Thrive Forever Pilates

*New* September Pilates Classes (Enrolling now)

Autumn is (inexplicably!) here. Time for our seasonal class overhaul (where take a deep look at our community and what the class and session needs *really* are.
Here’s what’s new under the changing leaves and crisper air…

😎Monday 11am Whole Body Pelvic Health Pilates - A super start for beginners to the reformer. Love your whole body here and strengthen your pelvic floor function and health.

😎Thursday 9am Bone Strength and Balance– Low bone density newcommers, this is your class. Keep what you have and stock up your bone bank for later. Been awhile since your last class? Dive in here for an effective, appropriate challenge.

😎Friday 7:45am Bone Strength and Balance Tower of Power - Seasoned students exploring new mastery layers. This class is a juicy challenge as you develop your weight-bearing capacity and add spring resistance.

A great complement to our Weight Bearing BSB mat class on Wednesdays at 9am.
Designed for people with low bone density and those who wish to preserve theirs.

😎Saturday 9am Whole Body Pelvic Health Pilates- Everyone welcome! Love your pelvis and every other body part for fantastic “fall” function.

😎Saturday 10am Nuts and Bolts - We heard you and added more space for this community favorite! Beginners encouraged. Be ready to move and learn the Pilates repertoire utilizing the apparatus.

And, drumroll please…duet sessions are coming!👇👇👇👇

We’re rolling out our new Duet sessions—it’s a private session with just one other human and your teacher. As soon as we finalize our Duet session schedule, we’ll open it up to waitlisters first.

Which means you’ll save $$, customize your practice, and meet more of our community all at once.

DM us to get on the waitlist.

We’ll start enrolling in October and our waitlisters will have priority registration, so don’t miss out!

We are beyond thrilled for a new season of strength, supreme body nourishment, stress relief, and the welcome chill of cooler nights and colorful days ahead.

See you this week

What’s the Right Fit For You, Pilates Classes Or Private Sessions?

🥰🥰We love a blend.

Especially if you are brand new to Pilates, private sessions can jumpstart your practice by shortening your learning curve.

The customization and attention help you master movement flows with plenty of gentle coaching and encouragement.

Plus, you learn how your muscles work and play together, and how to accommodate for any aches, twinges, or conditions you may be managing—like your:

🙃tricky shoulder,
🙃inflamed knee, or
🙃spine that tweaks out whenever you twist a certain way.

Infuse private sessions into your regular class practice

Why? Because a private session will help you:

💪understand your current level of experience
😎Move more efficiently into your next level of experience
🤓maximize your group class experience…

…because when you have a better understanding of how your own body works, you can adapt instructor cues more effectively to your unique body.

Stock up, prices go up on 9/15!

Save 5% and purchase additional private sessions HERE:

5 Pack of 60-Minute Private Lessons $614
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10 Pack of 60-Minute Private Lessons $1181
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The ultimate Pilates sweet spot is balance.

When you enjoy expert customization of one-on-one work while reveling in the motivation and camaraderie of our warm, delightful Pilates community, you hurt less and move more---with confidence, ease, and adventure.

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Welcome to the end of summer---the flurry of school prep, last-minute vacations, county and local fairs, (hopefully!) cooler evenings, and a general sense of transition.

How do you stay persistent with Pilates when it feels like time only speeds up?

Make the choice to pause...🙃

The world will keep winding you up...it's up to you to say, "STOP! Wait just one hot second..."

But when you can do that much, Thrive has your back with the rest.

Our duet sessions have you covered this fall, and the waitlist is now open.

Customize your movement, relief, strength, and outcomes with personal attention + community.

We've taken the guesswork out of getting a Pilates buddy...here's how:

1. We have structured availability for all our duet sessions.

2. You get on the waitlist, and we let you know once our availability goes "LIVE" to enroll.

3. You get focused, customized attention and save $$$ all at once, while enjoying a convenient session time with one other human.

4. You deepen your body knowledge, strength, and balance while enjoying relief from symptoms, conditions, or even just life for 50 minutes.

DM us and grab a spot on the Duet Waitlist.

We'll handle the rest. Duets begin in September, after we settle in from our late-summer break!

Fall is always exciting--make it your strongest season ever with a brand new Duet!

See you soon, and remember to slide into our DMs to get started,

Orly and the Thrive Forever Pilates Team

Hikers, See Nia in August (Here’s Why)

As you soak up the rest of this whirlwind sweet summer season, remember the four pillars that we prioritize at Thrive Forever Pilates: stretch, release, prepare, and repair.

😅Stretch and Release:

In order for your body to move freely, it needs to feel like it's safe.

When you stretch and release muscles and connective tissue, you let go of tension and stress that accumulate over time and miles—tensions that sometimes make walking, climbing, and clambering feel stuck, congested, painful, or hesitant.

🤓Prepare:

We strengthen and acclimatize your body to the different movement patterns that you experience in your favorite activities.

