develop a lean, strong, healthy body while protecting and stabilizing your joints and preventing injury
At Chagrin Valley Wellness Center, personal health and wellness is an acquired state of being. “Our mission is to achieve proper client posture for ease of movement, maintain core strength and preserve flexibility.” People come to us seeking relief from pain and/or stress, others want a healthier body, most want both.
Pilates was developed in the early 20th century by Joseph Pilates. Formed during the First World War, Pilates was used to improve the rehabilitation program for returning veterans. Joseph Pilates recommended a few, precise movements emphasizing control and form. These movements aided injured soldiers in regaining their health by strengthening, stretching, and stabilizing key muscles. Today, more than 11 million Americans practice Pilates on a regular basis.
"In 10 sessions you will feel the difference, in 20 you will see the difference, and in 30 you will have a whole new body." - Joseph H. Pilates
At Chagrin Valley Wellness Center, private sessions and group classes, adheres to the principles of Pilates by conditioning the entire body through proper alignment, centering, concentration, control, precision, breathing, and flowing movement. Our Pilates sessions, called Functional Movement Pilates℠ help improve your flexibility, balance, core strength, and movement patterns, while lengthening your body, and aligning your spine.
A Pilate’s regimen, combined with the benefits of postural balancing through Muscle Release Therapy, MRTh®, will dramatically improve your overall health and wellness.
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Functional Movement Pilates℠
People come to us seeking relief from stress and/or pain , others want a healthier body, most want both. Functional Movement Pilates℠ was initially derived from MRTh® clients seeking to maintain their newly acquired postural balance. Benefits of Pilates have become main-stream the last 10 years: core muscle strength, tone muscles, flexibility.
What makes Functional Movement Pilates℠ different?
An important difference is the attentiveness of the Instructors. Here, instructors are
educated to notice and correct deficiencies in your breathing and posture, and therefore your movement. Breath initiates all functional movement of the body, so proper breathing skills are where the instructors begin. As the Network of Diaphragms, NOD©, is engaged it will generate the beginning stages of movement. After you learn to breathe properly, attention is turned to your posture. Posture is the body's ability to maintain its normal position by using the soft tissue system to hold it in its proper place during movement. Your posture determines the efficiency of your movement, which is governed by your unique tensegrity model. A well-aligned posture will promote efficient, fluid movement, where as a misaligned posture will inhibit your ability to move as well as your body is meant to. Upon recognition of your postural and movement needs, your Instructor is able to modify those deficient behaviors by embedding efficient functional movement patterns, essentially teaching you how to move correctly. The “teaching” is more a reeducation, given movement patterns are a learned behavior at birth.
Your functional movement patterns are highly dependent on your core strength. The core originates most full-body functional movement, and determines to a large part your posture. Therefore, achieving, maintaining and preserving a strong core is the foundation on which any individual’s health and wellness goals rest. Lack of core development can result in susceptibility to injury, impede the healing process and generally obstruct your healthful state of being.
focus, on strengthening your core muscles and improving your postural awareness, will relieve and prevent pain
At Chagrin Valley Wellness Center, your Functional Movement Pilates℠ Classes are always instructed and monitored by our Certified Pilates Instructors. The Instructors will teach you how to properly use your body with the machines. Their presence will help you feel at ease with your strengths, weaknesses and limitations. After three private (one on one) sessions with an instructor, you will become eligible for group classes (max of four students per class). The group classes are not a competitive environment. Every student has different strengths, weaknesses, limitations and goals. Instructors monitor every group class to offer guidance and ensure proper movement.
Formula of Evaluation
Function equals Movement
Posture determines Movement
Movement reveals Posture
This formula is utilized by the instructor to determine which movements are necessary to encourage more functional movement patterns that work within the confines of the individual’s posture. While the student is performing the specific movement on the machines the instructor uses this formula as their assessment tool.
If you are looking for a safe & effective Pilates studio in Cleveland, Ohio....you found it!
