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Studio Pilates
Individual and Group Classes (scheduled after arrangement)
Experience a complete system of contemporary alternative workout, taught by Konstandina Drossopoulou, Efrosini Voutsina and Maria Nikoloulea
at our fully equipped pilates studio in Modulor Dance Space. With personal training and movements adjusted to individual needs, pilates is for EVERYONE,
whatever your age, body shape or fitness. Through coordination of movement and breathing, pilates will awaken your body from the lethargy of everyday’s life
of sitting for hours, it will make your muscle groups work in a more balanced way, help you reduce stress and at the same time exercise your body without exhausting it.
Individual classes or group classes of three available.
For more information on session costs and schedules, please contact the studio reception (tel. +30210-7232379).
What you should know about pilates
- It was developed in Germany by Joseph Pilates (1883-1967). Trying to overcome his own taunting health problems and moved by the sight of World War I injured soldiers riveted to their beds, he developed an ingenious system of physical exercise based on a set of movements whose aim was to tone core postural muscles and provide support for the spine..
- It became known outside Germany in 1926, when Joseph Pilates moved to New and, with his wife, founded a studio on 8th Avenue. His innovative method soon gained great support among artistic circles which included Martha Graham, George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. Today, it is the exercise of choice for a host of famous Hollywood celebrities, like Madonna, Jodie Foster, Julia Roberts and more, as well as for many dancers and athletes.
- It comprises more than 500 exercises, executed on the floor or with the aid of special equipment, like universal reformer, cadillac, pedi pull and high chair. Its basic principles are: concentration, control, centering (finding your powerhouse), precision, breathing and flow of movement.
- It can speed up your metabolism and benefit your respiratory and circulatory system. Pilates can relieve you from back pain and support your torso, make your stiff knees flexible and your body more aligned.
- Don’t expect miracles after one or two sessions. Don’t expect to feel sweat dripping down your neck and back. Don’t be disappointed if you don’t pant or feel overworked like in a conventional gym. Pilates needs patience, repetition and persistence; in time you will have a firmer body and a feeling of invigoration and well-being without exhausting yourself. For better results, make sure you attend at least two classes weekly.
Konstandina Drossopoulou
Through music, movement, body expression in everyday life and dance, Konstandina is there to give you balance and a chance to develop different aspects of your self.
Her personal story with dance began when she studied ballet and explored harmonious movement with a group of young dancers. She continued her studies at Sofia’s Pancho Vladigerov Music Academy and received her degree in Ballet Technique/Teaching.
Her interest in discovering the body’s full potential lead her to Evita Iliopoulou’s Pilates School, where she studied and then worked for four years, becoming a certified pilates instructor. After specializing in power pilates in the streets of New York, and with an insatiable curiosity to learn more, Konstandina found herself in Brazil, where the rhythm of berimbau tempted her to study capoeira after returning to Greece. She now spends her Saturdays carried away by the sound of samba, taught in her studio, and exploring the deep relation of body and soul harmony through yoga exercises and meditation.
In 2006, together with Frosso, Konstandina founded Modulor Dance Space. Her most treasured days are those she spent initiating youngsters to the secret world of artistic expression and body harmony through ballet. Her students can benefit from her experience and knowledge on pilates, but she also encourages them to turn to other arts or techniques, since the studio offers ballet, yoga and capoeira classes, and explore their potential.
Konstantina Drosopoulou is one of the founding members of the Greek Pilates Association.
Efrosini Voutsina
Born in Athens, she studied dance at Sofia’s Pancho Vladigerov Music Academy, receiving a degree in Ballet Technique/Teaching and a Master’s degree in Dance Composition. She continued studying modern dance in London (Jerwood Space, Greenwich Dance Agency, The Place) and New York (Movement Research, Dance Space Center). She experimented with kung fu, tai chi chuan, aikido, contact improvisation and yoga techniques and is a certified power pilates instructor. As a dancer, she has worked with Greek and foreign choreographers like S. Smailou, N. Zouka, S. Spiratou, Carol Brown, Marie Gabrielle Rotie et al. In 2010, she presented her first choreographic work entitled Pendulum.
Maria Nikoloulea
Maria Nikoloulea started studying ballet in Athens at a very young age. However, the greatest part of her professional training took place in London, one of the world’s most vibrant and progressive centres for dance, where she gained most of her experience. In 2000 she graduated from London Middlessex University, receiving a degree in Dance and she continued studying in The Place, one of London’s oldest and most acknowledged advanced dance schools, for one year, receiving a “one-year certificate” in Modern Dance. For five years she was a member of the Richard Alston Dance Company, one of the most distinguished British dance groups, working with acclaimed choreographers, teachers and talented dancers and gaining invaluable experience. In 2007, always with an insatiable need to explore new fields in movement and physical exercise, she attended seminars on pilates in Laban School, London, and received an instructor’s certificate from the Pilates Foundation. In 2009 she found herself in Athens, in Modulor Dance Space, where she started giving pilates classes to adults and ballet children’s classes.
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Comfortable exercise clothes, socks.
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