What if you are tired of being a survivor? Will you be a thrivor?

Somatic Pattern Recognition helps gently uncover negative influences that restrict our growth and hamper movement. Like a properly nurtured flower unfolding from its bulb, SPRe slowly and purposefully helps the body release inauthentic adaptation and pain, and unfold from dysfunction into new shapes and ways of movement.

In strengthening these new movement patters, Pilates can become an even more effective workout. Growth in the physical body is often quickly reflected in the emotional body and the structure of your daily life. It’s time to thrive?

SPRe Practitioners at Studio Evolve: Jill Ableson 206.957.7773 and Martine Dedek 547-9616. More info at www.sprebodywork.com

A while back we mentioned that Comcast did a short video piece about the studio. Well we’ve received our copy of the video and want to share it with all of you!

Since Valentine’s Day is all about partnership and togetherness, we have a new special for the holiday. Find a friend to do Pilates with and we will give you 3 sessions for $25/person/session. This is over 40% off our regular pricing and would make a fantastic healthy gift for the holiday! Call or email the studio today to take advantage of this special offer. Valid for the month of February only - for new duet clients.

Call or email the studio at: 206.547.9616    joy@studio-evolve.com

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Our artist for January and February is Theodora Shure, featuring her gorgeous and architectural photos. Theodora was born in New York City and moved to Seattle in 2006. She is a high school student at The Northwest School on Capitol Hill and the daughter of one of our regular studio clients. Theodora’s photos were taken on a recent trip to Vietnam and Thailand. Journey in today and take a look at these expressive, beautiful photos of her journey.

We’re making it a little easier to get started on those resolutions for the new year. For the month of January, we are offering a 3 session New Client Intro Package for only $40/session. That is a huge savings! You can do Pilates or GYROTONIC® sessions or any combination of the two.Offer valid through the end of the month for new clients.
To schedule, contact Studio Evolve at info@studio-evolve.com or 206.547.9616.

Your face is an enormously rich source of information about emotion. Paul Ekman, of Blink fame, claims that the information on your face is not just a signal of what is going on inside your mind. In a certain sense, it is what is going on inside your mind.

We think of the face as the residue of emotion. Research shows that the process works in the opposite direction as well. Emotion can also start on the face. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.

You might think that if you knew what your face was expressing, you would be better at concealing it. But that wouldn’t necessarily be desirable. Imagine if you had a switch to turn off the expressions on your face at will. Like babies, your face can be a reflection of your authentic self. If babies had the face control switch, we wouldn’t know what they were feeling, therefore we couldn’t care for them accurately.

How much time do you spend editing your expressions? Would it be OK to show your authentic face to the world? If not, why not?

Do you experience jaw pain, headaches, or eye and sinus pain that’s exacerbated during stressful events, like the holidays or family interactions? Do you feel like you stuff emotions and responses behind your face so as not to hurt or anger someone? Do you freeze your facial expression so other can’t see your response to an event or person?

SPRe Bodywork is a hands on system that relieves these symptoms and offers new ways to work with stress more successfully. Pain and discomfort is the body’s way of informing us that a change is needed, and SPRe is the vehicle that helps us to understand the body’s efforts to communicate. SPRe supports us in discovering or creating new options when we experience triggers for that pain, such as family and holidays. SPRe helps us create a new response to stress.

Visit the SPRe Bodywork website for more information about this groundbreaking work.

SPRe Practitioners at Studio Evolve:

Jill Ableson 206-957-SPRE(7773)  Martine Dedek 206-547-9616

*Excerpted from Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell; Little, Brown and Co, 2005.

Kandace Carnathan has been part of the Studio Evolve team for over a year now. When she began practicing Pilates she quickly fell in love with the way that the breathing and movements made her feel during and after each session. In her last three years of teaching, she has witnessed how valuable and transformational movement can be in other people’s lives as well.

One of Kandace’s first clients came to Pilates with terrible pain throughout her upper body. Routine tasks that most people would take for granted were unbearable for her and she had to build a fort of pillows in her bed each night to ease her pain and help her sleep. After private Pilates sessions twice a week as well as a few massages, she began to see changes in her body. About six months after starting Pilates, she was able to stop taking her pain medications and experienced a strength and ease of movement that she hadn’t seen in over three years.

Kandace was incredibly inspired by the passion this client brought to each session and by her dedication to her wellness. She loves helping people tune in and find deeper awareness of their bodies. The “aha” moments that people find in their own bodies continually inspire her. Kandace also enjoys learning about other movement methods and has discovered a new found passion for Gyrokenisis. She takes a class every week here at the studio and loves how well it complements Pilates.

   We’re delighted to have a new artist to our space. James Sutherland’s tactile and gorgeously colored work will hang through January. We urge you to drop in and experience pieces inspired by the music and joy of nature, which he captures with a childlike energy through the use of line, color and texture.

As James expresses it; “My art is my soul at play.”

Too many of us suffer from shoulder tension and pain, especially during the holidays. Usually we attribute it to work or stress; we tell our bodyworkers that our shoulders “hold” all our stress.

But what if our shoulders aren’t just “holding” stress! What if they’re asking you to find a new way to “shoulder” things, because they’re tired of doing it?

Having a tight neck or painful back is the body’s way of communicating to us that there is a problem. SPRe bodywork explored the underlying, emotional reasons that cause our bodies to physically respond the way they do. SPRe addresses base level belief systems and traumas that are then layered with day to day stress and tension. Tension is a reflection of everything we have previously used our bodily systems for as well as how we organized our beliefs about it. SPRe works hand in hand with Pilates to get to the root of a problem to effect authentic, usable change in daily life.

If your shoulders are tense when you enter your workout, Pilates will help you develop more efficient shoulder movement. SPRe identifies what or how your shoulders are communicating and the historic coping mechanisms embodied in the shoulders. SPRe helps you recognize what your body is doing and feeling and introduces possible changes. Pilates helps you act on that change; it helps reinforce and strengthen a new shape and how to move with it in the real world.

SPRe helps us understand the body’s efforts to communicate, decipher the meaning of pain and discover or create new options when the trigger for that pain happens. Events that may trigger a somatic response can include holiday and family stresses, job reviews or anything the medical community deems stressful without giving a solution for.

Visit the SPRe bodywork website for more information about this groundbreaking work. SPRe Practitioners at Studio Evolve:

 Jill Ableson 957-SPRE (7773), Martine Dedek 547-9616

Recently, broadcast giant Comcast, contacted us to feature Studio Evolve in their select list of Best of the City. A little nervous about an on-camera interview, we were ever excited and quickly agreed to the taping!

Comcast maintains a proprietary channel for its ON DEMAND customers showing all the best spaces and places, dating services and even pet information. The crew came to our lovely studio one Thursday afternoon and couldn’t have been more friendly. They took many shots of our work-out area and were wowed by Studio Greeter Pandora, who agreed to perform her special repertoire of tricks on camera. Sadly, she didn’t make the final cut.

The presenter interviewed owner Martine, who described her vision for the studio and explained its unique offerings. Several clients were caught on tape working out, and a long-running client of the studio, Joy, was interviewed about Pilates and her experiences of Studio Evolve. Pilates as preventative health care was highlighted, as was the studio’s focus on individual client care, eco-friendliness and the community.

Tune in to Comcast’s ON DEMAND channel and look for Studio Evolve under Get Local and then Best of the City. We will post the interview on our website as soon as we get our copy! We couldn’t be more proud!