PILATES KC

Modern Body Contrology was conceptualized in the fall of 1990 when Barbara Gerson first introduced David Mooney to Pilates. Barbara, very active in the Kansas City community, had been traveling to New York many times a year to meet with Sylvia Waters, Judith Jamison, and others to help establish the Friends of Ailey outreach program in Kansas City. While in New York City, Barbara began taking Pilates lessons with Romana Kryzanowska. Falling in love with the system, Barbara began trying to find the correct individual to train with Romana, become certified, and bring Pilates to Kansas City. David Alan Mooney would become that individual... Joseph Hubertus Pilates was born in 1880 of Greek parentage near Dusseldorf, Germany. As a sickly child, he had studied many different forms of exercise, including yoga, martial arts, Zen, Greco-Roman regimes, boxing, wrestling, and gymnastics. Through his own efforts, Pilates became so well developed by the age of fourteen that he was asked to pose..

Primary location: Overland Park United States