WHAT IS PILATES?

BENEFITS TO YOUR BODY

The benefits of Pilates can be far reaching, while changing the body. Pilates will make you fit and strong. It slims the muscle, developing a long, lean look, rather than bulk. It creates a solid, central support system for the body's core. It can improve your performance in sports and everyday activities.

ENERGIZING EXERCISE

Pilates combines mat exercises with variations on these exercises in use with equipment. Pilates emphasizes flowing movements: you take each movement only as far as you can while maintaining your center. Then you move on to the next movement, performing each just a few times (three, five or eight). There is no boring repetition.

Exercise is more interesting when your mind and body are completely engaged. During your personalized hour-long lesson, you will focus on Centering, Control, Precision, Flowing Motion and Breathing. At the end of your session you should feel a powerful sense of well-being and confidence and feel completely decompressed.

EQUIPMENT / APPARATUS

Pilates incorporates mat exercises as well as equipment, including the Reformer, Cadillac, Wunda Chair and the Barrel, all created by Pilates himself. These devices help "close the chain" imparting spatial awareness of the body to the mind and helping to establish the body's central support system more quickly than mat exercises alone.

"If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old; if it is completely flexible at 60, you are young."

- Joseph Pilates

YOUR FIRST LESSON

You begin a lesson lying down supline (on your back) to help establish a neutral pelvis and spine. Then, using several pieces of Pilates equipment, you will sequentially layer exercises into the body, while maintaining your center. The result is calming, strengthening mind-body integration.

PRICE

Introductory lesson: $65
One-hour private lesson: $75
Monthly packaged lessons: $70 (purchase how many workouts you plan on taking in one month)
Duet (semi-private): $45 ea.
*Available after 3+ private lessons (Level II) depending on prior experience

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ABOUT JOSEPH PILATES

Born in Dusseldorf, Germany in 1880, Joseph Pilates was a sickly child. He studied yoga, martial arts, boxing and gymnastics to build strength and health.

Pilates developed his own methods while interred in England during World War I, later training British detectives, the Hamburg police and the German army. In the 1920's, Pilates and his wife Clara set up the first Pilates studios in New York.

During the 1920's, '30s and '40s, the New York dance community embraced the Pilates method, with George Ballanchine and Martha Graham sending dancers to his gym for injury prevention and rehabilitation.

Today, Pilates' work continues to make a revolutionary impact on the world of exercise, offering a positive mind-body solution for those seeking a different kind of fitness.

ABOUT MALIA MAZZEI AND PILATES STUDIO B

Pilates inspired her to take fitness "to the next level". In 2001, she began her study of pilates through an intensive Level V certification course under Gail Anderson, instructor and owner of Balance Within Movement Studio, Redmond, WA. Malia holds a B.S. degree in exercise and an ACE (American Council of Exercise) certification. She also maintains ongoing education and certification programs.

Pilates has been the key for relieving years of low back pain. After competitive bodybuilding from 1994-97, she found that Pilates offered her a new challenge, easing joint stress and improving body balance at a stronger and deeper level. This experience has so transformed her beliefs about fitness that she decided to open her own studio, Pilates Studio B.

PILATES STUDIO B