Private & Semi-Private Pilates Instruction
New Studio Space Located at:
1600 Dove Street, Suite 111, Newport Beach
Dana is a certified Pilates Instructor originally from Chicago, Illinois, and she has been practicing Pilates for 12+ years. She found Pilates around age 12 while she was training as a dancer. Her ballet instructor highly recommended starting Pilates at a young age to help with training and for injury prevention/rehabilitation. Dana has 20+ years of ballet training, while also studying other styles of dance such as contemporary, modern, and jazz dance. Pilates played a large role in her dance training, as she noticed a big difference in her dancing when she practiced Pilates. She noticed her balance, range of motion, coordination, and control improved tremendously. Dana also used Pilates as means to rehabilitate her body after injuries sustained while dancing.
Dana wants to share all of the great benefits of Pilates with everyone. She truly believes Pilates can not only help fitness-wise, but can also enhance your daily life. What Dana is most passionate about is finding the best Pilates regimen that best facilitates her clients' health and fitness goals while still connecting with clients on a personal level.
Dana is also extremely passionate in training dancers at any level. Being a dancer herself, she has firsthand knowledge and experience of what dancers go through on a daily basis. She has trained many dancers over the years to enhance their training with Pilates. Dana believes all dancers should have a Pilates regimen to help prevent injuries, their overall strength, range of motion, balance, and posture. A lot of the knowledge a dancer learns from Pilates they can take to their dancing.
Benefits of Pilates
Movement heals and is essential to life. Proper movement keeps the body healthy and helps prevent injury in the future, so you can live your life to the absolute fullest. Dana promotes integrity and mindfulness with attentive instruction, which is important when looking for an instructor. Dana teaches classical Pilates instruction along with contemporary Pilates instruction to ensure her clients get the most out of their Pilates training. She is passionate about customizing each session to the client in-front of her.
Dysfunctional movement creates more dysfunction, and it is Dana’s mission to teach healthy movement to her clients so they can live their life pain free. Pilates helps with back pain, posture, range of motion, balance, increasing strength, injury prevention and rehabilitation.
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Through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning, this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind, and spirit can ever be attained. Self-confidence follows.
” -Joseph Pilates
The benefits of Pilates are far-reaching. Through the development and maintenance of the entire system of body, mind and spirit, practitioners of Pilates are able – both literally and figuratively – to walk taller.