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Whether you’re looking to improve a specific body condition or you have specific fitness goals, we’ve got the best custom-tailored session for you!

Pain Relief

Training your muscles to realign your body can help you feel better!

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Athletic Recovery

Whether you're a Pro, Gym Rat, or Weekend Warrior learn how Pilates can help you prevent injury so you can keep doing what you love

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Core Strength

For over 100 years Pilates has been the most core-oriented form of exercise out there.
Sculpt your body right!

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Reap the Benefits

“We don’t perform the exercises, we benefit from them.” – Maytal

Increase

Flexibility

Coordination

Mobility

Energy

Dexterity

Balance

Agility

Better Posture

Body Symmetry

Alignment

Bone Density

Circulation

Decrease

Pain

Stiffness

Muscle Fatigue

Sports-Related Injuries

Stress

Overall

Injury Prevention

Better Body Awareness

Lengthen & Strengthen Muscles

Confidence

Sustained Strength

Agelessness

Maintain an Active Life

Pain Management

Pain Management

The opposite of stiffness is movement

Pilates is not physical therapy but in many circumstances it can provide pain relief.
Most pain is caused by an imbalance of muscle function and in those cases can be alleviated or eased through realignment and movement promoting circulation.
When only a few muscles dominate repeated movement they fatigue and become prone to damage. Pilates trains your antagonistic (balancing) muscles to move you into alignment. By redistributing the responsibility of movement and structural support throughout the body the burden is lessened and pain relief can be attained.

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Athletic Recovery

There’s sport and then there’s fitness.

Staying fit is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. People usually turn to playing sports as a means of fitness. They consider the high intensity, cardio work, resulting exhaustion and muscle soreness as being an indicator of a good and thorough workout. But it’s important to note a very crucial distinction between workout and play…

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core strength

Core, What is it good for?

Absolutely EVERYTHING!
Ask 3 different people to describe the core and you’ll get 3 different answers. The truth is that the term “core” is a vague descriptor and differs in meaning to each person. You can’t work to strengthen something if you don’t know what it is or how to use it…

Perhaps the most enigmatic of body parts, the core is often described as the source of limitless strength and balance. You’ve heard, correctly, that achieving a “strong core” is vital for your health. So what is it? What makes it all-powerful? And how do you build it to benefit your body in the way it’s been promised?

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True Pilates Santa Monica

One-on-one private authentic classical Pilates lessons and Pilates instructor certification specializing in the original Pilates method of Romana’s Pilates.

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1628 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA 90403
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Pain Management

Some (more serious) body conditions that Maytal has successfully treated to alleviate or minimize the pain:

Scoliosis
JRA (Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis)
Spinal Stenosis
Sciatica

Hypotonia
ALS
Degenerative Disc Disease
Diastisis
Kyphosis

Fused Spine
Arthritis
Joint Replacement
Osteoporosis
Myasthenia Gravis

*Every body is different. Results may vary. Pilates is a great form of body conditioning with “healing-like” results, but like all things there are certain exceptions to every rule. It’s usually a good indicator that if Pilates is not right for you / you experience lasting pain then it is very likely that a more serious structural situation exists, at which point seeing a medical professional is advised.

The Painful Details

Most pain is caused by the misalignement of the body which can be either completely aleviated or eased by correcting this, unless permanent structural damage has occurred by an accident or there is a genetic predisposition to certain body conditions. We do not function in accordance with our anatomy, nothing about our daily societal lives supports our body’s design. We hold stagnant positions for longer periods of time than is healthy causing them to react rather unnaturally, be it standing or sitting, etc.
The notion of fitness was designed to counteract our sloth-like tendencies but going from one extreme to another is not the answer. There is such a thing as “too much of good thing” when it’s done incorrectly. With regards to our bodies, we end up forcing extra strain on the same select set of muscles that we unknowingly have already been using.
Posture, done properly and in alignment, is everything!
Overuse of a limited set of muscles causes an underuse of counter muscles. This throws off your alignment and places a repeated burden on only some muscles causing them to fatigue from overuse. Despite the fatigue we continue moving in repetitive ways so the body compensates to achieve these actions and redistributes actions onto muscles not intended to be used for those movements, thus perpetuating the problem in a catch 22 situation until the cycle is broken.

Work vs Play

Professional V Weekend Warrior​

Staying fit is an important part of a healthy lifestyle. People usually turn to playing sports as a means of fitness. They consider the high intensity, cardio work, resulting exhaustion and muscle soreness as being an indicator of a good and thorough workout. But it’s important to note a very crucial distinction between workout and play.

There are 2 main types of athletic/active people:

  1. The Professional  Athlete – who’s job it is to train with the focus on competition
  2. The Average Joe/Jane – who works in one field and enjoys an active life through sports activities, etc.

Distinguishing, embracing and appreciating which one you are is critical to understanding how to work out correctly, in a balanced manner that will benefit your body rather than adding to the wear-and-tear factors of aging.

Form : Activity

Having “proper form” is a relative concept based on the activity in which your participating. It varies with each sport and alters to create the most effective outcome with minimal regard for muscle balance. (Think lifted shoulders for better volleyball passing platform, wide stance for defensive balance in martial arts or basketball, etc.)

Activities are designed to entertain, most often providing increased heart rate, cardio and high intensity muscular. They are known to compromise and often imbalance the body through overuse of limited sets of muscles. Fatigue and lactic acid build up are common consequences.

Alignment : Exercise

Alignment, evening out the bones to be symmetric, is consistent, universal and essential to prevent wear-and-tear type injuries. In Pilates we all exercises adhere to the alignment of the hip-to-hip, shoulder-to-shouler, and their relationships. This is known as “The Box” and it guides the method to keep the the movements within the joints to minimize injury.

We exercise with the intention to maintain health. We work to strengthen our weaknesses to bring balance to our muscles and our body. Working within alignment returns balance to the body.

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The True Power of the Core

The “core,” or “powerhouse” as it’s referred to in Pilates, is comprised of sets of muscles working cohesively to both support your body’s structure as well as allowing it function. Body movement, whether big or small, is created when multiple sets of muscles contract and decontract accordingly.

We’ll say that the primary initiators of the core/powerhouse are the group of muscles that wrap around the abdomen/waist (picture a wrestling belt). The secondary/supporting parts include the muscles in your back and derrier. These engage to both support and deepen the abdominals; the primary working with the secondary (hence the “house” part of the term). Working the powerhouse is only achieved when proper alignment is paired with specific spine-moving exercises, which in turn support and maintain that alignment.