Movement therapy (what you’re doing in Pilates) is extremely powerful, but manual therapy and movement therapy will make the fastest changes in your body. We’re super excited to take manual therapy and movement therapy to the next level by combining them in one session.
Meet Celia Downs. She’s been practicing a multi-disciplinary approach to manual therapy for over 18 years with modalities like structural integration, craniosacral, and visceral organ therapies. She also graduated from The Pilates Center Intermediate Plus teacher training program in 2016 and has been taking regular private lessons with Sophia for six years.
She’s had a vision of melding fascial postural re-education with movement and now that vision is becoming manifest in a new offering at Kinesis Pilates called Moving Manual Therapy. For months, she and her massage therapist peers as well as Sophia having been working out the details and we’re excited to officially launch this new option in February 2023.
Celia will offer a four-session series that will explore spinal, hip and shoulder mobility. This series is designed to give you freer movement with a deeper understanding of where your body lacks strength or where bound tissues limit the muscle’s potential. Her hands on approach will help you put your bones where you want them then educate the soft tissues to hold them there.
This work is intense, but also intensely powerful. In our experience, it creates more profound change more quickly in the body.
Get a 4-pack for $380, then individual sessions for $100 once the intro package is complete. Sessions are available on Thursdays at 10am, 11am, 1pm, and 2pm starting in February. Get started here.
Testimonials:
“I have worked with Celia Downs on Moving Manual Therapy at Kinesis Pilates since February 2023. I am thoroughly grateful for the learning, growth, and change my mind and body have experienced, as well as the confidence I feel as I become stronger and empowered and my body is more organized.
I often show-up with an unusual gait pattern due to neurological conditions, or cardio or digestive issues. Celia integrates many modalities into her work. Over a few sessions, I understand what is occurring, and through movement, touch, and deep bodywork, I am aligned and connected. Celia has helped me discover and embody the full capacity of my lungs - my breath is full, and my heart rhythm is steady. Additionally, she has helped me with digestive issues, and I continue to use her homemade remedies for digestive support.
It is remarkable to witness and experience her extensive knowledge of the human body and its complex systems, as well as all the networks of blood and lymph vessels and so much more! Celia is truly a skilled manual therapist. She intuits, palpates, assesses, feels, and hears what the body is saying. She ‘knows’, and she listens.
My experience with Celia has been transformative, and I wholeheartedly recommend Celia.”
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“Working with Celia has been enjoyable and enlightening. Celia has helped me change some fundamental things in my posture and gait to have more flexibility and more stability. I walk differently because of Manual Movement Therapy, which has changed some habits I've had since childhood. It's easy to see how knowledgeable and experienced Celia is, so I'm not worried when she asks me to do something unfamiliar or presses hard on a muscle. She listens to me when I tell her what I feel (or what hurts). And she patiently answers my questions about how things work anatomically. She's great at explaining anatomy in just enough detail to help me understand what I'm doing with my body and how I might want to change that movement.”
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“Manual therapy with Celia was working specifically on how to retrain my body to undo maladaptive positioning and bias I had developed over years of injuries and surgeries. I am a very active person who has had spine surgery and through long term chronic compensation asymmetries and unbalance of effort and musculature use had led to misalignment. Through our work, I was able to correct some of those, via practicing the principles during our sessions to my everyday life and activities outdoors. I improved by ability to maximize by strength and technical abilities to climb, hike, mountaineer while staying healthy.”