Pilates At Play at Levity Loft
Experience Pilates!
Whether a beginner, or longtime enthusiast, Trisha Hatfield Graves offers 30-years of experience
as a Certified Pilates Practitioner of the century-old somatic method of Contrology.
Review Trisha's Read-Only Schedule of Group Reformer and Mat Classes held in the cozy and magical atmosphere of Levity Loft!
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While Trisha is unable to accomodate Private students at this time, for Private Apparatus,
contact Heather Christopher or visit www.perennialpilates.com
Descriptions of Trisha's Group Reformer and Mat Classes.
Reformer Classes provide 50-min core-focused workouts, increasing strength, flexibility, ROM, stability, balance, bone-density, and improving postural alignment by bookending your body in motion under varying load, customized to support & challenge.
No experience needed. Really!
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Pilates Mat features a variety of “Toys”; i.e., balls, bands, rings, rolls, springs for the purpose of increasing strength, flexibility, and balance while improvisationally flowing through low impact, core-intensive floorwork.
No experience needed. Really!
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Joseph Pilates...A Real Person
While many associate "Pilates" with floorwork classes, the somatic method coined "Contrology" was conceptualized by German-born Joseph Pilates at the turn of last century; its epicenter being the equipment Joseph designed to uniquely bookend bodies in motion under resistance and used to train/rehabilitate soldiers during WWI.
After fleeing Germany at the advent of Hitler's regime Joseph and his wife, Clara, immigrated to the U.S. in 1926, where his method was known and adopted by George Balanchine's to optimize and rehabilitate dancer in the NY Ballet Company.
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In an effort to preserve the integrity of Joseph's method after his death on October 9, 1967, Clara and mentorees left stewarding the approach renamed the method "Pilates", trademark-protected until 2001, when a class-action suit forced NY Pilates to relinquish their rights, resulting in the word "Pilates" being reclassified in the public domain as "generically open to interpretation".
Joseph Pilates showing off in his 80s
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In the early 1990s, a happy monkey swinging from the ceiling led me to pursue a career in Pilates.
While just a dream triggered after flipping through a magazine and spotting a pic of Madonna hanging upside down on a piece of Pilates equipment, experiencing the dream-monkey's bliss was key in aligning me with destiny, and motivating me through the years of training it took to becoming what I am today...a bonfide Pilates Geek.
Opening in 1997 as the first fully-equipped Pilates studio between Seattle and Portland, Pilates At Play is located to the American Legion Building on Capitol Lake: 219 Legion Way SW, Suite 202, Olympia, 98501, to where my schedule now focuses on:
Group Classes featuring Reformer and Mat
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If after reviewing my website, you still have questions, text:
*My personal cell #, so please introduce yourself by name
For those interested in "Private Sessions",
please contact Trisha's longtime friend and colleague Heather Christopher: www.perennialpilates.com
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Testimonials
Lyndsae E.
Amazing women and a
fantastic atmosphere!
I highly recommend this studio!
You feel completely amazing after a class! Best decision I've ever made. Hands-down. Period!