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Growing a Reformer Pilates Program With FITCORE™

Growing a Reformer Pilates Program With FITCORE™

Aug 24, 2026
 

When Church Health YMCA in Memphis, Tennessee received four donated reformers in summer 2025, the team saw an opportunity to launch its first Core Reformer Pilates Studio.  Megan Libassi, who leads the program, shares how her team found Peak Pilates® FITCORE™, what they learned, and how a four-Reformer pilot grew into an expanding program across the YMCA association. 

Shoulders: Strength, Stability and Standing Posture

Shoulders: Strength, Stability and Standing Posture

Shoulder dysfunction is increasingly common, often stemming from modern lifestyle habits such as prolonged sitting and excessive screen time. These patterns can lead to postural imbalances like rounded shoulders, forward head posture,and kyphosis, resulting in inefficient or dysfunctional shoulder movement—often without any pain. As instructors, it’s our responsibility to recognize these patterns and guide clients toward more functional movement.

Walk this Way

Walk this Way

Want to help your clients walk better, feel stronger, and move with ease? Walk This Way is a focused workshop that blends Pilates-based strength and mobility training to improve gait,...
Exercise Spotlight: Leg Pull Front - Peak Pilates

Exercise Spotlight: Leg Pull Front

The Leg Pull Front is a great weight bearing exercise that strengthens and aligns the entire body and challenges shoulder stability and upper body strength. MI Zoey Trap explains the setup, cues and modifications for new students.This exercise shares a shape in space to many Pilates exercises. They include:Push Up Series on the MatLong Stretch [...]
Cherea Hatcher

Pilates for Every Body: Upholding the Legacy of Inclusion and Equity

By Cheréa “Ray” Hatcher, Peak Pilates ® Level 2 Graduate “Every person in the world should do Pilates,” said Joseph Pilates, the creator of the practice that bears his name....
Pilates for youth

Pilates For Youth

Pilates For Youth Virtual Workshop With Nancy Gwinnell Hurd Joseph Pilates has these words to say about Pilates for Children "First, educate the child. In childhood, habits are easily formed—good...
Enhancing Mental Health with Pilates

Enhancing Mental Health with Pilates

May is mental health awareness month- are you ready to learn more about how Pilates supports mental health and how you can help your clients physically, mentally and spiritually? Pilates...