Pilates is often promoted as being great for ‘core strength’ or ‘reducing back pain’, both of which it certainly can do. (I know, as back pain was the main reason I took up Pilates in the first place). Through personal experience and in teaching clients in private and group settings, I now know that Pilates has consistently supported me in managing my own anxiety. The practice can be instrumental in supporting the positive mental health of others.Read More
Balance Life
Community Highlight: Polestar Practitioner Peter Clerkin
Movement fascinates me and Pilates is a wonderful way of moving and making shapes that is in the moment, fun, and rewarding. Pilates takes me into flow more than any other activity.Read More
Community Highlight: Edwin Carvalho de Oliveria
“Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life”, I apply this teaching 4 days a week, and also move my body every day, I love what I do!Read More
Working with Clients with Breast Cancer
Polestar Educator Amy Dixon has an extensive fitness background spanning over 20 years, including experience working with breast cancer survivors. Through classes and private sessions, she helps survivors rehabilitate and reexperience positive movement experiences. Amy shares her experiences working with Cancer clients along with useful insights on what to expect teaching this population and how […]Read More
Helping and Healing Through Pilates
Deborah Marcus entered the Pilates world in the 1980’s in New York City via teachers including Andre Bernard and Jean Claude West while pursuing a career as a dancer and choreographer. She found her way to the Polestar Teacher Training in 2008 studying with Sherri Betz in Santa Cruz, CA., “It was an eye opening and […]Read More
Educator Highlight Shelly Power
Shelly Power is the Director of Curriculum for Polestar Pilates. She has been teaching Pilates since 1992 and has lead teacher trainings since 2000. Shelly’s unique and rich teaching style includes aspects from her specialization in NLP communication and experience teaching dance and movement to children. We sat down with Shelly to learn more about her, including her […]Read More