"In ten sessions you'll feel the difference, in twenty sessions you'll see the difference, in thirty sessions you'll have a whole new body."

-- Joseph Pilates

[Elana]

Owner / Instructor Elana Essers spent twenty years enjoying the rigors of ballet class with some tap, jazz, modern, and ballroom dance thrown in for good measure.

Elana attended CSULB to pursue a degree in Dance Medicine and foster a higher level of appreciation for the human body. This appreciation, which began through dance, deepened through a better understanding of anatomy and physiology. It was at CSULB that she first learned of Pilates.

Elana is certified through The Physicalmind Institute in Pilates exercises on the apparatus and mat work.

In her words, “I have never felt stronger or more balanced in my body...even more than when I was dancing. I believe in this work for everyone.”

[(c) 2003 In Perfect Balance]