pilates facility you immediately feel the natural healing energy surrounding your body and mind.

Whether you are here for a relaxing Massage, Stretching Therapy or Pilates, you know Jupiter Massage & Pilates is the one place that will make you feel healthy, young, and refreshed all at the same time.

Our therapeutic Massage and Stretching therapy techniques show immediate results for healing ligament, muscle, and tendon injuries and other physical disorders. Our unique methods release tension and restore proper positioning of joints, diminishing or eliminating inflammation, pain, and physical discomfort.

Our facility has what you need to improve your daily life. Jupiter Massage & Pilates has been serving the Palm Beach County area for 13 years. We hope you will visit us soon for all your Massage Therapy & Pilates needs.


Jupiter Massage & Pilates 

125 W. Indiantown Rd, Suite #102 

Jupiter, FL 33458 


PHONE: 561-529-2093 (CALL OR TEXT)


EMAIL: Jupitermassage@gmail.com


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