Testimonials
Lynn Paraggio, Excel Apprentice - June 2003
Three and a half years ago, a wise chiropractor advised that I find an exercise program that would work on my spinal alignment. I had injured my neck many years prior, and over time had fallen into poor posture and exercise habits. As a result, I was living in constant pain and seeing the chiropractor three times a week.
For several years I had been stumbling across articles on Pilates and thought it sounded interesting. Lo and behold, the day after receiving the advice from my chiropractor, I came across another article on Pilates and decided it must be fate and that I needed to give it a try. From the first day of my first mat class I was hooked. After years of dance, karate, running and weight-lifting, I thought I was in shpae, but quickly realized that Pilates was going to take me to a completely different level of fitness, and just might help me get out of pain. It was soon clear to me that twenty years of bad habits would require lots of re-patterning of both my thinking and my movements. This has been, and continues to be, hard work, but I can now say that I infrequently have pain in my neck, and when I do, it is minimal. I haven't seen my chiropracor for a couple of years.
The other benefit I discovered in Pilates is stress relief. As a mother of two boys, one of whom is severely handicapped, I found that I was immersed in stress which was dragging me down mentally and worsening my neck pain. I soon discovered that the fifty minutes of complete focus in my Pilates sessions cleared my head and lifted my spirits. Now, at the age of forty-five, I feel and look better than I did five years ago. In fact, I am so thrilled with what Pilats has done for me that last September I entered the Teacher Training Program here at Excel so thatI could pass the benefits on to others. My Pilates journey has now truly begun, and the more I learn, the more I find there is left to learn. I have deep respect for the brilliance of Joe Pilates and the wonderful instructors with whom it has been my privilege to work.
Many thanks to my teachers and mentors here at Excel for this gentle but thorough educational experience.
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