“We must strive to bring focus, intention, and clarity into our movement and exercise practices in ways that honor the body’s wisdom and the complexity and wholeness of the individual. Through our experience of the body at rest and in motion, we more fully understand our connection as humans and our communication improves.”
Carole Amend, Somatic Movement Educator & Pilates Specialist, 2005
“Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures,
restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.”
Joseph H. Pilates, Return to Life Through Contrology, 1945
Welcome to Bodies Mind®!
...awareness that moves you
Thank you for visiting the Bodies Mind® website! This is your source for learning about and practicing safe and sound physical and mental conditioning techniques for self-care and transformation through movement practice.
Bodies Mind® is owned and operated by Carole Amend, a Somatic Movement Educator with 40 years experience as a Pilates Specialist. Since 1992, she has served clients from all over Marin County & the Bay Area as well as clients and professional students online and at onsite locations.
Studio
Bodies Mind® Studio provides the best in Pilates and Somatic Movement Education for body-mind physical conditioning, chronic pain relief, injury prevention and recovery, and performance excellence, serving clientele of widely varied age, need, and proficiency. Our movement practice is Safe, Sound, and Spontaneous℠! Learn more.
Academy
Bodies Mind® Academy offers an extensive list of Coursework, including our signature Pilates by AIM and Bodies Mind® Somatic Movement Correctives Curricula, presenting a new analysis of the work of J.H.Pilates utilizing the ground-breaking Amend Integrative Model (AIM), thereby advancing the emergent Movement Practice Professions. Learn more.