For all of those long, winding trails, there's a sequence to keep your knees, hips, ankles, and feet moving easefully underneath you, eating up mile after beautiful, nature-filled mile.

🙃Repair:

Healing ourselves after an intense season of movement, acute injury, inflammation, overuse, or chronic condition.

(Like that lower back that acts up after every trail walk, or your shoulder that won’t let you lift and carry your day pack anymore.)

We want you to stay ready for endless nature walks and trail magic in every season, no matter your age or stage.

Repair allows for:

👉Rest,
👉recovery, and
👉restorative movement that feels good, relaxing, and nourishing to sore hips, tight spines, and aching feet.

We give you the permission and the knowledge and tools to listen to your body’s messages for you, and decode them in real time.

Come and see NIA this month! Grab a 3-session package and DM US to get on her schedule.

Purchase here: www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages.

Join us and stay strong for every step and all the miles.

How To Get Strong Bones (Without Lifting 300 lbs)

There is such a buzz around bone density right now, and rightfully so!

Lifting “heavy” is a proven way to get stronger denser bones. (Woot! We love strong humans.)

But the way you do it matters most.

Here’s how we prep you for heavier loads and stronger bones at Thrive Forever Pilates: 👇👇👇👇

💪Help you understand movement and how your bones and joints work together so you can utilize common lifting patterns, like squats and hip hinges, with total confidence.

💪Develop “movement fluency,” so that you can be sure you’re safe lifting heavier over time.

💪Create enjoyable, accessible exercise sequences that keep you injury- and pain-free no matter how much you lift, bend, twist, jump, paddle, run, or walk.

The whole point of building bone density is to be able to enjoy the movements you love without fear that you're going to fall and break a bone.

Our Empower Peri-Menopause Mat class is a perfect entrée into prepping your body to lift more and get strong bones in every stage of life.

It's never too early, and it's never too late to begin adding to your bone bank.

The younger you come into our peri-menopause classes, the more time you have to get and stay strong at every stage after that.

Also, don't panic if you haven't gotten in yet—you can always start this process and make quick and effective progress.

We have current openings now on Mondays at 1:15pm, and we can't wait to welcome you in!

Enroll at www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages.

Get strong bones with us—the smart way. We can’t wait to help you trust your body—at every age!

See you this week,

Your Strongest Body is Missing One Crucial Ingredient

The key to your strongest body is SMART work over hard work.

In Pilates, you get there by learning about movement and your own unique body.🤓🤓

😎5 Private Sessions can accelerate your progress by months. (Yes, really.)

Investing in your body with targeted, customized Pilates sessions pays you back for months and even years, because you:

👉Understand the strength gaps inside your own body (where do YOU need to focus to make the progress you want to see?)

💪Adapt movements and sequences to your conditions, symptoms, or diagnoses (without second-guessing safety or effectiveness.)

👉Receive individualized sequencing that creates immediate relief, faster progress, and continuing strength and mobility results over time.

😎Maximize your group class time (because you know how to tweak each movement for your needs and goals.)

Guess what? 👇👇👇👇

Nia has private session openings for the remainder of summer!

Guarantee yourself an adventurous, free-moving end-of-summer by giving your body the support and nourishment it needs with a private Pilates session (or 5.)

Enroll easily right here:

5 Pack of 60-Minute Private Lessons $614
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10 Pack of 60-Minute Private Lessons $1181
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Use your private session for:

😌that squeaky shoulder that's been nagging at you since the springtime,

😌the hips that just won't calm down, or

😌the low back pain that takes you out only 30 minutes into your favorite hiking trail.

Private sessions can do so much to support and nourish your one-of-a-kind body, and Nia is ready to help you thrive. Get in before she fills up.

Take care. We love you,

Had a kid... ever? Put this Pilates class on your calendar.

It's true (and wild!) that if you've ever grown and birthed a child, you are postpartum for the rest of your life, even when your child is thirty.

Your body changes remarkably with each pregnancy, and your body needs different support afterward—and forever more.

Enter our Finding Balance Postpartum classes. 👇👇👇

(enroll at www.thriverforeverpilates.com/packages)

After pregnancy, we help you lean into:

👉Pelvic health, (preventing organ prolapse, enjoying intimacy, feeling strong, resuming sports and adventures with confidence)

👉Lower back pain relief (so you can lift or play with your little ones, wrangle the groceries, and run around with grand kids)

👉Bladder leakage (hello, sneezing without crossing your legs!)

👧Keep up with your LIFE after you’ve brought life into the world!👧

Stop missing out on our warm, connected community.

We love our seasoned moms’ wisdom and our new moms’ discovery as motherhood rolls out—the triumphs, challenges, and surprises.

Doing motherhood (and your postpartum body) is SO much easier with others who get it.

It's a win-win for all involved.

Enroll at the link www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages, and we'll see you this week.

Be sure to get on the waitlist if you don't see a spot open—our clients’ schedules change a LOT in summertime. You’ll often get the classes you want, but only if you sign up.

