Pilates
What is Pilates?
Pilates is a system of exercise that integrates the entire body through a series of strengthening and stretching movements. It promotes deep muscular strength, overall body tone, flexibility, postural awareness, and efficient body mechanics. Each workout moves the body through flexion, extension, rotation and sidebending, culminating in a sequence of flowing, precise, coordinated movements guided by your breath.
Why practice Pilates?
Exercises are safe yet challenging, because they work the body in proper alignment, balance opposing muscles, and offer endless modifications to support and challenge all abilities. Pilates can be done on the mat or on specialized equipment.
The equipment is spring- and pulley-operated and utilizes gravity and your own body weight. It is low impact on the joints, and helps foster a long, toned physique.
Pilates complements other sports activities — like running, biking, hiking, climbing, and swimming — that tend to work only certain muscle groups and move the body in limited ranges of motion.
Pilates exercises teach awareness of neutral body alignment of the spine, pelvis and joints, and strengthen the deep postural muscles that support this alignment. This helps clients relearn the natural alignment of the body and take functional movements from their sessions out into the world. As a result, clients get not only a better-looking body, but a better-working one too.
Specialty focus
Programs for clients to experience the lasting benefits of Pilates.
Beginning Pilates Equipment
For those new to Pilates, or new to the equipment. We teach the Pilates principles and the beginning repertoire of exercises within a fun and challenging workout.
Intermediate / Advanced Equipment
For those practicing on the reformer and other specialized equipment, ready for the added challenges of choreography and advanced exercises.
Easy Does It Equipment
Geared towards those with chronic postural misalignment and/or chronic pain who want to release tension and relearn neutral postural alignment, with a strong focus on finding new ways to move comfortably.
Postpartum Pilates Equipment
For new moms ready to reconnect to their core muscles and achieve overall tone, strength and flexibility, based on the Women's Center for Fitness Prenatal and Postpartum Fitness Program — plus easy at-home exercises and stretches.
Prenatal Pilates
Get ready for baby with an effective workout that changes to fit your changing body. Stretch and strengthen where your body needs it most, and learn at-home exercises for upper body, buttocks and legs.
Pilates Mat
A mixed-level class of up to six people, with corrections and modifications for each client. Props like the magic circle, foam roller, theraband, hand weights, rotational discs and arcs add assistance or extra challenge.