Kristen's Studio

Strength is better together ✨

A beautiful mother & daughter reformer session
combining side splits with hand weights for the perfect blend of:

✦ Lower body strength
✦ Core control
✦ Stability
✦ Coordination
✦ Connection through movement

This powerful combination challenges balance, control and focus while building strength from the inside out.

Pilates isn’t just exercise — it’s quality time, shared energy, and moving stronger together.

Move. Connect. Grow stronger together.

📍Kristen’s Studio

YOUR BODY IS YOUR BUSINESS

Teaching all day?
Standing for hours?
Giving your energy to everyone else?

Take the time to reset between your own classes.

Step onto the reformer.
Be guided by your instructor.
Move with purpose.
Recharge your body.

Because the best teachers know…
you can’t pour from an empty cup.

Train. Restore. Teach stronger.

Kristen’s Studio
Movement that gives back to you

🔥 Single Leg Mountain Climber on the Cadillac 🔥

Strength. Stability. Control.

Taking the traditional plank to another level… using the Cadillac spring resistance from behind, wrapped around one leg, as the knee drives forward with precision and control.

This dynamic movement challenges the body from head to toe, demanding deep core connection, shoulder stability, and powerful lower-body control—all while resisting the pull of the spring.

Benefits of this exercise:✔️ Builds deep core strength and stability✔️ Strengthens shoulders, arms, glutes, and legs✔️ Improves pelvic control and single-leg stability✔️ Challenges balance, coordination, and body awareness✔️ Enhances hip mobility and functional movement✔️ Develops spinal stability under load✔️ Increases endurance, control, and athletic performance

Every pull of the spring demands focus.Every knee drive builds power.Every repetition creates strength with purpose.

At Kristen’s Studio, we train the body to move smarter, stronger, and with complete control. ✨

✨ Side Flexion on the Cadillac ✨

Using the BOSU for support and challenge, combined with the hand spring and overhead arm reach, this beautiful movement creates the perfect blend of strength, mobility, balance, and flow.

As the body moves into side flexion, every muscle is asked to support, lengthen, and connect—building strength from the centre while creating space through the entire body.

Benefits of this movement:
✔️ Strengthens the deep core and obliques
✔️ Improves lateral spinal mobility and flexibility
✔️ Opens through the ribcage, shoulders, and thoracic spine
✔️ Lengthens the waistline and side body
✔️ Challenges balance, stability, and proprioception
✔️ Enhances shoulder stability and arm control
✔️ Improves postural alignment and body awareness
✔️ Creates fluid, graceful movement patterns

The BOSU adds instability for deeper muscle activation, while the hand spring creates resistance and support, allowing the body to move with both power and elegance.

Strength in the centre. Length through the sides. Movement with intention. ✨

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✨ Arabesque on the Cadillac ✨

Length. Control. Precision.

The Arabesque stretch on the Cadillac is a beautiful movement that creates deep length through the entire back line of the body—especially the hamstrings, calves, glutes, and spine—while challenging balance, stability, and alignment.

Benefits of this movement:
✔️ Deeply stretches the hamstrings and posterior chain
✔️ Opens through the hips and improves hip extension
✔️ Enhances pelvic stability and core control
✔️ Improves posture and spinal alignment
✔️ Builds balance, body awareness, and coordination
✔️ Creates length and freedom through the lower back

This is not just a stretch… it’s strength, mobility, and control working together.

Move with intention. Lengthen with purpose.

✨ Short Spine on the Push Through Bar ✨One of the most beautiful exercises on the Cadillac… and one of the most powerful.

The Short Spine is so much more than flexibility—it's about control, articulation, strength, and flow.

Benefits of this movement:✔️ Improves spinal mobility segment by segment✔️ Strengthens deep core and pelvic stability✔️ Opens through the hips, hamstrings, and lower back✔️ Encourages healthy articulation of the spine✔️ Builds coordination between breath and movement✔️ Enhances body awareness and control✔️ Creates length, decompression, and freedom in the body

When performed with precision on the Cadillac Push Through Bar, this exercise challenges you to move with both strength and grace.

Move with intention. Move with control. Move with purpose.