Kaye Gardner
Pilates Mat

Kaye Gardner has been an avid exerciser for more than 12 years. Her personal practice has spanned the breadth of aerobic exercises, from high-impact to body sculpting, as well as anaerobic free-weight training. For the last three years her training focus has been the study of Joseph Pilates’ exercise methodology.  This pursuit has brought the mind-body connection of exercise to the center of her private  training service and personal bodywork practice.  Enhanced core strength, flexibility and elongation of the body while maintaining muscle tone is the goal of her teaching  approach.

Kaye Gardner is PhysicalMind certified to teach Pilates Mat and Standing Pilates exercises and she incorporates the Pilates equipment into her personal training service.  Her approach is to teach core strength development and physical balance to her clients. When the core or powerhouse can adequately support the movements of the spine a state of harmony exists in the body. Isolating and strengthening individual muscles without stress to the joints is the goal. One approach to accomplish this goal is to re-educate muscles to fully extend and release with Yamuna Body Rolling techniques. Kaye is fully certified by Yamuna Zake to teach Yamuna Body Rolling. Yogilates is another mind-body connection form of exercise which Ms. Gardner integrates into her ‘client focused’ personal training service.  The focus is not on how much you do but rather on the coordination of correct breathing with performance of the exercise. Improved posture through better spinal alignment, improved flexibility, and movement consciousness are the goals of a Pilates exercise regimen.