The First Act of Life...
"Breathing is the first act of life, and the last." One of the most often quoted lines from Joseph Pilates book Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology. During the second week of our "Great Start" program, our Pilates Principle is Breathing. Joseph Pilates had some very interesting and specific thoughts on Breathing. In Return to Life, he wrote "Lazy breathing converts the lungs, figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying, and dead germs a