The Pilates method is an exercise movement technique which trains the practitioners to integrate the use of mind and body. Through this integration, Pilates creates positive overall physical benefits, both for mind and body.

With programs designed for your particular needs, result can happen in just a few sessions. If you have an injury, each exercise can be modified for safe rehabilitation and future injury prevention.

Our programs can provide a challenging workout for all levels of fitness, from beginner to professional athlete. Imagine an exercise program you look forward to that leaves you feeling refreshed, alert, and alive. Pilates can do much for your overall health and fitness level.

Workouts are designed to:

• Improve Posture, Balance and Coordination
• Strengthen Back and Abdominal Muscles
• Increase Flexibility
• Restore Natural Posture
• Improve Athletic Performance
• Rehabilitate and Prevent Injuries
• Tone Muscles
• Elevate and Energize the Spirit

The Main Principles of Pilates

• Centering
  In Pilates, all movements originate from the center of the body, located in the pelvis just below the navel. Anatomically, our center connects several large muscle groups: transverse abdominals, pelvic floor, diaphragm, and the multifidus muscles. From our center, we support our spine and major organs, strengthen the back, and improve alignment and posture.

• Control
  The mind-body connection is at the very core of Pilates. The key to the coordination of mind and body is concentration. In this discipline, the focus is on careful, precise, and slow foundation work. Before performing a movement, you organize your thoughts to encourage full-body awareness. During each movement, you stay aware, not only of the moving body part, but also to what the rest of body is doing. With this level of focus, exercise becomes interesting and yields results very quickly.

• Breathing
  In Pilates, you inhale through the nose, taking oxygen into the lower lungs, expanding the ribs wide and into the back. You exhale through the mouth by starting in the lower lungs, as if fogging up a mirror, until all the breath is out. Conscious breathing assists movement and delivers oxygen directly to the muscles being used.

• Flow
  Dynamic, fluid movement makes Pilates different from other exercise techniques. Smoothness and fluidity go hand and hand to form connections between each movement. An exercise should begin and end at a specific place, with a seamless middle of precise motion emphasizing grace and control.