Founder & Lead Instructor
During her international career as a professional ballet dancer, Fiorella discovered Pilates through both training and recovery — an experience that ultimately led her to study the Classical method in depth.
Co-Founder & Pilates Instructor
Years of high-level competitive volleyball gave Camila a strong instinct for strength, coordination and control — a physical foundation that later found a new language in Classical Pilates.
Our commitment to authentic Pilates is backed by prestigious certifications.
Advanced certification from the prestigious Instituto Randazzo Pilates Argentina (IRPA), founded and directed by Federico Randazzo. Specializing in authentic Classical Pilates methodology.
Official German Pilates Association certification, ensuring highest standards in Pilates education and practice throughout Germany.
Contrology is the name Joseph "Joe" Pilates gave to his Method: a complete system of movement built around the conscious coordination of body, mind and spirit.
His intention was never simply to create a series of exercises or a workout performed on specialised equipment. He conceived Contrology as an education for life—a way to develop the body uniformly, bring movement under conscious control and restore the natural relationship between body and mind. The work inside the studio was ultimately intended to prepare each person to move through everyday life with greater strength, freedom and vitality.
In 1926, Joseph and Clara Pilates opened their studio in New York City, where they taught the Method through Mat work and the apparatus Joseph designed. The Reformer, Cadillac, Chairs, Barrels and smaller apparatus were never intended as separate forms of Pilates. Each one has a specific function within the system, helping the body understand, organise and integrate movement as a whole.
Breath, concentration, centring, control, precision and flow are qualities that have since become widely used to describe the practice. Together, they reflect the attention, intention and dynamic that distinguish Contrology from a collection of isolated exercises.
Today, Pilates exists in many forms. Contemporary approaches may reinterpret the original repertoire, incorporate elements from other movement disciplines or focus primarily on a single apparatus.
Classical Pilates preserves the Method as the complete and interconnected system developed by Joseph and Clara Pilates. Mat and apparatus work together; exercises follow an intentional order and progression, and each piece of equipment prepares, supports or challenges the body for another part of the system. Classical Pilates is therefore not defined by one exercise or one apparatus, but by the relationships that connect the entire body of work.
At Paquita Pilates, choosing the classical path is not about rejecting evolution. It is a commitment to the depth, coherence and intelligence of the original system. Our continuous practice and study allow us to keep the work alive without losing its centre.
