Pilates and Yoga both strive to harness strength of the body but have key differences in methodology.  The use of apparatus is the most obvious of difference.  However, there are also differences in the breathing techniques as well as stretching and cueing.  Pilates and Yoga both strive for balanced freedom of movement and complement each other well.  The body needs movement above all.

No.  All of the wood line apparatus are convertible to mats.  Feel free to bring a sealed water bottle.

Joseph Pilates was not a dancer.  He was a boxer, wrestler and gymnast.  The Pilates – Dance connection was by coincidence of lease when Joseph opened his first studio in NY.  Dancers frequented the studio for rehabilitation and cross-training.  They eventually became the first trainees and were given permission to open their own studios carrying on the lineage. Joseph created Pilates (Contrology), as a training regimen with therapeutic results. Dancers have been integral in lineage of the method but Pilates is meant for everyone.