Atlas Pilates Studio Seattle

Instructor’s Workgroup

cmeffie — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:05:58 +0000

Lori Coleman-Brown will lead a discussion on The Pilates Method, and the traditional Pilates approach to issues that instructors are seeing in their daily work. This two hour session is a great opportunity for professional instructors to to ask questions and share ideas. Participating instructors* build the agenda in the weeks leading up to the event.

Saturday, October 16th, 2010.
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Atlas Pilates Studio
115 Warren Ave N. #108
Seattle, WA 98109
(206)283-2884

Registration is Required.

Special: $39.99 by October 8th, 2010.
$49.99 (plus tax) after October 8th.

Lori Coleman-Brown is a Pilates Teacher of Teachers, trained by Romana Kryzanowska. She has more than 20 years of teaching experience. She holds Masters of Physical Therapy degree from Temple University, and worked in outpatient physical therapy for over 15 years. She co-founded Pilates Seattle International, and served as Co-Director for more than a decade. She also Lori travels the globe training instructors in the Pilates Method, teaching human anatomy, and educating physical therapists on the remarkable benefits of Pilates.

*This workgroup is open to those who have been certified by an accredited Pilates Method teacher training program. Participating instructors are expected to have a comprehensive working knowledge of Pilates exercises and apparatus.

Pilates Instructors’ Workgroup

cmeffie — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 08:51:00 +0000

Led by Lori Coleman-Brown, MPT.

Atlas Pilates Master instructor Lori Coleman-Brown will lead a discussion on The Pilates Method, and the traditional Pilates approach to issues that instructors are seeing in their daily practice. This two hour session is a great opportunity for professional instructors to to ask questions and share ideas. Participating instructors* build the agenda in the weeks leading up to the event.

Saturday, October 16th, 2010.
3:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Atlas Pilates Studio
115 Warren Ave N. #108
Seattle, WA 98109
(206)283-2884

Registration is Required.

$39.99 (plus tax) before October, 2010.
$49.99 (plus tax) after March 21st. 2010.

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Lori Coleman-Brown is a Pilates Teacher of Teachers, trained by Romana Kryzanowska, with over 20 years of teaching experience. She holds Masters of Physical Therapy degree from Temple University, and a BFA in Dance from SUNY Purchase. She is the co-founder Pilates Seattle International and served as Co-Director for more than a decade. She also worked in outpatient physical therapy for over 15 years. Lori travels the globe training instructors in the Pilates Method, teaching human anatomy, and educating physical therapists on the remarkable benefits of Pilates.

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Mat Class Series

cmeffie — Sun, 30 May 2010 19:17:39 +0000

We’re sorry, the current series has already started.

Drop-in Classes Begin October 11th, 2010.
Next Series Begins October 25th, 2010.

Practice intermediate to advanced Pilates Method mat work in our popular Monday night series.

Mondays 6:00-6:45pm
Prepayment of $89.94 plus sales tax is required at time of registration.
Class is limited to six students.
Other conditions may apply.

Pilates Mat Class Series

cmeffie — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:36:52 +0000

Six Weekly Sessions for only $12.99 each!
April 26th through May 31st 2010.

This vigorous 45 minute class is scheduled for 6:00pm Monday evenings. We practice basic Pilates Method mat work. The class is designed and paced for those who have completed our Beginner’s Series or have equivalent experience. And we make sure that it’s challenging for intermediate-level practitioners looking for a great Pilates workout.

Pre-Registration and prepayment of 77.94 plus sales tax is required.
Class size is limited to a maximum of six students.

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Dr. Mark A. Burick

cmeffie — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 05:58:59 +0000

As a chiropractor I am fully aware of how important exercise is to one’s health. I have tried many different types of workouts over the years. The best by far is the training that I receive at Atlas Pilates. They are able to assess how your body moves and give you tools to correct any deficiencies that you may have. I am very grateful to Teresa and Danae for assisting me to do The Big Climb up the 70 story Columbia Center building last Sunday with relative ease. I might add that I also carried my 9 month old little girl. While on the trek up the stairs I kept thinking “use the scoop, use the scoop”. Thank you Atlas Pilates, I look forward to further increasing my “powerhouse”.

Mark A. Burick, D.C.
Seattle, WA
Burick Chiropractic & Nutritional Healing
1904 3rd Avenue, Suite 400
Seattle, WA 98101

Your First Workout is Free

cmeffie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:44:29 +0000

Get great results with your smart new workout routine.

Discover Pilates with private workouts from one of our certified instructors. They’ll guide as you safely regain your natural strength, flexibility and control.

Get on the schedule today and you’ll save over $65.00. Just schedule (and purchase) three Private Pilates sessions, and we’ll start you off by making the first private workout absolutely free. That’s four sessions for the price of three!

New clients only. Non-refundable. Subject to gentle fitness screen.

Contact us to get started.

I feel like I have been given a new life.

cmeffie — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 20:04:24 +0000

I feel like I have been given a new life. In two short years I have gone from unable to walk for more than 15 minutes to running 3 miles per day! I had not been able to run – or even walk – any distance at all for over 30 years, so I was pretty sure it was never going to get better. And then I found Teresa at Atlas Pilates. My posture has improved so much that I’ve had to have my suits altered.

