Santosha Pilates mission is to empower students to learn the deep patterns of movement that perpetuate issues in their daily lives and use movement to repattern into optimal alignment throughout daily life as well as activity. Mandee specializes in helping her students refine their movement and approaches the work from a collaborative lens - with open communication with the student.
The combination of offerings are the blueprint to making lasting changes. 1:1 sessions are further cemented into learning by doing at home guided videos and taking small group classes to practice what was done in the 1:1 and videos with corrections. The offerings don’t have as big of an impact when done in isolation- the act of practicing on your own as well as with eyes on you makes a huge difference in the efficiency of repatterning. The offerings were created with affordability and scheduling in mind- the small group classes and videos can stretch the time between 1:1 appointments while not compromising progress.
Pilates Movement Therapy is comprised of:
1:1 sessions
Small Group classes
On Demand Videos
These three offerings are meant to be done in combination to make healing efficient and effective. You will come out of Pilates Movement Therapy with the ability to confidently make changes in your body through movement- to heal from your injury, get out of pain, to stay active, to prevent injury and to become more confident getting back to and enjoying the activities you love.
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“I started private sessions with Mandee during a slow recovery from a car accident, and immediately felt better after the first session. She was able to quickly identify my body's misalignments through her postural assessment, and then gave me a specific series of movements and exercises to get my body into a more correct alignment. Before I went to her, I had been doing exercises recommended by my PT, but didn't feel that my pain was improved by it, and I wasn't getting stronger or getting to the point where I could start adding much resistance into my routine. Mandee's customized approach was the missing element in my recovery, which starts all the way back at the basic fundamental level of proper body mechanics and alignment. I realized that without attending to this piece first, the structural imbalance in my body was hindering my recovery and making it harder to heal. I also became aware that many or most of us have at least minor imbalances in our posture and alignment that we don't even realize until an injury occurs (or a chronic pain from the poor posture develops!). Now that my hips and shoulders can move the way they were designed to (in their sockets and with correct range of motion, etc.), my pain is lessened, my body can focus on healing. I am getting a detailed summary of each session through email, with customized cueing and other tips to help me remember what we did, so that I can do the movements correctly on my own in-between sessions or remember any modifications she may have given me for a certain movement. I plan to continue to see her for several more sessions, until I get to a point where I can manage with a maintenance routine with her on-demand library of focused movement sessions, or the live classes. It is night and day to how I feel now, and anytime I feel something creeping back into play, I can go back to her basic reset in the on-demand videos or refer to my "homework emails", which also include custom-selected links to any of the on-demand videos that specifically correct whatever imbalances I have, which changes over time as the alignment issues evolve.
I continue to be grateful for Mandee's passionate dedication to this unique approach and her ability to guide me in this personalized, amazingly effective journey toward wellbeing.
As a health care professional, as well as someone experiencing this success firsthand, it is my hope that this concept of "movement therapy" will become more recognized in the rehab world, as I fully believe this is a game changer. Not only do I recommend Mandee's program to anyone suffering from an injury/accident, but to anyone who wants to improve their wellbeing from a holistic, whole-body approach.”
-Sara