Purrlates event at KitTea Cafe in San Francisco

Purrlates

We started our first Purrlates website and YouTube channel during the Covid pandemic in 2020. After the shutdown in San Francisco ended, we started 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!

Learn more about Purrlates
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

You may notice that when you get on your exercise mat, your cat or dog will want to join you. People have always been inspired by the way animals stretch, play, and run. Joseph Pilates mentions his admiration of cats several times in his book "Return to Life Through Contrology", written in 1945. In the following quote he specifically mentions the mother cat.

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!

Very true Mr. Pilates! What an excellent observation. In fact, Archie the cat was the inspiration for Purrlates. Whenever his lady would get on the mat to film Pilates exercises, he would take over the mat. As if to say, move over lady! I'm the real expert here! Thus, Purrlates was born during the Covid-19 shutdown in 2019.

Group of people sitting on mats surrounded by cats.
Purrlates event at KitTea Cafe in San Francisco 2023.

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.

Events

Soufflé cheesecake jelly croissant tootsie roll. Bonbon pastry danish chupa chups carrot cake donut icing pudding muffin.

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

More about Pilates

Brownie jelly cupcake sweet sesame snaps croissant candy canes. Danish wafer jujubes gummies candy cake.

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