Pilates Bodies
About Us
Professional Pilates Instruction
Lisa Tobias owned a fully equipped studio in South Tampa for over 20 years but has now transitioned into a free lance pilates instructor in the Tampa Bay area. She is committed to helping each individual client realize the many amazing benefits of Pilates. The Pilates body is strong, streamlined in appearance, and performs optimally in all situations. As a highly trained and certified instructor, Lisa is experienced with creating workouts that can be customized to suit everyone from post-rehabilitation patients to high-level athletes. With a major emphasis on properly aligning the body and joint stability, Pilates is also the perfect complement to all other types of exercise and sports training. This workout will show you results, you will feel your best, and you will keep coming back for more.
About Us
Professional Pilates Instruction
Pilates Bodies is committed to helping each individual client realize the many amazing benefits of Pilates. The Pilates body is strong, streamlined in appearance, and performs optimally in all situations. We are experienced with creating workouts that can be customized to suit everyone from post-rehabilitation patients to high-level athletes. With a major emphasis on properly aligning the body and joint stability, Pilates is also the perfect complement to all other types of exercise and sports training. This workout will show you results, you will feel your best, and you will keep coming back for more.
Who is Pilates?
History
Jospeh H. Pilates was born in Germany in 1880. He was a sickly child who as an adolescent began to devote his life to becoming physically stronger and understanding the human body and mind. Through his experience with a variety of sports and rehabilitative methods he comprised his own form of body conditioning consisting of almost 500 Excersices. Pilates combines both Western and Eastern philosophies , uniting the mind and body in an effort to perform movements of varying difficulty with total control. Dancers have been including pilates in their weekly conditioning routines for decades, but more recently pilates has been discovered by pro athletes, models, and actor/actresses who have publicly credited pilates with helping them maintain their bodies in envious, top form!
Meet the Owner
Lisa Tobias
Owner
Lisa Tobias was introduced to Pilates as a dance major at USF. She was quickly hooked on this method of mind-body exercise that allowed her to develop more overall strength and flexibility, while fine-tuning movements to focus on weaker, smaller muscles.
After graduating Summa Cum Laude from USF, Lisa pursued her STOTT certification in pilates. She started Pilates Bodies in 2001 and has been blessed to share her passion for healthy movement by helping her clients feel pain-free while realizing their body’s full potential.
Outside of the Pilates studio, Lisa enjoys participating in many forms of exercise, all done through the filter of the pilates principles. She contributes pilates to the longevity of her own body being pain-free and injury-free for all these years!
Lisa has been married to her husband Bryan since 2000 and together they have 2 daughters that keep them perpetually busy and in constant prayer.