Mary Bowen Timeline

1930

Born Mary Bowen on January 19, 1930.

1959

Began studying with Joseph Pilates.

1971

Began psychoanalytic practice.

1975

Started teaching the Pilates Method. Set up two rooms behind her analytic office - Your Own Gym.

1981

Moved studio into a reconstituted department store called Thrones. Your Own Gym was on the top floor and had two massage rooms, two saunas, two large dressing rooms, and a staff of teachers.

1995

Started to merge psychoanalysis and Pilates during sessions.

2001

Named her approach Pilates Plus Psyche.

2006

The Thrones building was sold to developers.

2008

Inducted in to the Cambridge Who's Who for Excellence for Pilates Plus Psyche.