Pilates is a healing form of exercise.

Anyone, in any shape, at any age, can benefit from Pilates. It is simultaneously gentle and intense. Pilates sculpts bodies, improves posture and balance, increases flexibility, elasticity, and coordination, and allows one to achieve ultimate function in movement and in life.

Pilates is therapeutic: it can help prevent and control chronic pain, back pain, osteoporosis, urinary incontinence, and psychological and physiological tension and stress. Pilates can help people retain a fluid quality of movement throughout their life span, preventing the loss of function and motion that so frequently accompanies aging.

Pilates gets your mind in tune with your body. By emphasizing proper breathing, correct spinal and pelvic alignment, and complete concentration on smooth, flowing movement, you become acutely aware of how your body feels, where it is in space, and how to control its movement. Pilates teaches proper breathing, which not only allows you to execute movements with maximum power and efficiency, but also helps reduce tension and stress in the neck and shoulder areas.

The Pilates method is a form of resistance training, which utilizes springs, elastic bands, and one’s own body weight to lengthen and strengthen muscles (as opposed to traditional weight lifting, which builds bulk and can limit flexibility). Pilates is weight-bearing exercise for the entire body. While Pilates can be aerobic exercise when performed at a high level, it is traditionally considered non-aerobic for beginners.

In conventional workouts, weak muscles tend to get weaker and strong muscles tend to get stronger. The result is muscular imbalance - a primary cause of injury and chronic pain. Pilates conditions the whole body, even the ankles and feet. No muscle group is over trained or under trained. The result is that your entire musculature is evenly balanced and conditioned, helping you enjoy daily activities and sports with greater ease and less chance of injury.


Learn efficient patterns of motion: Pilates exercises train several muscle groups at once in smooth, continuous movements. By developing proper technique, you can actually re-train your body to move in safer, more efficient patterns of motion - invaluable for injury recovery, sports performance, good posture and optimal health. Posture, core stabilization, mental focus, alignment, grace, fluidity, and a balance of strength and flexibility are among the many elements this workout demands and delivers.

Be confident and safe: No other exercise system is so gentle to your body while giving it a challenging workout. Many of the exercises are performed in reclining or sitting positions, and most are low impact and partially weight bearing. Pilates is so safe, it is used in physical therapy facilities to rehabilitate injuries.

And be challenged: Pilates is an extremely flexible exercise system. Modifications to the exercises allow for many levels of difficulty ranging from beginning to advanced. Get the workout that best suits you now, and increase the intensity as your body conditioning improves.

Frequently asked questions:

How long does it take to see results?

There is an often-quoted saying in the pilates world…”within ten sessions you feel different, within twenty sessions you look different, and by thirty sessions, you will have a whole new body”. One caveat: consistency is everything. Pilates is a mind-body form of exercise. As your body develops muscle memory, you will see greater improvement in physique and function.
    

Can I get results if I only come once a week?

That depends on what kind of results you are looking for. Once a week is good for people who are interested in one serious day of ab work a week, or having a deep and profound stretch once a week, and slowly increasing their flexibility. Once a week will not dramatically reshape or recondition your body, but it will improve your flexibility and your coordination over time. Twice a week makes a big difference in the time in which you see results, so we encourage that.

What does it mean to strengthen core muscles?

Core musculature includes your abdominal muscles, respiratory muscles, back muscles and pelvic floor muscles – in short, all of the muscles throughout the torso. Many people confuse core body strength with abdominal muscle strength. True core muscle strengthening treats the body as a whole, improving the entire body’s functioning instead of focusing on a single area.

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