To be completely honest, Teresa often gets way more out of me than I would ever think possible. Some days when I arrive I don’t even want to get started, yet by the time my hour has gone by I am again glad I showed up. I have worked with personal trainers, physical therapists, etc. for many years and never had the personal care at this level. The other day Teresa was so excited about something that I had to ask, and she replied that two years ago when she first started working with me she had envisioned this day would come if we both worked at it. I was stunned that she cared enough about me to actually think about my long-term goals, yet she had not shared them with me as she did not want to over-promise, and instead went about her plan quietly and, obviously, very effectively.

Over the past years I have worked with two other Pilates instructors, both of them certainly well qualified and very nice caring people, but with each of them I came away with either no improvement or worse off and in pain. This never happens with Teresa. My opinion of her work comes from varied experience, and she has earned my admiration for her efforts.

Whatever…I can go on and on about this, but instead offer that if anyone wants to know more they can call me and ask.

Michael

Seeing Progress Outside the Studio

jhcase — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:00:06 +0000

So, the Pilates must be working because I’m getting slower going up hill, not faster. And skating? That really fatigues me.

I know, it seems like a contradiction. Aren’t I doing Pilates to make my life easier? Yes, and no. I’m doing it to make my life easier someday. I’m doing it to make myself stronger now and in the future. And as part of this what I’ve really found is that through Pilates I’m activating muscles that haven’t worked in years. Some of them are muscles that were disconnected during the surgery, but not all. Some are muscles that just stopped working, or worked less, years before the surgery, when I was compensating for pain and discomfort.

Now those muscles are awake again. And, they have to work. Well, I suppose they don’t have to work, but my body wants them to. Anyone who has recovered from a surgery will know this feeling; anyone who has started a new exercise or weight lifting routine will know something similar. You get the burn, that’s undeniable burn. But, with this it’s a little more than that. For me, going for a skate or hiking up a hill and actually using the muscles that haven’t been working, or working correctly, in years goes beyond burn. I get fatigue. I feel like I’m doing twice the work I’m actually doing. But, I also know that the muscle is rebuilding, and that next time I’ll be less fatigued, feel less burn. Keep up this combo of Pilates and life and I actually might be back in my pre-surgery form before too long.

On another note: those exercises on the Cadillac, where I circle my leg in the air, they are actually becoming a bit easier. I have more turn out in the hip, and less fatigue. Nice when things come together this way.

Not Your Granny’s Caddie

jhcase — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 20:16:05 +0000

Danae has me on the Cadillac—a bench with lots of springs and things on it—and is changing things up on me. Seems there’s a lot of that going on in Pilates.

The Cadillac is interesting for me for the possibilities and limitations it offers. One of the most frustrating, yet compelling, exercises is seemingly simple and begins with my lying on my back (core engaged, of course) with one leg straight in front of me, the other one straight up in the air. Fundamentally, I’m drawing circles in the air, first circling the leg out and around, then reversing directions so my leg passes above the opposite knee first and crosses the body. For the left side this is moderately easy—well, as easy as an exercise should be, I suppose. Then, we switch legs and it’s time for the right side to do the work.

I actually hear myself grunt. Out loud. And not quietly. My goal on this leg is not just to do the exercise, but to be aware of keeping my hip open, of rolling the muscles across my quad and thigh to the outside. It is nearly impossible. And so my leg trembles—no, it shakes—above me as I lie on my back and, yes, grunt, loudly.

Still, as difficult as this may be it tells me something and shows me just how my body has adjusted and compensated, how it has made up new rules for how to perform. Now, it seems, with a little help from Atlas it’s my turn to break those habits. The body was designed to perform efficiently and my body’s revised plan on how it should perform isn’t efficient. It isn’t helpful. Exercises such as this are incredibly difficult, but it seems like I can actually feel the scar tissue giving up a little deep in that hip, and the muscles engaging again.

Shapeshifting Via Pilates

jhcase — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:02:08 +0000

The scale lies.
The scale must be lying because it’s not moving, not really arcing downward and yet I can see this change in my body. It’s the kind of change that usually only comes with weight loss for me. I’ve been noticing for weeks now that my belly has been shrinking. That blessed bulge every woman seems to get at some point in her life—often times I think it doesn’t appear until the 30s or 40s—has been wilting away so that already it is nearly gone.
I suppose that’s not to be entirely surprised at. While we all know that Pilates works the core, and the stomach truly is the body’s core, what isn’t always apparent is what, really, is happening. One of the muscles that Pilates works is the transversus abdominis (TVA), a muscle layer of the anterior and lateral abdominal wall which resides immediately beneath the internal obliques. The TVA helps stabilize the pelvis. It also rather acts as a girdle around the midsection. Keep that deep, TVA muscle in shape it seems and not only will you help stabilize the spine and pelvis (and therein reduce pressure on your discs) you’ll also seemingly tighten the corset. And we all know how nice and flat Scarlet O’Hara’s corseted stomach looked.
Here’s the thing, though: my new body shape doesn’t end in side view. I’m seeing a change when I face that mirror head on, too. My thighs—my Achilles heel—look smaller; my shape looks more proportional. In fact, when I stand in front of the mirror I see something I’ve never seen before, with or without weight loss: My waist—which is quite narrow by nature—looks longer. I am built with one of those hourglass shapes, but this new look is especially heartening. From the hips to ribs I look longer, taller. How delightful. Seems the fact that the scale won’t give me a break is no matter if I can keep morphing this way.