Studio Pictures

Spring is bringing new joy and energy to the studio!!!!  Classes are growing; new clients are coming to the studio and old ones are returning.  Come and see what all the buzz is about!!!

If you are a member of facebook, go to http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=166160&id=761609596&ref=mf see an album of recent pictures of the studio.  As a returning client said recently, "It looks totally different!!"  and it does!!!  the Strong Body Studio is completely unique and new...

Here are some of the pictures to give you an idea of what the studio feels like now.

Come and See!!!!

Spring Break - Mother/Daughter 2-for-1 Sessions!!

Introduce your daughter to Pilates!!!  For the month of April, bring your daughter in and you can take a private duet class together and pay just the price for one person!!!   

In my practice, I have had the pleasure of teaching mother/daughter duos of all age daughters, from eleven to 27... and the daughters inevitably feel new respect for their moms after a session or two when they see how strong their moms really can be!!  It is a lovely mom/daughter thing to do (as I know from doing it with my daughter, Elizabeth!)  and I feel privileged to be part of that energy!

Most girls sixth grade and up can be on the reformer as long as they are at least 5'0" and over 100 pounds.  

I hope to see you and your daughters in the studio!!!!

Childhood Obesity, Michele Obama, Let's Move & Lang Ranch Elementary

Just this week Michele Obama came out with a campaign against childhood obesity. It is a national epidemic, and I applaud her coming out with her power and prestige against it. Please go check out http://www.letsmove.gov/ for information about her campaign.

We here in California can be proud that we have some amazing women working to keep our kids healthy. I am thinking specifically of the women of the Nutrition & Wellness Committee of the Lang Ranch Elementary School in Thousand Oaks. This was their 4th Annual Green Ribbon Week focussing on family and childhood fitness. The event includes lunchtime classes, special curriculum focuses on health for all grades and a Family Health Challenge. Debbie Aleman was the amazing lady I worked with for this event as the Strong Body Studio, LLC was privileged to be chosen as the mind/body studio to lead the students through a Kid's lunchtime Pilates session.

I have led a bunch of these kind of classes in Agoura, Calabasas and Oak Park, and I never tire of the eagerness and energy of our kids. If anyone in my communities of Oak Park, Westlake Village, Calabasas, Topanga, Agoura & Malibu is planning similar event, I would be honored and totally jazzed to come pull out all the fun Pilates' stops!!

Remember:

A STRONG body is a BEAUTIFUL body!!!!

Joy....and Strength..

I found it today, a perfect flower of the daisy family, a hybrid planted for its hardiness and color near the Taco Bell sign in Agoura (I know, I know, but my son likes Taco Bell and it is the least noxious of the fast food places on the Studio end of Kanan..). I looked at it and got my camera out and photographed it, and it occurred to me that there is joy to be found in every day.....sometimes the pieces are very small, and one has to look for them, or pay close attention in order to see them, but they are there...every day.

I see joy every day.

The more I grow in and from strength, the more joy I am able to see and feel.

I see strength every day.

I see it in my amazing clients. I see it in how this place, the Studio, energizes them. How one comes in as tired as I've ever seen her, beat by the excreta and minutiae of her day as well as the larger issues of living that affect us all, and she finds the strength to work hard...to want to work hard...doing so...and leaving smiling, stronger, brighter!

I see it in the fierce love of another client toward her children, steering them and her through legal and stormy weather, being classy, generous, beautiful and funny...being strong!!!

Connections being made or remade at the Studio. Plans of mutual support.

I am in joy with the strength of my clients!

the Studio flies on Fairy Wings!!!!

As part of our win/win marketing strategy,
the Strong Body Studio, LLC has teamed with the mother/daughter charity, Wings. We are selling fairy things (wings, tutus, wands, fairy dust) with all the proceeds going to Wings, an off-shoot of Childhelp which directly helps and also advocates for abused and neglected children.

In addition, $50.00 from every package of 10 Private Sessions will be going to Wings as well!!

STUDIO IS OPEN!!!!! -- WEEK 1

So much has happened in the past month, and so much still to happen!!

the Strong Body Studio, LLC opened quietly last week with Mary being its/my first client. The day before, I had literally been up to my waist in cardboard and packing materials putting the new Reformer/Towers together. They are gorgeous!!! The action is smooth as silk, and I have so much more I will be able to do with clients! The I-Shape, the revolutionary vibration plate machine proved itself in 3 minute demos with everyone who tried it -- everyone, myself included, became measurably more flexible after only three minutes!!

People are slowing returning -- some I expected back have not yet come, but some I had thought to lose have returned. And new clients have already come in.

One -- an invitation (attached) for the art department at Oak Park High School to show at the studio. (Idea courtesy of Barbara -- many, many thanks!). The teacher, Anna Lovejoy, is very enthusiastic, and I hope to firm up plans with her for a Studio/Exhibit Opening Reception on the last Thursday in February or the first Thursday in March. the Studio would have access to the students parents to show them the space and introduce them to what we can do. In that regard, Meredith, I would love to be able to showcase some of your amazingly healthy goodies at the reception. I'm sure Elizabeth would love to work with you on this.

The past is behind -- the road ahead is an upward slog, but it is in the clear light of a new day/a new year/a new energy!

WIshing you Strength & Joy,

Emily

STUDIO IS OPEN!!!!!

The Strong Body Studio opened today!!!! The new reformers are as smooth as silk in action and a joy to work on. The cardio equipment and the weight equipment are amazing as well. My sister came out all the way from Boston to help set up the lobby area to make it a warm and welcoming place to be - waiting for a session, or hanging out with your friends after a class.

Come and see!!!!!!

A Strong Body is a Beautiful Body!!