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Our Name
“Practice your exercises diligently with the fixed and unalterable determination that you will permit nothing else to sway you …, Decide to remain true to yourself!”
~Joseph H. Pilates
Joe’s Place-True Pilates was born on Cape Cod in 2001 as a part of Hands-On Health, our business offering Pilates, Massage, Wellness Coaching, and Personal Training. Alongside these other services, our Pilates business began with a few Pilates mat classes, and a small, private space with one Pilates reformer. At that time, there were few studios or clubs on Cape Cod that were offering any kind of Pilates mat classes, with none offering authentic Pilates training – and no one in the area offering Pilates reformer training. It seemed fine to us then, and for awhile, to simply use our name Hands-On Health to represent all of our services, including our Pilates studio.
Our clientele grew quickly and steadily and fostered the dream to develop a true “New York City” Pilates studio right here on the Cape. We quickly became Cape Cod’s only fully-equipped classical studio. Completely equipped with Gratz-manufactured apparatus – including multiple reformers, Cadillac, barrels, chairs, tower units, pedi-pole, foot corrector, arm weights, magic circles and more - we are uniquely able to offer our clients the complete, True Pilates system of exercise.
Right now Pilates is like the wild west. There is a land grab going on, with teachers from various backgrounds, and very different levels of training and practical experience trying to claim part of the territory. And Cape Cod has become part of the rush. Well, if this is indeed the west, then we are the straight shooters who want to help lay down the law about what Pilates should be – following the authentic teachings of Joseph Pilates, as passed on to us by his protégé Romana Kryzanowska, her daughter Sari, and her granddaughter Daria. These are our teachers, and we like to think of them as our own Wyatt Earp Gang.
Pilates should be safe. It should be effective. It is a classic, tried and true method that should not be diluted or changed. It should be what Joseph Pilates taught...after all we name this exercise program after him. That's what you will find here at Joe’s Place – a True Pilates Studio, with instructors who are dedicated to continuing the original teachings of Joseph H. Pilates.
In 2006, we realized that it was time to distinguish what we provide from what other Pilates studios on Cape Cod may offer. So in tribute to "Joe" Pilates and his life-changing system of exercise, and to our teachers and mentors at True Pilates New York, the Pilates studio at Hands-On Health took on its new name. It is a name we are proud of, and hope you will be proud to be a part of: Joe’s Place-True Pilates!