Your Botique Pilates Experience
Meet the Owner, Julie
Hello, my name is Julie McGahan. I started the Body School to teach Fairbanks Pilates and movement medicine. I am a Dancer with special interest in west coast swing dance and tango. I am organically grown and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. I started studying physical medicine in 2006 where I trained with wonderful professionals both in state and out of state. as a life long learner I travel from Maui to Miami taking workshops and going to seminars. After my first lesson on a Pilates wall unit I was hooked. I started my intensive Pilates training with a one on one apprenticeship with Anne Turner and since then Pilates have been my number 1 passion and focus and muse. From that moment my Pilates career has lunch my Fairbanks Pilates Club, where I am on a constant search for the perfect location to grow into. With time I will have 10 Pilates reformers for Pilates for beginners.
Why Do So Many People
Choose Pilates
And why do we have such a diverse crowed of people at our Pilates studio. Pilates draw in so many different people because Pilates effect the person in a vast number of ways and Pilates was design from the outset to work with people with nearly any body type condition or injury. Pilates is design for professional weight lifters, marathon runners, snow boarders and just as well design for spinal injuries, stroke and brain injury.
We all want the carry our kids, pickup our partner and carry our own groceries without feeling weakness or pain. Pilates exercises strengthens the core, focusing on the deep abdominal and back muscles. This simple focus aligns the body in a way that heals many down stream health issues and most times will elininate all together.
I have found as I get old no longer reach the same places I did when I was younger. Simple yoga poses became so much more difficult and reaching behind my back became a struggle I did not want to get restricted any more. The Pilates method gradually and consistently increased my flexibility and increased my mobility. Like so many others I felt I was given this gift that I thought I had lost forever.
With winters cold and the sun time so limited we have a lot to catch up on. limited in exercise and lets admit being a little isolated from the rest of the world, both a blessing and a curse. Pilates can create changes in the brain, Boosting the function to an ideal place. anxiety, fatigue, and depressive symptoms, and a release of negative thought patterns go away for many of our clients.
