What started as a weekly reprieve in the midst of ongoing cancer treatments became a practice Kim Beaton continues to this day. “I started Pilates at the cancer center in 2018 — a friend who knew [Pure Pilates instructor] Kim Marian had told me about it,” says Beaton, who had taken Pilates many years prior. […]
Last month, our Pure Pilates community lost Lois Jean Schmidt, 86, a beloved and longtime client who was a passionate advocate of Pilates and how it can transform lives. Instructor Kim Marian shares how she came to know Jean in 2012 and what it meant to work with this strong woman. Jean started with Pure
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Above photo: Tara Hochstetler (left) with friends at the Bayshore Half Marathon finish. Tara credits her Pilates practice with helping her running performance. — Traverse City runner Tara Hochstetler knew for years that she probably should incorporate strength training into her exercise routine. “Weakness in my core was causing problems with my hips and knees,” she says,
When a friend suggested she try Pilates to alleviate severe back pain, Jennifer Warren was skeptical. “I truly didn’t understand how different it was from physical therapy,” she says. “I assumed it to be similar, and since physical therapy was not working, I didn’t believe Pilates would do it for me.” An interaction with her
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An everyday task — carrying laundry downstairs — led to a foot injury and a winter of rest, healing and rehabilitation for Jackie Fiegel. “I missed the bottom step of the stairs,” recalls Jackie, a longtime instructor at Pure Pilates, of the early December incident that caused shooting pain in her right foot. She’d broken
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Tom Spencer cherishes time spent with his granddaughter. Tom Spencer’s motivation for maintaining good health can be traced to someone very important to him: his 1-year-old granddaughter—and, well, any future offspring his three children may eventually have. “I want to be able to get on the floor with my grandchildren,” says Tom, of Traverse
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