Pilates Westwood is a personalized exercise studio and home of an excellent team of certified Pilates exercise professionals! At Pilates Westwood we teach our clients to move in harmony with the design of the body. The results you achieve are:

• better posture
• long, toned muscles
• freedom from muscle and joint pain
• increased strength and flexibility
• improved sport performance

To accomplish your goals we offer expert instruction in the following modalities:

Getting Started
The first step is to schedule a First Workout (1/2 price). We assess your conditioning level and goals, and give you a complete Pilates Workout. Your Pilates instructor will take into account your schedule, budget, and any injuries and design a program to help you achieve your fitness potential. Click here to register.

Move to Balance
The muscles and joints become “unbalanced” through unhealthy movement habits and we return to balance with healthy movement patterns. At Pilates Westwood, we teach our clients to restore dynamic balance. Pilates is one of several effective systems we use to teach balanced, graceful, pain-free movement.

When we sit, stand and lift objects with rounded backs and shoulders, there is unnatural stress placed on our joints and our muscles work too hard and become fatigued. Forcing our bodies to move in unbalanced patterns leads to some muscles becoming excessively short and tight, some muscles to only work or “fire” intermittently and others to become excessively stretched, which renders them weak.

When unbalanced movement patterns become habit, we begin to feel stiffness, followed by increasing soreness then acute injury. Unfortunately, a painful injury is usually the first signal which is strong enough to get our attention that something is wrong.

Poor posture, clumsy movement and ultimately, injury do not “just happen.” These habits must be repeated for years before an obvious problem develops. The good news is if we regularly stretch the short, tight muscles and strengthen the weak muscles and learn to move in balanced ways which are in harmony with the design of our joints, we will have much less, if any pain, our posture will be easily maintained and we are free to move with strength and ease. We also have more energy because we are not wasting it keeping our muscles unnecessarily contracted.

The professional staff of movement educators at Pilates Westwood is here to help you realize the possibility of graceful movement.