Graceful Movement Pilates

Pilates on demand classes accessible for all. Mindfully curated in gorgeous settings. Our classes are made with care to improve your strength, posture, balance, and focus. Have fun with mat, seated classes, reformer, chair, and varied prop workouts. Including the foam roller, magic circle, therabands, hand weights, booty bands, balls of every size, and most simply your mat. Enjoy the app ANY time at home, the gym on the go-and wherever you find the time to move. Increase your stamina, resilience, and energy for all that is YOU! Work on your core! Improve your strength! Have better posture! Connect breath, body, and mind! Graceful movement Pilates offers a free monthly community class at Shell Dance Orchid Gardens in Pacifica California as well as in person reformer classes in San Francisco and Marin County, California. Pilates provides the opportunity to center, connect, and engage your body giving you the best possible version of your self. Let's work together on improving your practice to be the most effective and efficient with the time you have available in order to support all of your goals and physical fitness. Pilates is an intelligent form of exercise designed by Joseph Pilates in the 1920’s that lengthens, strengthens, and tones the entire body from the inside out. Having had health and respiratory issues as a child, Joseph was aware of the importance of strength and health to succeed in all physical pursuits. He believed modern lifestyle, poor posture, and inefficient breathing was the root cause of illness. His original method called contrology helped wounded veterans experiencing atrophied muscles, injury, and illness in their hospital beds with resistance springs for strength training. He built and designed much of the equipment still used today. Later in his life, he founded a studio with his wife Clara in New York City that had a devoted dance and performing arts community. They trained and rehabilitated many people, as word spread rapidly. With regular Pilates practice, you will develop deep core muscles to support your internal organs and assist improving the structure and strength of your entire body from inwards, out. Pilates brings mental clarity, efficient breath, and prevention of injury. Lubricating your joints and improving posture to gift you a longer, stronger, and more resilient self.