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Karen Carlson has an exceptional understanding of how the human body works. I have been a client of hers for well over 10 years and she has helped me get stronger, stay stronger and become more intelligent and confident about my body mechanics. Additionally, she has guided me through recovery from injuries much sooner than might otherwise have occurred. She is a highly effective teacher. I would recommend her to anyone.

Knowledge, intelligence, and relaxed but firm discipline are included in each session with Karen Carlson. For the client, this results in flexibility, strength and a more capable body. I have worked with Karen for an extended period of time and am still impressed during every session with the depth of brilliance she brings to her instruction. Just as impressive is the instinctive and varying manner with which she cares for each client.

I have been a client of Karen Carlson for 12 years. I started seeing Karen due to a sciatic nerve injury. Pilates focuses on improving flexibility, strength, and body awareness. Pilates develops core muscles and spinal alignment. With Karen’s help and using the Pilates Techniques, I no longer suffer constantly with my sciatic problem. She has a complete understanding of the musculature of the body which enables her to fully help her clients.

I have had “one on one” Pilates lessons with Karen Carlson for over ten years and as a result my body is strong and erect and my balance is excellent. I’m 72 years old. Karen has seen me through a smashed broken ankle and a total hip replacement. She has an excellent knowledge of the human body, more proficient than many orthopedic surgeons, chiropractors, or physical therapists with whom I’ve come in contact. When I’m engaged in my “one on one” lesson, Karen keenly watches how I perform the exercises and whether the proper muscles are engaged to result in the maximum benefit possible.

Karen Carlson is the finest Pilates teacher and person I am privileged to know.

I came to Karen Carlson at the end of a 25 year professional dance career, hoping to extend my dance career for a few more years, both teaching and performing. I was particularly concerned about fluidity in the torso. Karen helped me gain insight into how I was restricting my own upper body movement. In the last few years she restructured my body with the result that I am moving better than ever before. The information she imparts is backed up by an ocean of supporting knowledge of many disciplines. Her passion lies in seeing her clients succeed.

Habiba, Middle Eastern Dance

I began working with Karen after suffering the effects of scoliosis and a depressed sternum throughout my life. Through careful evaluation and drawing on her vast knowledge of how the body works, Karen was able to design exercises specific to my needs. She afforded me movement, strength, and flexibility that I never thought was possible.

Karen uses much more than the Pilates technique in helping her students achieve their goals. She has a masterful knowledge of how the body works, and is able to draw on that expertise in creating a program specific to each person’s physiology; she is able to verbally communicate what one must feel internally, a rare talent.

Karen is able to puzzle out a solution to any problem presented to her. She is never confounded; she is excited to face any challenge presented to her, and does so with intelligence, support, and care. Her clients are always extremely impressed by capabilities.

Karen’s knowledge of the body and how it moves is incredible.  She has helped me overcome chronic injuries, improve posture and get stronger.  Each of her Pilates sessions is unique, creative and challenging.