Specialties
Pilates & Physical Therapy are by nature excellent for everyone. When you learn how to move with ease, the benefits carry over into all activities. We teach you how to make adjustments, gain awareness and strengthen with confidence so you can enjoy and excel in any class or activity. Our specialties evolve from our training, passions & life experience. They include but are not limited to prenatal, postpartum, scoliosis, performance, Oov, and golf.
Prenatal Pilates
Prenatal & Postpartum Pilates assists your body with strength, alignment and awareness through your pregnancy, labor, delivery and postpartum.
Our Prenatal/Postpartum Assessment is a 50-minute evaluation and introductory session with Monarch Pilates owner Sandy Novembre or veteran teacher Lani Hoge. You will learn how to safely strengthen a diastasis recti, pelvic floor and improve core integration. We help you create a safe plan that best fits your needs involving private lessons, group classes and/or home exercises.
We offer private sessions and group reformer classes.
Postpartum Pilates
Aging Gracefully The instructors at Monarch offer support and knowledge necessary to strengthen gracefully as we age. Modifications, safety and a nurturing approach allow us to stay strong, balanced and confident despite limitations or injuries.
“I’m feeling a lot stronger lately, I can lift up my grandkids again” Monarch Client
Scoliosis Pilates
Scoliosis Pilates
Laura Ely, a Level 2 ScolioPilates Instructor, will teach you how to integrate scoliosis care into a Pilates practice with empowered education around your scoliosis. You will explore using wedges with personalized strategy and support, learn how to find comfort in your spine and practice specific exercises to manage your curves. The assessment will teach the difference between structural & functional scoliosis and offer a program design with suggestions for which instructor, class or service will help you meet your personal goals.
Oov Pilates
Postural Restoration Instititue (PRI)
“Everything begins with posture. PRI is focused on training providers in the science of postural adaptations, Asymmetrical patterns and the influence of polyarticular chains in muscles” Apply tests, exercises and knowledge for PRI with Laura Ely in an EDUCATE session.
Hendrickson Method
Combine orthopedic massage with Pilates. Orthopedic massage is a gentle approach to bodywork, meant to reeducate the neuromuscular system & to help you move and feel better. Liz DeVera offers ORTHOPEDIC Massage (50 min) body work sessions, as well as RESTORE private sessions (80 min) combining body work and orthopedic Pilates.
Oov Pilates
Add the Oov into a Reformer workout to challenge and support your body. An Oov is a self-regulating feedback tool used in a Pilates session. It facilitates a natural reorganization and strengthening experience, challenges your balance and stability and lengthens the spine.
A 30-minute one-on-one Intro to Oov session or EDUCATE private lesson with Laura Ely is available for assistance in finding personal placement and comfort on the Oov.
Pilates for Golf provides the opportunity to improve performance and reduce injury. Book a private lesson to get started.
Gait Training
Gait Training on the Core Align improves core strength, foot and leg alignment, and integrates strength into everyday activities. Gait training can be used for rehabilitation, improved functional movement or athletic performance.
Call the studio at (831) 475-8994 to schedule your Core Align session.
Oov Pilates