Integral Pilates was founded by Rachel Prabhakar in 2009. We offer Pilates and Alexander Technique teaching with a focus on finding the joy in movement. We love to educate our clients about how our bodies work, while providing a warm, friendly, supportive environment. We welcome people of all ages, sizes, shapes, and abilities. At a very fundamental level, we are designed to move - we can’t survive without moving. When we are moving as we are designed to do, it should feel flowing, harmonious, graceful, and altogether great. When you walk into the studio, my goal is to provide you with an environment in which you can really notice how you are feeling. What does this roll up really feel like today? Does it feel gorgeous, each vertebra of my spine unfurling as I roll up? Or is my lower back a little tight this morning? What would change if I released some of the excess tension in my neck and shoulders? I would like to posit that when we work: •with the intention of really noticing what we are up to, •with the knowledge that we are a completely interconnected whole, •with the goal of finding the beauty of the movement - then all the goals that we have been taught to chase, the ideals touted in a thousand magazine articles - Strong, flat abs! Flexible hamstrings! Toned gluteals! - those will come naturally, they’re fringe benefits. But really, we’re chasing the joy of that roll up.