Tag archives: pilates

Finding Your Groove: Inside the Joyful World of Groove Pilates
By Zach Rosen   |   August 12, 2025

Step into Groove Pilates, and the first thing you’ll notice isn’t the state-of-the-art reformers or the sleek tower units that look like steampunk yoga machines. It’s not even the bright natural light streaming, or the glimpses of the glistening Pacific and mountain scenes peeking through the second-story windows above Coast Village Road. It’s the energy. […]

Pilates With Astrid de Wild
By Ann Brode   |   February 14, 2023

“Each person that comes to me has something to teach me, to this day that is the truth, I keep learning.” Astrid de Wild brought Pilates instruction to Santa Barbara in 1992. Since then, she has helped thousands of people attain their fitness and healing goals. She is one of those extraordinary professionals who bring […]

Wellness Providers
By Montecito Journal   |   January 12, 2023

Elevated, Luxurious Dental Practice Cosmetics, Implants, & Aesthetics Serving the Santa Barbara & Montecito Community Hlavaty Dental Arts737 Garden Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101(805) 564-3600www.hlavatydentalarts.com Nonprofit wellness organization whose mission is to build a healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. Montecito Family YMCA591 Santa Rosa LaneMontecito, CA 93108(805) 969-3288www.ciymca.org/montecito Premium personal training services including Private […]

Fox’s 5Rhythms: Dance as Medicine
By Steven Libowitz   |   February 14, 2019

Kiaora Fox came to 5Rhythms in installments. While she had studied body mechanics and the movement of energy since childhood and was raised with a wide array of healing arts and mindfulness tools in the Gurdjieff mystic lineage, Lakota Sioux traditions, and Huna philosophy, among others, she only came across 5Rhythms at age 18 when […]