Fitness instructor Krisen Day recently relocated from Massachusetts to St. George, and brought
The Fix: Physical Restoration & Pilates with her. The studio will begin offering the following new services this summer:
Private lessons include:
- Personalized program design for the studio, office, home, or gym
- Injury prevention and/or injury recovery focus
- Application of Pilates concepts to daily life
- A full line of Pilates equipment at the studio
- Rotational sports assessment (great for golfers, tennis players, and runners)
- Gait analysis (great for hikers)
Group classes and workshops include:
- Lower back restoration
- Core to sport integration
- Hamstring flexibility
- Balance strength and flexibility
- Improving posture
- 65 and over – movement is not a number
- Teens – body image and confidence
- Reformer and mat classes
The Fix is a multi-studio facility that accommodates customized physical restoration via individual movement analysis. Programs focused on self-healing are created for each student, utilizing various resistance and cardiovascular training, mindful practices, and manual techniques that match students’ specific needs in private, semi-private, independent, and group settings. The studio is equipped for multiple needs and includes the full line of Pilates equipment. Pilates products are also available for sale.
The Fix encourages what is right for students by educating them about themselves, and then providing them with a practical structure for self-aware physical restoration.
Pilates was named after its German-born developer, Joseph Pilates, who suffered from a multitude of illnesses resulting in muscular weakness. Determined to overcome his frailties, he dedicated his life to becoming physically stronger. He studied yoga, martial arts, Zen meditation, and Greek and Roman exercises, and worked with medical professionals, including physicians and his wife, Clara, a nurse. His experiences led to the development of his unique method, which he used to rehabilitate wounded soldiers during World War I. Soon after, it was adopted by the dance community and embraced by popular dance instructors and choreographers such as Martha Graham, George Balanchine, and Jerome Robbins.
Most people know Pilates today as a form of exercise and stretching, which it is, but these aspects of the technique barely scrape the surface of the benefits of Pilates, especially when it is taught paired with Pilates equipment, and with the original intention of the technique in mind.
Born and raised in Wyoming, Day earned her Bachelor’s of Science
and dance degrees, with certifications in Pilates and Labanotation (a system of analyzing and notating movement), from Texas Woman’s University in 1996. She spent three years in Seattle, where, along with performing, she trained Seahawks players, Pacific Northwest Ballet dancers, and was the director of rehabilitation for the Washington High School for Performing Arts.
After moving to the East Coast, Day split her time between Massachusetts and New York pursuing a dance and film career. She owned and operated three Pilates studios, taught at UMASS, Mt. Holyoke College, the University of Hartford, Cooley Dickinson Hospital, and guest lectured for several sports teams, health organizations, and performance groups.
Along with certifications from the PhysicalMind Institute, Physical Conditioning Center, and Polestar Pilates Education, she received advanced certifications in Pilates-based neurological rehabilitation, rotational sports assessment, and gait analysis from Polestar. She is also a certified kettlebell instructor with Kettlebell Concepts, and has further training though Polestar’s rehabilitation series, MELT, and Hanna Somatic Education.
She founded Prana Physical Arts and Momentum Pilates Centers prior to opening The Fix in 2006, intending to remind everyone that by restoring physical health, we can renew our lives. Day’s choreographic and performaning endeavors give her a platform to experiment with her ongoing interests in body dynamics, limits, and functions, as well as relationships and perspective. She moved to St. George to be closer to family.
