Karen Schwalbe-Jones combines her two BS degrees from UCLA: Kinesiology and Psychology, with 18 years of weight training and rehabilitation experience to provides friends and clients well-rounded physical, mental and emotional health.

As a Pilates practitioner, Karen has enjoyed fine tuning her education with special populations such as pre and post natal, geriatrics, MS and stroke patients.   "Pilates is the most complete approach that encourages people to connect their minds with their bodies".
All of what we do as human beings begins with the neurological and appears in the physical.   Therefore, how well we condition our brains to create physical responses is how strong we can become.

Karen has been teaching Pilates for over 10 years and has taken many women to term practicing Pilates.   In fact, Karen exercised the day she gave birth to her now 4 year old and is still working out while pregnant with her now 10 month old!   Karen believes Pilates feels the most organic, especially to the pregnant body.   As the hormone Relaxin surges thru the pregnant body, Pilates teaches it control, balance and coordination as well as helping with its postural muscles for the always-evolving pregnancy.

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