About Pilates Vita

“VITA” means “LIFE” in Italian. Joseph Pilates wanted to bring people back to life, to a healthy and balanced life. That is our goal as well: find in your core the center of strength and in your mind the happiness of your life.

Our mission at Pilates Vita is to teach our clients all about their bodies and how they can easily follow the eight key principles of Joseph Pilates: Centering, Control, Concentration, Coordination, Breath, Balance, Flow, and Precision.  The goal within these exercises is to achieve each of those principles. As the body gains strength & stretch through practice and repetition, you will learn to focus mentally and execute moves no matter how difficult it looks in the beginning.

 We will achieve this by offering the highest quality of the authentic Pilates method, through teachers who care about each student’s mind and body. By maintaining a positive, friendly, calm, clean and beautiful atmosphere, we can definitely be successful in all of our programs develop to each client on the group or into private sessions.

About Patricia Robinson, Owner

I’m a certified Pilates instructor and a Pilates Method Alliance member, with extensive training in both Classic & Contemporary Pilates. I’m originally from Rio de Janeiro Brazil, where I studied dance, the arts, journalism and later physical therapy in USA.

Through my years in these fields, I developed a passion for body movement, fitness, nutrition and natural cures. I then took an extensive educational program in Holistic Body Healing Therapy. This work has changed my life in many ways.

The introduction of Pilates into my life, complemented my existing knowledge and experiences related to healing the body and fitness at the same time. For me, Pilates is a healing process, a workout and most importantly, a pleasure of helping people to connect better with their body & mind. Giving to everyone the fluid feeling of the conscious of their movements thru Pilates.

In 2000 in Rio, I had my first contact with the Pilates Method and for 20 years since then, it became my life. In 2002, when I first moved to the US in Manhattan, I practiced in 3 different studios.

I was fortunate to learn from two wonderful Master teachers who were directly certified by Joseph Pilates himself. These first-generation teachers gave me the passion to become a master teacher and also to carrie the legacy & privilege of learned the pure Pilates Method with the first Pilates generation of the world, what made me humbly thankful.

In 2003, I moved to San Francisco where I continued my Pilates training, and in 2006 after moving to Scottsdale, Arizona, I decided to dedicate my life full time to Pilates and Physical Therapy.

I opened my first Pilates Vita studio in Denver, Colorado, where I lived for 8 years teaching pilates everyday. There I not only had the pleasure of teaching my clients, but also started my own Pilates Certification program for teacher trainees. I called them my kids. I trained some amazing teachers who continue to spread the seeds of their knowledge with the same passion that I helped them. They are spreading the seeds of “ The Conscious of Movement thru Pilates”. They are continuing the Legacy in the correct and ethical ways as Joseph Pilates brought to us in his Method “Contrology “ When you control your body instead of your body controls you.

Over the last 4 years I spent developing an amazing Pilates Retreat on the beautiful Dutch & French Caribbean island of St. Maarten & St Barth. There I was fortunate to work with clients from all over the world speaking & teaching in 4 different languages. Plus From there I made some incredible lifelong friends around the globe.  I’m so grateful for this experience as well.

At the retreat I created some videos and workshops introducing new Pilates exercises for specific injuries, surgeries and other medical issues, such as scoliosis, sciatic, neck, and knee problems, as well as specific programs for Pregnancy & Postpartum.

In 2017 after Hurricane Irma devastated St. Maarten & St. Barth, I decided to leave the islands and repeat my Caribbean retreat intimate studio experience again in cities like San Francisco, London, Paris, and Rome. In 2018 a Pilates Vita wellness Studio opened in San Francisco by one of the most sensitive trainees that I had the pleasure of be teaching.

In September 2019 a new Pilates Vita studio got open in London. Like the one in San Francisco location, this will be the first European boutique studio offering a personalized Pilates & holistic wellness practice in a very private space. Pilates sessions will be only to 1 to 4 clients per session, with a very personalized instruction and physical therapy guidance even in a group setting. 

I’m a true believer in the Pilates Method, combined with holistic & natural healing what I have been practicing for 2 decades. It has had such a positive impact on my body, mind and life as in the life of the ones that had the privilege to touch with my work.

I believe we start to die at the day that we think we know everything. So for me the science of body movement is an infinite world of continuous learning. I keep increasing my studies and knowledge to find new ideas for my courses that will help me develop future generations of great teachers every day. During this time of the body movement field I had develop and trained several teacher around the globe with my own Method inside of Pilates world. What I call:

“CONSCIENCE OF MOVEMENT THRU PILATES” My goal on my method is to teach my client to understand their bodies movement in class, and also to teach them to be conscious of their body movements during the daily life when they simply moving wherever they are.

Whether this is your initial introduction to Pilates, or you have already experienced the joy of practice, I would greatly enjoy being your teacher in this life-changing journey of body movement reeducation. As Joseph Pilates would say: “Pilates will bring you back to life!”

Welcome back to life with the “Conscious of your Movements at Pilates Vita“ in USA & Europe