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I specialize in post-rehabilitation work.
I love to help people with low back pain, arthritis, obesity,MS, injury recovery and the like.
One day I hope to also be experienced in Pilates and Structural Integration for Little People. I just need Little people clients!

"Before opening Bodies in Balance in 1998, Shelly spent two years teaching Pilates-based rehabilitative...

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I specialize in post-rehabilitation work.
I love to help people with low back pain, arthritis, obesity,MS, injury recovery and the like.
One day I hope to also be experienced in Pilates and Structural Integration for Little People. I just need Little people clients!

"Before opening Bodies in Balance in 1998, Shelly spent two years teaching Pilates-based rehabilitative exercises to patients at a physical therapy clinic. Her experience includes athletic conditioning and rehabilitation with post-operative and fibromyalgia patients, people with obesity, and osteo and rheumatoidarthritis. She has also worked with ballet and modern dancers, and was the Pilates teacher for the artists of Cirque du Soleil's Corteo in Portland."

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Subject

Pilates

Ages

All ages

Skill level

All difficulty levels

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Where

  • Portland, OR

    Willing to travel up to 10 miles

Type

  • 1:1 / Private Lessons
  • Class / Group Sessions

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  • "Absolutely the best!"

      • 5/5 stars
    • Jane Baum CPA

    Review of Private Lessons, June 03, 2009

    I have been taking privates lessons from Shelly for over 10 years. She took me from somene who needed three pillows under my head to lay down flat to an agile, fluid strong women that ballroom dances evey week at age 61. I still improve all the time with Shelly's care and teaching.

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    I have been taking privates lessons from Shelly for over 10 years. She took me from somene who needed three pillows under my head to lay down flat to an agile, fluid strong women that ballroom dances evey week at age 61. I still improve all the time with Shelly's care and teaching.

    • Pros:
    • Helpful, Engaging, Encouraging, Smart, Patient, Funny, Fun, Good communicator
    • How was this location?:
    • Awesome
    • How was the price?:
    • OK

    I would recommend this teacher


  • "Taking the mystery out of learning Anatomy"

    Review of Shelly Stephenson, October 17, 2009

    The Anatomy in Clay workshop was one of those weekend workshops that you didn't want to end! I recently attended this workshop taught by Shelly Stephenson at Bodies In Balance studio located in downtown Portland, Or. and it was both amazing & fun! Building the muscles of the body out of clay and attaching them to the Maniken was one fascinating discovery after another and I can't begin to tell you how much I got out of this workshop! I have attempted to study and learn anatomy before but after the first hour of our Anatomy in Clay class it was as if we opened up a new chapter on Anatomy that I had never seen before!

    Thank You Shelly for creating such a warm, friendly, and non intimidating, atmosphere for us to all learn in during the Anatomy in Clay workshop and for being so willing to share all that you have learned on your journey! I love it.

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    The Anatomy in Clay workshop was one of those weekend workshops that you didn't want to end! I recently attended this workshop taught by Shelly Stephenson at Bodies In Balance studio located in downtown Portland, Or. and it was both amazing & fun! Building the muscles of the body out of clay and attaching them to the Maniken was one fascinating discovery after another and I can't begin to tell...

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    • Pros:
    • Helpful, Engaging, Encouraging, Smart, Patient, Funny, Fun, Good communicator
    • How was this location?:
    • OK
    • How was the price?:
    • OK

    I would recommend this teacher


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