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I feel cliché starting off like this, but like so many other entrepreneurs, I started PILATESBODY by Kayla in the height of the COVID shut down as the gym I had been teaching at for 6 years closed. I started to get creative with my clients during this time and was finding different ways to get Pilates in bodies without being in a studio! I had just given birth to my baby girl, Bobbi (now 2.5), and I was jobless and eager to come back from my maternity leave and teach Pilates. My husband mentioned turning our storage garage into a Pilates studio and he’d do the work. I was all in! He transformed the space within 6 weeks and by the time my daughter was 5 months old I was privately training Pilates clients in my brand-new home Pilates studio!
It has been a wild 2 years! When I was postpartum with my first, Bobbi, I wanted to create a Pilates challenge that would encourage women to feel supported, help them ease their way back into exercise, and also encourage those who’ve never done Pilates before to feel confident in starting in the comfort of their homes! I developed the 8-week PILATESBODY Challenge to lead a community of women towards inner core strengthening, breathwork, building body confidence, and cultivating a 360° approach to a healthy(ish) lifestyle. This is when my life completely transformed and I stopped doing CrossFit, running, and lifting heavy weights all together.
As someone who has personally struggled with low back pain since teenage years and has osteoarthritis, high-impact workouts were physically doing me more harm than good. Don’t get me wrong, I loved the mental grind, grit, and competition of CrossFit—Oh, how it brought me back to my gymnastics days! However, the constant aches, pains, and fatigue my body felt were not worth it. Once I started exploring Pilates for Stretch, Stamina, and Strength purposes, it completely transformed my body and mind. I have never been more lean, flexible, and confident (even after 2 babies)!
My app, PILATESBODY On-Demand, came to life in 2021 and we host over 200 classes (100+ prenatal friendly classes), 4 instructors, and make Pilates accessible to you at home. I also welcomed my son, Nash, into the world in spring of 2022! Life has been crazy and I’m so thankful for the mental clarity and breathwork Pilates brings to my crazy life of 2 toddlers to help keep me sane and manage the many unexpected emotions mom life carries.
