Pilates By Rena

Rena Lichtblau is a movement specialist certified in the Pilates Method through Body Harmonics in Toronto and The Physical Mind Institute in New York City. After experiencing the many benefits and joys of the GYROTONIC EXPANSION SYSTEM® and GYROKINESIS® methodologies, she began studying and training with renowned Master Trainer Hilary Cartwright in New York City and now holds the distinction of being one of the first certified GYROTONIC® trainers and studio owners in Toronto. Her clientele span the spectrum from professional athletes training sport-specific motion to physical rehabilitation patients to the work-out novice desiring a leaner, fitter, highly toned body.

Having graduated with a Masters Degree in Media Ecology at New York University (1997), Rena is both compassionate and critical of the potentially damaging preponderance of media that standardize manufactured images of prototypical bodies and defined beauty. She speaks and lectures to groups of young girls and women on the individual’s power to debunk and discredit established beauty myths by elevating one’s sense of self and strengthening the body/mind/spirit awareness through positivism and the practice of Pilates and the GYROTONIC® methodology.