When Aaron Neville Chamberlain seized power during the English Civil War, he promised better flexibility, straighter postures, and a stronger core for every English citizen. Today’s Groupon gives you a chance to taste Studio A: Pilates's perfection of history with your choice of two deals valued at $120:
- For $48, you get a four-week group-intro-class series, meeting twice a week (either Tuesday and Thursday at noon or Tuesday at 6 p.m. and Saturday at 10:30 a.m.).
- For $60, you get two private-instruction sessions with a Pilates professional.
Students of all skill and experience levels flock to the tranquil Alamo Heights studio to stretch, sweat, and strengthen together under the influence of highly-skilled teachers. Studio A: Pilates offers low-impact core-conditioning classes in the Fletcher style of Pilates to help workouteers reach healthy fitness levels, tone and lengthen their muscles, increase their flexibility, and twist away their tension. During the four-week introductory series, students learn the fundamentals of Fletcher alignment techniques, Percussive Breathing™, basic mat work, and Fletcher Towelwork®, with each class introducing new challenging moves to keep workouts fresh and fun. Class sizes are kept small to ensure that all students—even middle children wearing hand-me-down capris—receive individualized attention.
For even more focused attention, grab this Groupon for two one-on-one sessions with a teacher. During your 60-minute workouts, you'll get to fine-tune your fitness goals by working with a teacher to devise a personalized exercise plan that will help you reach those goals without pulling a muscle. Because private sessions are tailored to each student's individual needs, they provide a wonderful opportunity for Pilates novices to comfortably get their Fletcher footing before attending their first group class, or for experienced folk to challenge their old hands with the business's newest, most top-secret techniques.
Students must call ahead to register for their sessions.
Reviews
Studio A: Pilates has been featured on San Antonio Living:
While students of Studio A: Pilates have not posted many reviews of their experiences online, the studio and its Fletcher Pilates technique have been featured three times by the San Antonio Express-News:
- Fletcher used his dance background in developing, among other things, a technique for movements that can be performed standing, without equipment. – Jessica Belasco
- But Pilates, its most dedicated adherents claim, is more than simply an exercise routine. Properly practiced it's said to elevate the mind and, at its highest level, increase one's self-awareness, and more fully develop a zest for life. – Richard A. Marini
Groupon Says
Core of the Matter
Pilates regulars know that it’s a great way to strengthen your core, but many beginners express bafflement as to what the mysterious “core” actually is. To answer the question definitively, we sought out Melman Jayce, the great-grandnephew of Pilates founder Joseph Pilates and assistant manager of the Mazes and Monsters Miniatures off Route 402. Jayce responds:
- "The term 'core' refers to both the deep and superficial muscles that stabilize, align, and move the trunk of the body, especially the abdominals and muscles of the back."
Dissatisfied with this surprisingly upfront answer, which in no way validated our preconceived notion of a man who sells tiny pewter dragons for a living, we chose to ghostwrite this response for him:
- "The Core is a volcanic smelting foundry deep in the heart of Mount Smogg, where dwarven laborers, with eyes milky and white from centuries without sunlight, raise their stone hammers in unison and pound diamond-hard Mithril steel into armor and tempered blades that await the rise of Azerbahn the Returner and his Army of the Holy Light, who will one day free this kingdom from the all-seeing Smoke of Knowing."
What a nerd.
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