S5 Ep. 6 | Now Entering Our Pilates Era 🤍🩰🫧
S5 Ep. 6 | Now Entering Our Pilates Era 🤍🩰🫧
Pilates Brought Outside of the Studio
Holistic Healing for Women on the Road to Reentry.
In today's episode we're taking wellness to the mat, the pilates mat that is. Join me and Lisa Coffee-Smith, Owner and Director of Instructor Training at Total Pilates Studio located in Tulsa Oklahoma. According to the Sentencing Project, as of 2021 Oklahoma had the 3rd largest female incarceration rate in the country. However, at the time that Lisa connected with Resonance, a local nonprofit working with women and families tied up in the penal system, Oklahoma had the highest rate of female incarceration.
In an effort to meet the needs of women impacted by the system in a way that felt authentic to her, Lisa reached out to Resonance and offered her services teaching women coming home the art of pilates. Lisa spent four years prior to the pandemic working with women of all different skill level, creating a safe space for them to heal and feel encouraged to stay committed to something that would make them stronger (physically and mentally). In today's episode Lisa recounts her time instructing women over those four years and how that's shaped her practice even today.
If you would like to stay connected with Lisa you can visit her studio's website at Total Pilates Studio or visit and follow them on Instagram. For anyone interested in supporting Resonance, you can donate to the nonprofit by clicking the link here.
Luke 5:31
Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick."
