Body Conversations®
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. Visit physicalmindinstitute.com or 80bites.com to learn more.
Episodes
Get ready for Workshops to proliferate. Pilates and Somatic Movement gurus are gearing up to solicit you and your money. Yes we need more tools. No we won't find them in boring complicated workshops.
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This podcast features Joan Breibart’s thoughts on Tracey Mallett’s recent Instagram post discussing the three styles of Pilates, which you can watch here: https://www.instagram.com/p/DbrMBRURRl9/?hl=en
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In this episode, Joan Breibart discusses her concerns about Anthony Fauci, how obesity in America contributed to excess deaths during COVID-19, and why she believes his department concealed the extent of the problem.
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Listen to Joan Breibart discuss the history of Pilates and if it currently constitutes a "fad". For further analysis please read her latest substack here.
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The obsession over "getting enough protein" is just another wellness fad aimed at getting people to consume more food. Listen to Joan Breibart discuss.
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Recorded 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!
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Joan 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.
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Joan 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.
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Discussion 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?
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Why 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.
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If 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
Listen 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 ...
Ten 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.
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MORE 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.
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Somatic exercises which no one has even heard of are going mainstream according to John Wiley Publishers who added this title to their DUMMIES Series. To be included in this brand, the subject has to be of interest to everyone. For so many reason - not the least of which is America's penchant for masochism - it is unlikely we will all turn inward and become gentle.
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What a mouthful oh sorry it's a pun when we can't get rid of the idea that we can torch calories by some kind of moving around. Of course 80Bites has always had information about NEAT. But we do it because it's good to change position and it helps your circulation because we know that torching calories when it's hormones is really silly forget calories hormones rule anyway we'll talk about all of this and what the very frightened e...
Discussion on how branding foods lads to gainign weight not losing it. Constant telling us what to eat nd never talking about hwo much. Why using the 80Bites app is so revealing and for some frightening unless they are on Ozempic and their consumption has dropped by 25% at least.
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Now that 80Bites is gaining an audience, it's really interesting to hear people's reactions. Some think 80 bites means the number of bites you take in one meal, while others believe it refers to 80 chews. It’s all part of the shift from what you eat to how much.
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As a female who is 84 years old, I'm deluged with invitations to talk at "Women's Empowerment" conferences to talk to young women about how they can succeed at becoming an entrepreneur. I decline because I'm what I like to think of as a "reluctant entrepreneur".
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In this episode of Body Conversations, Joan Breibart discusses why consumers are so easily suckered into doing things for their bodies that are obviously ineffective—and why, even after hundreds of articles have exposed this marketing concept as unrelated to how many steps you should take a day, they continue to parrot those ideas.
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