Pilates and Cats!

The Purrfect Combination

We started our Purrlates website and YouTube channel during the Covid pandemic in 2020. After the shutdown in San Francisco ended, we began teaching Purrlates mat classes at KitTea Cafe. An inclusive, all-level mat class that also raised money for the purrmanent residents at the cafe. Cats love it when you are down on the floor in their territory!

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Contrology was conceived to limber and stretch muscles and ligaments so that your body will be as supple as that of a cat.
— Joseph Pilates, Return to Life Through Contrology

People have always been inspired by the way animals stretch, play, and run. Joseph Pilates mentions cats several times in his book "Return to Life Through Contrology", written in 1945.

How much fun can we have simply by watching the animal mother especially of the cat family, giving a lesson in physical culture to her offspring? What a lesson she can teach us!

Archie the cat was the inspiration for Purrlates during the Covid-19 shutdown in 2019.

Group of people sitting on mats surrounded by cats.
Archie getting ready to do his stretches on the mat.

Group of people sitting on mats surrounded by cats.
Purrlates event at KitTea Cafe in San Francisco 2023.
Purrlates attendees preparing for mat class at KitTea Cafe.
Cats and people preparing for mat class.

Benefits of Purrlates

Learn more about the health benefits of exercising and spending time with cats.

Black and white tuxedo cat laying on a blue exercise mat.
Archie relaxing on his mat after stretches.
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Events

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People standing behind blue yoga mats mingling with cats.
Getting ready for a Purrlates event at KitTea Cafe!
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More about Pilates

A system of mat and equipment exercises that strengthen your body and mind.

Group of people sitting on equipment at a Pilates studio.
Joseph Pilates also called his method Contrology.
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