MOVE to align
Based on pilates and dynamic stretching principles these mat classes are designed to balance and align your body for greater mobility, ease of movement and strength. These workouts can be helpful for maintenance, core strength, tone and flexibility and are recommended as part of a regular fitness routine and are good for all ages and fitness levels.
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Live Recorded Pilates with Squishy Ball
This class is set to no music but is a live recorded class of pilates based on spinal movement, stretching and core strengthening. We use a squishy ball as a prop and a mat but otherwise it's all body.
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Active Recovery Week of September 11
This active recovery is designed to stabilize the hips, core and shoulders. Using a mini stability ball this mat based workout uses breath and small movements to draw the body to center and align.
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Pilates Foundations
Using a towel and a mat we explore the basic foundations for Pilates with a focus on the breathing and alignment.
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Beginner Pilates with a Mini Stability Ball
This beginner class uses a small pilates ball to provide a challenge , and stability to the core in some basic pilates moves. The slow pace without music allows for focus and control through the workout.
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Mat Pilates
This mat Pilates class creates tone, balance, strength and flexibility in the body. Using light weights, towels and magic circle this class focuses on breath, control, focus and slow thoughtful movement. Perfect for beginners and with no music this workout truly creates a space for you move with ...
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Mat Pilates Sculpt
Using a magic circle, 2lb ankle weights and a resistance band tone your entire body in this Pilates mat class. This workout has no music but is intended to help connect mind and body and get centered and comfortable in your body.
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Pilates Tone
This Pilates Tone class uses a towel to increase the toning and strengthening and can be done anywhere. Focused from the core these exercises built a mind and body connection and balances the muscles using lengthening and strengthening principles.
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Feel Good Pilates
Head to toe (no equipment required) movement to connect you to your body and feel good. Focus on the movement of the spine, pelvis and ribs with the alignment of the breath gives the muscles, joints and mind balance, alignment and ease.
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Athlete's Post Sport Workout
This hour long class is a mobility and stretch class for athletes post sport that can help to create a balance and mobile body, optimize movement patterns through connections, release common areas of tension and improve performance. Props used optionally include weights, yoga blocks and a pillow....
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22 minutes Pilates
Standing and floor exercises to target the core and spine creating good balance and posture in the body.
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Quick Pilates Arms
A quick blast for the arms with light weights to create tone, balance and strength in the upper body.
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Pilates 52 minutes
This full body workout is based on pilates exercises and the principle of balancing the body. If you are looking for a reset for your body or to stretch and strengthen with a focus on the core this workout is for you. Light weights and a mat are needed.
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17 Minute Pilates
This quick pilates workout will align, tone and strengthen your body while connecting your mind to your movement. Light weights. Mat. Core. Back. Arms.
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Abs + Thighs
This mat workout with a towel, focuses on the core and spine movement to create deep abdominal connection. With the addition of the spine on the thigh work and placement is transformed. This is particularly good for anyone or has trouble with their neck in upper abdominal work.
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Kickstart - The Spine.
Standing spine exercise, back and hip mobility and dynamic stretching. Focused on moving through all of the ranges of the spine with attention to releasing common areas of discomfort.
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Hip Opener
This mat based class will release the muscles around the hip and through the back and knees. Using a combination of dynamic stretching, breathing and mobility work this will leave you hips feeling open and strong.
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20 Minute Pilates Align
This short sequence draws from some of the original mat pilates exercises done with bodyweight. Aligning and strengthening the spine while balancing the areas of focus to leave you feeling challenged but lengthened and more stable.
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Move to Align Mat Arms and Abs
Sculpt the arms and core with this short mat workout focused on tone, balance, alignment and full body strength.
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Gentle Align
Focus on the spine and breath and their relationship to each other in movement. A greater focus on the core, flexion and supine positions.
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Movement Mix
A full body workout using a mix of movement. Pilates for balance, lengthening exercises for flexibility and strength exercises for tone. Using hand weights (2 - 5lbs) and ankle weights (1 - lbs) to build muscle and body weight to lengthen and strength this is sure to leave you feeling muscle grou...
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Mat Movement 1
A workout designed to build balance through pilates foundation with the aid of light weights to increase upper body work while providing stability to the shoulder. This sequence can be a good beginning or reset to build balance for a well moving body,
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Fundamentals
Fundamental exercises prepare the body for more advanced movement but are valuable to create symmetry, body awareness and balance on their own. From the Kathy Grant body of work (taught through Maria Earle) these fundamentals are meant for all levels to reset their body to get more out of advance...
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All About the Spine
This spine focused movement class is to get the back and front and sides of the body to move, strength, find stability and mobilize. Flow and connect to the spine in all of it's range of motion and take the information in to learn about your movement patterns and how your body, mood and stability...
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Mat Movement 2
Exploring some of the classical pilates work with a bit of a twist. Beginning with the fundamentals and taking it into some of the pilates exercises from the original mat workout but adding in some additional exercises for strength and pelvic stability.