After suffering from lower back pain for 2 years I found Valerie. Prior to starting Pilates I tried acupuncture, physical therapy, massage, yoga, and chiropractic treatment. Nothing helped. It got so bad that I couldn’t stand for more than 10 minutes.
I finally decided to give Pilates a try. I was very lucky to find Valerie. She had also suffered from lower back pain and knew what I was going through. She has years of experience as a physical therapist and a Pilates trainer.
I have been seeing her weekly for over a year now and I have minimal back pain. I can stand and dance and be normal 30-something year old again. I can’t recommend Valerie highly enough and I thank her for all her help.
—Julia

Practicing Pilates at Stable Core has changed my body and changed the way I think.
Very quickly, I became stronger, more coordinated, and increasingly hopeful that I can become even healthier. At 52, I've finally found an exercise regime that works.
—Susan

Valerie is a knowledgeable, creative, and gifted teacher of Pilates. Her professional background in physical therapy gives her a solid foundation in understanding the human body. With this expertise, Valerie offers a unique approach to helping others find health and wholeness through Pilates.
I've been to numerous physical therapists, massage therapists, and chiropractors, but Valerie has been the only one who has been able to help me work through my limitations. Within the first few sessions of working with her, I had relief from a shoulder that had been aching me for months.
I am always amazed by her deep intuitive sense of the body... she can literally adjust me by a millimeter and it's a completely different experience. She has helped me to build a heightened awareness of my body by helping me to develop a sense of where I'm pushing too hard and where I need to hold back, or where I actually need to go to engage a muscle (usually deep in my core), that I never even knew could burn and shake!
—Meg

After almost a year of intermittent sciatica, I've avoided return trips to the chiropractor since I began taking classes.
—Michael

Over the years I've accumulated a variety of aches and pains, mostly the result of an overly sedentary lifestyle: a stiff neck, impinged rotator cuff, back pains, a touch of sciatica. Pilates exercises have been a great help in combating these problems and in improving my overall strength and posture. With her physical therapy training and experience, Valerie has been able to tailor the exercises to my own specific needs. Unlike other trainers I have worked with in the past, she knows how to make the exercises challenging while staying within safe limits. And her cheerful encouragement helps to keep me motivated!
—Steve