Take care. See you (and your life-giving body) this week.

Steal Our Top Two Pilates Pro Secrets This Week

Living STRONG, FREE, Independent, confident, and energized is SUCH a moving target.

How do you stay fresh, motivated, and committed to supporting your body, especially when it’s a LIFETIME project? (As in, you’re never really there—the success is in the journey; cliche, we know.)

Here's what we know about staying on the path of movement freedom and strength, and you should totally steal our experience:

1. 💪💪Pilates is training for life, not the gym.👩‍🌾👩‍🌾

Know that your Pilates sequences keep you balanced, strong, independent, capable, and competent at every age and stage.

These are not show muscles we're developing here—these are life muscles we're working on together. You’ll ward off or relieve injury, prevent falls, and stay independent and adventurous with this kind of movement freedom and body confidence.

2. 🙃🙃Stay curious and PLAY with your strength and movement.👧👧

Nothing is better for that than trying a NEW class. You’ll drop into beginner’s mind again, which keeps you on your toes (figuratively and literally). When movement is new, it’s usually FUN, which means you’ll keep doing it.

Get on the WAITLIST for a new class this week, friends.

We have several spots open in our Empower: Peri-Pilates and Menopause Mat classes (Mondays, 1:15pm, no waiting!)

And, you can usually get into our other classes when you waitlist faithfully.

👉👉👉Visit www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages to enroll, reserve, and waitlist this week!

No excuses. Take the leap and turn on your movement excitement again, or for the first time.

Yes, you might feel a little awkward. New experiences do that to us. But you’ll find Pilates and movement mastery a lot sooner than you might think.

Be willing to be engaged in the process. You cannot make a mistake with us.

See you in a new class this week!

Is It Time To Graduate?

When you've taken enough foundational Pilates classes, you might wonder how and when to expand your skills and evolve into the next level of strength, balance, competence, and confidence.

Today, we're going to tell you how that works.

You'll know you're ready to graduate when:

🤓You are familiar with the “lingo” for all of our foundational Pilates exercises and can navigate movements without extensive explanation. When the instructor says the name of an exercise, you know where to go and what to do.

🤓You know the equipment. You understand how to load springs, change carriage stoppers, lower and lift the foot bar, and manipulate the reformer accessories we typically use in class, like headrests and boxes.

😎Your body is telling you that it's time to move up. You're more graceful and fluid. Once-hard moves are now easy and simple for you. You crave a new challenge, but aren’t sure what to try next.

That's why at Thrive Forever Pilates, we provide a web of support that evolves with you as you grow your strength and confidence.

We’ve got room for you in several places.

👉Try our Empower: Per-Pilates and Menopause Mat for a fresh take on bone density, pelvic health, and stress-relief.

👉Get on the waitlist for an Intermediate option like our BSB series.

👉Grab our Mat Mix Package and try all kinds of new-to-you mat-based formats.

Enroll, reserve, and waitlist at 👇👇👇👇

www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages.

Still have questions about your next Pilates adventure? DM us and Orly will get back to you with a roadmap to success.

It’s time to trust yourself! We’ll see you this week as you level UP for the back half of summer.

The 2 Essential Moves You Need For Stronger Bones

Hip Hinges
Squats

(Keep reading for the tutorial…and be sure to grab your spot in our Bone Strength and Balance classes at www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages.)

Bone density is such a hot-button issue today, especially for women who are in the peri- or postmenopausal stages, and it is never too late to add to your bone bank.

Hip Hinge:

Essential for lifting items like boxes, suitcases, pencils, and especially children or grandchildren.

👉Stand by a mirror with a side-view of yourself. Make sure you have enough room to bend forward without hitting anything on the way down.
👉Stand with your feet about 6 inches apart, and bend forward from your hips.
👉Keep with a slight bend in your knees, and
👉Shift your body weight into your heels and your seat.
👉Stand back up and assume a tall, strong posture.
👉Crucial: Keep your upper spine straight and strong all the way through this body fold.
👉Come down only until your spine is parallel to the floor, and then stand back up using the muscles in your seat and the back of your thighs (your hamstrings).

Squat:

Use it to get up and down out of chairs, couches, and off your bed in the morning. It is a very functional movement. Add external weight and it's a powerhouse bone builder!

👉Start off by sitting in a firm chair.
👉Lean forward from your hips just like in the hip hinge, but this time, push down into the ground with your feet and stand up to a full upright position.
👉When you sit back down, hinge at both your knees and your hips, and just barely let your seat touch the chair before you stand right back up again.
👉Put your body weight in your heels and keep your chest lifted, proud, and open.
👉Try to keep your knees from jutting out beyond your toes.

Practice on your own and then get into our bone strength and balance classes.

You can find them here: www.thriveforeverpilates.com/packages.
Remember to “waitlist. " You’ll often get the classes you want, and we can’t wait to catch up on all your summer updates!