Santosha Pilates Movement Therapy® (SPMT) offers a personalized approach to pain, postural imbalances, and recovery from injuries or conditions. Through a combination of private Pilates sessions, small group classes and tailored videos done in between sessions, I’ll help you understand the movement patterns that keep you stuck and teach you how to reset them for better alignment in everyday life — whether that’s playing sports, chasing kids or grandkids, or finally getting rid of nagging pain.
This hybrid model blends your private Pilates sessions with classes, and videos, so you’re supported in between sessions. You’ll leave your private session with recap notes with links to your tailored videos and reminders of what you learned. Instead of forgetting what we did or waiting for the next appointment, you’ll have tools, guidance, and accountability to create lasting change.
Santosha Pilates Movement Therapy® acts as a bridge between physical therapy and fitness, tailoring Pilates-based movement to your body so you can build strength, prevent recurring issues, and move with ease. Many students notice changes in their alignment within just one session yet it takes commitment to build lasting strength, retrain patterns, and truly experience the long-term benefits.
Whether it’s back pain, SI joint problems, hypermobility, neck and shoulder tension, pelvic floor challenges, plantar fasciitis, or post-surgery recovery — Santosha Pilates Movement Therapy® helps you move more efficiently and confidently for a lifetime of healthy, pain-free living.
✨ Members of the Santosha Movement Society get automatic discounts on sessions and classes — and since you’ll use the membership naturally, it’s best to join before booking.
Combining these offerings is the way my most successful students find real results. Each format offers something unique:
💫 Privates give you focused precision and individualized attention.
🤝 Virtual small group classes help you apply what you’ve learned in real time.
🎥 Videos (your at-home practice) reinforce it all through repetition at your own pace.
This 3 part blended approach is the secret behind lasting results at Santosha - helping you move with more awareness, ease, and confidence both on and off the mat.
All of this is accessible within your hub, The Santosha Movement Society! These three offerings are meant to be done in combination to make healing efficient and effective. You will come out of Santosha Pilates Movement Therapy® with the ability to confidently make changes in your body through movement- to heal from your injury, get out of pain, to stay active, to prevent injury and to become more confident getting back to and enjoying the activities you love.
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“I started private sessions with Mandee during a slow recovery from a car accident, and immediately felt better after the first session. She was able to quickly identify my body's misalignments through her postural assessment, and then gave me a specific series of movements and exercises to get my body into a more correct alignment. Before I went to her, I had been doing exercises recommended by my PT, but didn't feel that my pain was improved by it, and I wasn't getting stronger or getting to the point where I could start adding much resistance into my routine. Mandee's customized approach was the missing element in my recovery, which starts all the way back at the basic fundamental level of proper body mechanics and alignment. I realized that without attending to this piece first, the structural imbalance in my body was hindering my recovery and making it harder to heal. I also became aware that many or most of us have at least minor imbalances in our posture and alignment that we don't even realize until an injury occurs (or a chronic pain from the poor posture develops!). Now that my hips and shoulders can move the way they were designed to (in their sockets and with correct range of motion, etc.), my pain is lessened, my body can focus on healing. I am getting a detailed summary of each session through email, with customized cueing and other tips to help me remember what we did, so that I can do the movements correctly on my own in-between sessions or remember any modifications she may have given me for a certain movement. I plan to continue to see her for several more sessions, until I get to a point where I can manage with a maintenance routine with her on-demand library of focused movement sessions, or the live classes. It is night and day to how I feel now, and anytime I feel something creeping back into play, I can go back to her basic reset in the on-demand videos or refer to my "homework emails", which also include custom-selected links to any of the on-demand videos that specifically correct whatever imbalances I have, which changes over time as the alignment issues evolve.
I continue to be grateful for Mandee's passionate dedication to this unique approach and her ability to guide me in this personalized, amazingly effective journey toward wellbeing.
As a health care professional, as well as someone experiencing this success firsthand, it is my hope that this concept of "movement therapy" will become more recognized in the rehab world, as I fully believe this is a game changer. Not only do I recommend Mandee's program to anyone suffering from an injury/accident, but to anyone who wants to improve their wellbeing from a holistic, whole-body approach.”
-Sara