Why CSP Pilates?
CSP Pilates Classes are a challenging, low impact, total body workout that focuses on strengthening the core and elongating your muscles. Pilates is a resistance based exercise that uses springs or your own body weight to strengthen and stretch allowing the body to develop into a long, strong, lean form. CSP classes will help keep you active, healthy and mobile from your teen years to well into your 90's or more.
Who is Pilates For?
Pilates is for everyone: athletes, office workers, the injured, the strong, the flexible and inflexible, dancers, expectant mothers, the young, and the elderly. Pilates is ageless and genderless. With hundreds of exercises Pilates will push you farther than you ever thought your body could go.
How Will Pilates Benefit YOU?
Pilates will make a huge difference in your life, your health, & your body. Millions of people around the world are taking Pilates lessons to overcome injuries, improve their posture & to simply feel energized and strong in their bodies everyday. Wouldn't you love to… wake up without a stiff, sore back? Go for a walk without aching knees & hips? Feel taller with better posture? Be more energetic, HAPPIER & calmer? Well, these are the results TONS of people are feeling when they start taking Pilates. I know Pilates will benefit you too!
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Where we are located:
Center Space Pilates studio is located at Dunbar street & 36th Avenue in Vancouvers Dunbar-Southlands area. Just a 5 minute drive west from Kerrisdale. We are a boutique style studio offering small group equipment classes, privates & semi-private sessions.
About Rachael:
I found Pilates in my 20's. When I was training in ballet & contemporary & I started getting injuries, even though I was 'strong' & was dancing 30+ hours a week. When my hips misaligned & I pinched a nerve I was side-lined from training & had to find a way back from this injury. My Physio was amazing in helping me put my body back together, but as soon as I was finished with rehab it wouldn't be long until I'd get injured again; a popped rib, a pinched nerve, limited range of motion… It felt like an emotional roller coaster! I'd build up strength and ability only to be taken back down by injury. 1 step forward, 3 steps back… It was pretty hard to deal with. When I was 24, one of my friends asked me to go with her to a Pilates class. I'm SO glad I went! It was incredible & I knew it was the 'thing' that would help me stay healthy for life.
A month after I started taking Pilates twice a week I noticed an amazing thing: I felt in control of my body & its abilities. I felt that I had a way to 'keep it all in check'. My balance got better (thanks to a greatly improved core), my back and hips stopped mis-aligning & my posture improved (no more rotated ribcage & hips). I felt so much more freedom in my body. I felt strong. Truly strong. I rarely get injuries, but if I do, I now have a proven way to find my way back from it. The emotional roller coaster has stopped.
I want you to feel healthy & powerful in YOUR body too! I want you to keep enjoying all the activities you love doing. Yoga, hiking, horse back riding, running… Whatever your passion, Pilates will help keep you strong in your body so you can keep doing what you LOVE. Because after all, that's what life is all about… Enjoy it as much as you can!
A month after I started taking Pilates twice a week I noticed an amazing thing: I felt in control of my body & its abilities. I felt that I had a way to 'keep it all in check'. My balance got better (thanks to a greatly improved core), my back and hips stopped mis-aligning & my posture improved (no more rotated ribcage & hips). I felt so much more freedom in my body. I felt strong. Truly strong. I rarely get injuries, but if I do, I now have a proven way to find my way back from it. The emotional roller coaster has stopped.
I want you to feel healthy & powerful in YOUR body too! I want you to keep enjoying all the activities you love doing. Yoga, hiking, horse back riding, running… Whatever your passion, Pilates will help keep you strong in your body so you can keep doing what you LOVE. Because after all, that's what life is all about… Enjoy it as much as you can!
Proffesional Bio:
Rachael Pope - STOTT PILATES® Certified Instructor
Rachael's love of movement began with dancing. While training in her early 20’s she discovered Pilates & quickly saw how much of an impact it was having on her dancing and on movement in her everyday life.
Rachael’s clear common sense approach & obvious enthusiasm for Pilates helps her to motivate clients of all ages & fitness levels. Focusing on the fundamentals of form & breath in every session, Rachael guides her clients to develop better posture, core stability, alignment & a deeper body awareness leading to true functional fitness & a renewed connection with the strength & power in every persons body. She inspires her clients to take what they learn in their sessions & apply it to their every day lives. Every class is practical, hands on, and accompanied with a bit of humour to keep it light! Rachael is fully certified in all Pilates apparatus including mat, reformer, cadillac, chair and barrel work. As well as teaching Pilates she is also a certified dance instructor (RAD RTS) & taught ballet, jazz and modern dance throughout the lower mainland. She has been teaching movement & dance since 1991, and Pilates since 2006. In 2014 she transitioned to teaching Pilates full time at her studio as she felt it was helping and benefiting so many people & she definitely wants to be a part of that!
Rachael’s clear common sense approach & obvious enthusiasm for Pilates helps her to motivate clients of all ages & fitness levels. Focusing on the fundamentals of form & breath in every session, Rachael guides her clients to develop better posture, core stability, alignment & a deeper body awareness leading to true functional fitness & a renewed connection with the strength & power in every persons body. She inspires her clients to take what they learn in their sessions & apply it to their every day lives. Every class is practical, hands on, and accompanied with a bit of humour to keep it light! Rachael is fully certified in all Pilates apparatus including mat, reformer, cadillac, chair and barrel work. As well as teaching Pilates she is also a certified dance instructor (RAD RTS) & taught ballet, jazz and modern dance throughout the lower mainland. She has been teaching movement & dance since 1991, and Pilates since 2006. In 2014 she transitioned to teaching Pilates full time at her studio as she felt it was helping and benefiting so many people & she definitely wants to be a part of that!