Category Archives: Balanced Body Pilates

Get fitter with Pilates

Get fitter with Pilates Are you looking to strengthen your core and tone your body? Well if you are and would like to do so without a stress and strain of high impact workouts why not try Pilates? Pilates is a workout routine that targets the core muscles of your body, which are the abdominal,…

Complementary Benefits of Therapeutic Massage and Pilates in Ramsey County, St. Paul MN

Complementary Benefits of Therapeutic Massage and Pilates in Ramsey County, St. Paul MN Therapeutic massage and Pilates are both healing modalities and should not be seen as competing treatments. In fact, therapeutic massage and Pilates have complementary benefits for both the therapist and the client. This is the message of Ken Endelman, owner of Balanced…

The History of Pilates

The History of Pilates *The History of Pilates In order to understand the basics of Pilates and why it can work for you, you first need to understand where Pilates came from. Pilates was originally formed in Germany by a man of the same name, Joseph Pilates. Joseph Pilates had many health afflictions as a…

Have You Tried Pilates To Help Your Back Pain?

Have You Tried Pilates To Help Your Back Pain? There are several ways to treat back pain and many have achieved various levels of success. The reason there are so many is because the medical world and experts have different opinions of what causes back pain and the same applies to the way they think…

The Possibilities Of Pilates

The Possibilities Of Pilates The Possibilities of Pilates By Nancy A. Besser, MA Founder, Balanced Place Pilates & Post-Rehab Conditioning April 19, 2010 Nothing possible is impossible and nothing impossible is possible.  Following this logic, one can assume limitations only exist when we deny their impossibility to change what we are at our core.  We…