We’ve expanded our CoreAlign schedule to include three levels, making it easier to find the right place to start—so you can keep progressing as you gain experience. Whether you’re completely new to CoreAlign or ready for more challenging work, there’s now a class for you.

Benefits of CoreAlign include upright/functional movement training, posture, balance, and gait improvement, and core stabilization.

COREALIGN LEVEL 1

CoreAlign is unlike most of the equipment in the Pilates studio—you’ll spend much of class upright, working with two independently moving carts that respond to how you shift your weight, step, push, and pull.

Level 1 gives you time to learn how the equipment works and become familiar with its foundational movements.

Expect coordinated stepping patterns, standing and floor work, and plenty of instruction as you learn to work with the moving carts and resistance.

Who this class is for: Anyone who wants to try CoreAlign. No previous Pilates or CoreAlign experience is required.

As with all of our group classes, you must be able to get down to and up from the floor independently and comfortably use stairs.

COREALIGN LEVEL 2

Once the basics of CoreAlign are familiar, Level 2 gives you more ways to use them.

You’ll work with longer sequences, more varied positions, and movements that ask you to coordinate the two moving carts while changing direction, shifting weight, and working against resistance.


Classes move at a steadier pace than Level 1, with less time spent introducing the equipment and foundational exercises.


Who this class is for: Clients with Reformer experience can begin here, even if CoreAlign is new to them. Clients without Reformer experience should first take Level 1 and progress with their teacher’s recommendation.

COREALIGN LEVEL 3

Level 3 takes familiar CoreAlign work and makes it more complex.

Expect longer combinations, quicker transitions, and exercises that ask more of your strength, balance, coordination, and ability to manage the moving carts independently.

There’s less time spent breaking down familiar movements, allowing the class to spend more time exploring advanced variations and more involved sequences.

Who this class is for: Clients who have been regularly attending Level 2 CoreAlign and are comfortable with the equipment, common exercises, and pace of class.

 CoreAlign class schedule

We hope and intend to add more later this year.

CoreAlign Level 1: Mondays at 4pm with Katrina

CoreAlign Level 2: Wednesdays at 9am with Libby and Fridays at 9am with Christine

CoreAlign Level 3: Wednesdays at 4pm with Audrey

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Pilates TrainingIn the last blogpost I spoke about how the Polestar Pilates Training, allowed me to be a creative teacher because of the system of principles that it teaches.  We spoke about breath and using the breath as a tool for movement facilitation, and that led me to tell you, “Why Polestar?”  Because with a system of principles I am given the freedom to meet people where they are and am given the tools necessary to create a program geared towards their goals.

Well Breath is just the first principle of Polestar.  Axial Elongation and Control is the second.

Now first let me tell you about a little history.  This principle used to be called Axial Elongation and Core control.  You know “the core” the buzzword of the first part of the century. Everybody was talking about the core and telling people to pull their belly button to their spine.    The planking internet craze came out of this movement, and because of this “core revolution” whenever anybody heads into the doctor speaking of some form of musculoskeletal pain the doctor says, “you need core strength.”

This person then heads to the Internet and when you type in core strength up comes an image of a man with his shirt off doing a plank.  Because of course the Internet thinks the Plank is the best exercise for core strength and if the Internet says it’s true, then well…

Okay yes I am on a soapbox.  One I can get on quite often.  The core is not magic and having a strong one is not going to fix all of the world’s musculoskeletal pain.  The core is part of a system and if this system is placed in the most advantageous position the core will be strong.

Thus in the Polestar Pilates Training, we teach that the Axial Elongation and Control principle is about finding the longest axis of the body so that the core can work without conscious thought.  The best way to feel this is to try it.

Sit in a chair.  Without changing anything notice what your belly feels like.  Touch it, and notice how the muscles feel.  Now begin reaching your head towards the ceiling, and then become aware that your ears and your ribs are centered over the bowl that is your pelvis.  Now without moving notice what you feel in the abdomen.  You may feel some additional tone and guess what by simply finding your longest axis you are increasing your core strength and endurance.

All this and I didn’t have to say bellybutton to the spine once.  Thus within the system of the Polestar Pilates Training, we have the first two of six principles which guide a practitioner’s creative and critical thinking to design the very best program from any person to find. In the next blogpost learn about the third principle spine articulation.

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