Podcast
Body Conversations®
Hosted by Joan Breibart · EN
Joan Breibart is a New York-based inventor who holds nine patents, has authored five books, and edited 20 titles. She is also the person who re-launched the Pilates Method in 1991 and made it a household name in a decade. This podcast is called Body Conversations because it uses the body to view political and cultural trends.
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Protein, Glorious Protein
4w ago00:20:06Tap to summarizeThe obsession over "getting enough protein" is just another wellness fad aimed at getting people to consume more food. Listen to Joan Breibart discuss. _____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Full Circle with Cindy Crawford
Apr 2900:20:30Tap to summarizeRecorded this on Nov 15th, but then didn’t post it. It’s even more relevant on April 29, 2026, about the cycles in exercise and branding. Guess what? Callanetics and calisthenics are both coming back!_____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →The Pilates Reformer is the Worst Apparatus for Group Exercise
Jan 2800:26:29Tap to summarizeJoan Breibart of PhysicalMind Institute discusses why the Pilates Reformer is the worst possible apparatus for group exercise and why there is no such thing as classical and contemporary Pilates. _____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Wellness Culture Featuring Comedian Tori Piskin
Oct 1601:01:27Tap to summarizeJoan Breibart talks with Comedian Tori Piskin about “wellness” and what this means for exercise, diet, fitness and nutrition in the time of Ozempic. Both are long time Pilates Clients, but Tori, because of her age (34), is what is commonly known as a Wellness Bitch while Joan (age 84) is a Natural Eater just like Joe Pilates._____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →More Pilates Please
Sep 2200:20:15Tap to summarizeDiscussion about all the Reformer Franchises, how the Pilates Industry is changing, whatever happened to individual sessions, does anyone even understand tensegrity, and are these changes going to keep growing our beloved Method? _____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Bye Bye MOTR®
Aug 2700:12:49Tap to summarizeWhy is innovation ignored in the "wellness" space? Trainers are typically afraid to take a chance. They fear upsetting their clients because they never really why someone hires them. They do know that at any minute any "devoted" client may leave without any explanation. _____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Japanese Walking Miracle
Aug 400:14:58Tap to summarizeIf you are listening to this podcast then please watch a real live Japanese person, YUU Fujita, Creative Director of the PhysicalMind Institute, in the attached video. BRANDING. NOT SCIENCE and how are your feet?? Flat? Or a nice arch? And how much extra weight are you toting along too. EVERYTHING can Work. But Maybe nothighn DOES. It is up to you to figure it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnXiU3hcHrU_____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Contemporary Classical Original Contrology. What do these names mean? Why are teachers using only the first TWO?
Jul 3100:21:45Tap to summarizeListen to Joan Breibart who has been DOING Pilates for 60 years and doing it professionally since April 1991 and who has met or been in a workshop or as a client with an Elder or “master” 2nd Generation— a lineage deal she invented 1993. Why listen? She explains why EVERYONE today is Confused about Pilates. Or Pilots or Pilaadees or whatever it was called only 30 years ago when the name was unknown and unpronounceable and worse— it recalled Pontius Pilate!! Forget the labels. Forget mentoring. Start Thinking like JOE. He was a Big Thinker—not a onesie twosie guy. _____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Safe Spaces
Jun 1300:24:00Tap to summarizeTen examples of how our branding obsession has ruined our minds—and our bodies too. Well, it's time—our 250th anniversary is next year. Bye bye MAGA and the American Dream. No one ever promised you a rose garden. _____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
Transcribe →Eating Clean & Super Foods, etc.
May 21, 202500:18:43Tap to summarizeMORE Branding. More avoidance of HOW MUCH you put in your mouth. More confusion. Matcha Tea is now a super food even though you mostly drink it. Be warned. Branding not content. More ways to identify yourself you seem to be going with the right trends._____Follow PhysicalMind Institute on Instagram or Facebook and subscribe to our newsletter.Visit the PhysicalMind Institute shop.
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