Class Descriptions
Pilates Rehab - Beginner
Beginner/All - For anyone who wants to start a low impact pilates-based exercise regime, this class will show you how to alleviate chronic aches and pains while discovering freer movement. Rotation and length of the spine will be emphasized. You'll learn easy, pain-free ways to improve your flexibility and develop a greater range of movement, as well as how to engage your pelvic floor for greater core strength and stability. This class is the perfect choice for absolute beginners who want to learn the basics or for anyone who needs to move slowly and thoughtfully due to chronic pain, or while recovering from injury.
Pilates - Beginner
Beginner - Learn the core foundations of pilates. This class is structured for new pilates students, or those who are interested in refining their movement. You'll learn the difference between neutral spine and imprint, proper pilates breathing, ribcage placement, neck placement and pelvic alignment. Mastering these basics to your practice will ensure you perform each exercise properly and have a clear understanding of muscle engagement. You'll learn to work your body in all planes of movement, and will master the fundamental exercises that you need in order to improve your practice over time. Some exercises you'll do in this class include single leg stretch, scissors, figure 4 resistive stretching and important prep exercises for teasers, plank, pushups and side plank. This class will teach you proper biomechanics so that as you grow in your practice you'll know how to protect your back, use pilates breathing to intensify each exercise, and how to create opposition in your body.
Pilates - Intermediate
Intermediate - If you have mastered the fundamentals of pilates alignment, breathing and how to focus on engaging specific muscle groups, then it is time for you to move on to become an Intermediate Level pilates student. At the Intermediate class level you should be able to create opposition in your body, and start adding "up levels" to each exercise to challenge your core strength, mobility and stability. In this class you'll practice Intermediate exercises such as double leg stretch, 1-legged bridge work, side kicks, push ups, side planks, and back extension. A class that targets sculpting the lower body systematically using the pilates repertoire. Reshape your waistline, contour your legs, and gain a firmer rear all in one intense mat workout. Be ready to feel a burn!
Pilates - Advanced
Advanced - This class is designed for pilates students and athletes who are ready to move beyond the Intermediate class level and want a real mind/body challenge. At the Advanced level you should have a clear understanding of how to engage targeted muscle groups and enough strength, balance and flexibility to work the muscles to the point of fatigue and flow easily from one exercise to the next. The Advanced student has mastered the mind/body connection, and understands how to resist both ways in each exercise. Some exercises you'll do in this class include corkscrew, open leg rocker, jackknife, control balance and neck pull. We will work on the efficiency of muscles, balance, and focus. Every exercise will work towards fatiguing muscle groups to build endurance. This is a flowing series of slow, methodical, intense exercises to fast dynamic movement. Expect to sweat and be open to try new things.
Pilates/Yoga Flow - Beginner
Yoga and pilates are made for each other! Traditional Pilates exercises will be mixed with the deep stretches and strengthening poses from yoga. This class is ideal for Pilates lovers who want relief from chronic pain in their hamstrings, hips, back and shoulders.
Core Yoga- All Levels
All - This class brings together breath awareness, muscle activation and invigorating postures (asanas) that focus on the powerhouse muscles of the core. You will practice pranayama (breathwork) and core connection in every pose, learning how to flow from the center out.
Exhale Pilates - All Levels
All - Feeling overwhelmed and run down? Experience the power of breath while opening the body through passive and resistive stretching. You will find your body slowly unwinding and lengthening while building core integration. You will feel relaxed and revitalized by the end of class.
Pilates/Yoga Sculpt- Intermediate
All - This class is designed to be a total body workout sculpting every major muscle group by combining light weights with traditional yoga postures and core exercises. The routine flows from one pose to the next while working toward total mind/body harmony. This class includes a vigorous lunge series with extended standing balance and floor stretch moves, and will burn fat, while lengthening the muscles for a more lean physique. This workout is the perfect complement to your regular yoga or pilates practice!
Pilates Sculpt - All Levels
All - In this boot camp styled class we will combine free weights, personal training and traditional Pilates body-sculpting exercises in a fast-paced class. This class will work those key muscle groups to the point of fatigue and then lengthen and stretch those muscle groups to give you the kind of body that is strong and contoured, yet long and lean.
"Happy Feet" Core and Lower Body - All Levels
Beginner/Intermediate - This is a beginner/all level class where you'll engage your core muscles for greater stability and improving postural alignment...with a special focus on your feet and lower body. You'll work on balance, strengthening feet and ankles, and practice Qigong foot release work to keep your twinkle toes happy!
Reformer Class - All Levels
All - For a true test to your core, nothing works better than the Pilates Reformer. These semi-private classes with an emphasis on rhythmic, flowing movements will increase strength, flexibility and stamina while also improving alignment, balance, coordination and tone. The result? A uniformly developed body with strong back and abdominal muscles. The Reformer’s adjustable springs allow for progressive resistance, which helps to lengthen and strengthen the muscles rather than building bulk. Although some of these exercises may seem simple - the effects go deep, and you'll engage muscles you never knew you had and get great results FAST.
Booty Camp - All Levels
All - "Booty Camp" is a special 6-week circuit training, get-a-jump-on-your-beach-body workshop. In each one-hour session you'll do intensive cardio, pilates exercises on the mat and various equipment, balance work, weight lifting and elastic resistance training. We'll set up 3 stations for each circuit, rotating thru them twice for 60-seconds each before moving on to the next group of 3. This kind of circuit training is the most time efficient way to enhance cardiovascular fitness, muscle endurance and fat burning.
Studies show that circuit training helps men and women to achieve their goals and maintain them longer than other forms of exercise or diet. Booty Camp is a full body conditioning program, which will lengthen and strengthen your muscles -- with the added advantage of improving your muscle-to-fat ratio and correcting your posture. Get bootylicious!!!