Bellevue Pilates — Local services in Bellevue

I LOVE this studio. I've been seeing Jed twice a week for personal Pilates for about a year and a half now and it's helped me SO much. Jed is super knowledgable and is the best pilates instructor I've ever had. (I went through two others from different studios before settling on him.) I've been recommending him to all of my friends. My husband is now seeing him, too.

I was pregnant last year and had a lot of pelvic & SI pain. Jed helped me to strengthen and target the specific muscles that would help with alleviating the pain. By the second trimester, most of the pain had gone away and I had gotten back a significant amount of motion and strength back. Since I was pregnant, it was difficult because I was limited in what I could do. (The pregnancy itself was limiting, and my pain was also a limiting factor.) Jed is very good at what he does. He was able to work around my limitations and always offered several different exercises that could target the same muscle/area we were trying to work.

I'm pretty sure the pilates contributed to an easy labor and delivery as well. I labored for about 4.5 hours total and pushed the baby out in less than 10 minutes. I felt VERY strong in my pelvic floor/core. In fact, this funny thing happened after the delivery: the nurse was pressing down hard on my abdomen, trying to ascertain where my uterus was and she initially commented that she was having trouble finding it. She pressed down several times and still could not find it. She was confused for a minute, then said, "ah, it's because you have amazing abs and they are blocking your uterus!" I was floored by this because that's the last thing you expect to hear after just giving birth!

I took 8 weeks off from doing pilates after giving birth and the labor itself gave me a lot of back pain. I was on heavy pain killers for 5 weeks! When I was finally cleared to work out again, I immediately went back to Jed. In just 2-3 short weeks, I felt like I regained most of my strength again and the pain virtually went away. I'm five months post partum now and still seeing Jed twice a week. I feel stronger than ever and have lost most of the baby weight. I attribute bouncing back so quickly to all of the maintenance work we did before the birth and throughout the pregnancy. I'm a firm believer of Pilates doing miracles for your body and I intend on continuing to see Jed...

As an osteopathic physician, I examine the posture and stance of each patient, and almost every one of them stands and holds their body in a compromised position. I feel the strain from this when I treat their body. I recently had terrible back and leg pain, and I knew it was from letting myself get out of shape. Since I often use some key lessons that I learned in Pilates classes years ago to teach my patients how to correct their positioning, it dawned on me, “I need to get back to Pilates!” I signed up for an individual class at Bellevue Pilates and after that one hour, I have re-engaged so much. I feel hopeful that I can get this strain to release. Never before had I had an individual session, and with that attention from my experienced instructor, I could feel this line of strength through the length of my body that I hadn’t felt in years, or ever. It is so elongating and obviously right. I will recommend Bellevue Pilates for their expertise in this careful instruction. The type of Pilates taught at this facility has a pure intention of providing the person with the necessary feedback that we need to be able to intuitively and subconsciously engage the correct postural core muscles and to elongate and strengthen ourselves. Giuliana Venables, D.O. Vibrant...

I cannot say enough positive things about Nancy Wallace Pilates! I've worked with several of the instructors and have had nothing but fabulous workouts. All instructors are highly trained, professional and really work hard at getting to know your body so you can advance in the correct way. I love their scheduling protocol - it's very personalized and efficient. I've been an avid runner for over 20 years and adding in pilates workouts on a weekly basis here has not only improved my running strength, but my posture has improved and my muscle + joint pain has practically...