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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For 47-year-old nurse, Charlotte, long days and the heavy lifting of patients was starting to take its toll. She had started to notice the gradual build-up of pain on the inside of her elbow. More and more often, she would have to ask a colleague to help her with physical tasks or to take over completely.

A trip to the doctor’s office revealed that she was suffering from elbow tendinitis

Elbow tendinitis is an inflammation of the elbow tendons that can cause sudden or gradual pain on the inner or outer elbow. The doctor told her to follow a course of RICE and to take it easy. 

Rest.  Ice.  Compression.  Elevation.

But “taking it easy” wasn’t an option in Charlotte’s profession. 

 She needed to find a way to ease the pain that had long-term results. “I’m an RN in a busy ER. I love my job and couldn’t work anywhere else. Lifting and moving patients to make them more comfortable is part of who I am and they depend on me.” 

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Desperate not to have to move departments and give up the job she loved, Charlotte started researching alternative tendinitis remedies.

Her search brought her to Pilates and the classes offered by Katrina and Laurie.

“I’d heard of Pilates before, but never really had the time or need to give it a try. Now was the time.” 

“Because of the pandemic, all of our classes together were virtual, which worked so well!

Laurie took me through groups of Pilates exercises for improved elbow mobility and shoulder organization."

"We also performed scapular stabilization exercises under different loads. As well as my regular Pilates classes, I attended physical therapy sessions for additional support. The difference has been amazing.”

As the strength built in her shoulders and she developed improved mobility in her elbows, Charlotte noticed she was able to move about her daily activities with much more ease and much less pain.

“I know that tendinitis is a condition that I may have to live with, but the strengthening and conditioning exercises that I practice every week have been a game-changer for me in so many ways. Most importantly, my patients have somebody they can depend on.”

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