Vania

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Vania is a Stott certified pilates instructor and acrobat. Her energy, imagination, tenacity, and hyper-mobility are what made her successful in the circus arts. She got into pilates as a very injured acrobat who reached a crossroads of giving up circus life or rehabilitating to be able to train and perform again. While it may seem counterintuitive, Vania struggled enormously with pilates because it concerns exactly what she's not naturally good at: stability, coordination, proprioception, and dialing into deeper awareness and vulnerability. In her experience, dedicating time to learn weaker pathways made her practice and daily life much more dimensional and deep. While there is redundancy in the body, Vania believes we are most successful if these pathways can work together as a symphony to prevent overuse of one-- which leads to burnout and injury. Additionally, pilates brought out the underbelly of Vania's personality to balance out her dominant personality traits-- concentration and a love for details. However, having struggled so much with learning pilates, Vania has the experience to support others who are not naturals and having the trust that things will come together. To her, acrobatics is like eating a delicious meal and pilates is like flossing so your teeth don’t rot.