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Dynamic Pilates

What is Dynamic Pilates?

Dynamic Pilates is individualized exercise instruction that focuses on enhancing your dynamic core stability. It teaches you how to exercise by starting at your core and helps you correct faulty movement patterns. Your Dynamic Pilates instructor applies recent advancements in evidence-based medicine to the traditional Pilates method to produce optimal results in fitness, rehabilitation, and injury prevention.

How is Dynamic Pilates different from a traditional Pilates program?

As with traditional Pilates programs, Dynamic Pilates employs the principles of Pilates—whole body movement, breathing, balanced muscle development, concentration, control, centering, precision, rhythm, and flowing movement. However, this unique form of exercise is taught by a physical therapist who is an experienced, classically trained Pilates Instructor. In addition, Dynamic Pilates:

• Possesses a scientific foundation: Dynamic Pilates draws on the science of anatomy, physiology, biomechanics, and motor control and integrates scientific research findings in areas such as orthopedics, sports medicine, and movement science.
• Employs clinical models: Dynamic Pilates is taught in the framework of clinical models—always keeping pathology, impairments, functional limitations, and disability in mind.

Who benefits from Dynamic Pilates, and why?

Our Dynamic Pilates instruction can help diverse group of individuals with specific needs, including:

• Athletes, both competitive and recreational, can see improvements in spinal mobility, flexibility, and dynamic core stability, with improved body awareness.
• Sufferers of low back pain benefit from improved posture, dynamic core stability, body awareness, and muscular balance and stability around the joints, with the instructor encouraging safe, and often assisted, movements.
• New mothers benefit by improving their dynamic core stability and strength and—in particular—stabilizing their pelvis.
• Patients with scoliosis benefit from improved spinal mobility, enhanced dynamic core stability and strength, and improved muscular balance and length around the joints.

Ask us about our one-on-one and group classes tailored to specific population needs.