Renee Ricca's Pilates Center

12/11/2025

Stretching on the BOZU🤍✨

Key Benefits🗝️

👉Improves balance and stability

👉Strengthens your core while you stretch

👉Releasing the hamstrings and then curling back into the lower lumbar spine

👉Reduces pressure on your joints

👉Increases spinal mobility

👉Enhances body awareness and alignment

👉Boosts circulation and warms up the body

12/11/2025

12/09/2025

⏩⏩Mastering Criss Cross on the Wunda Chair:

🍃Builds deep core strength by targeting the obliques and transverse abdominis.

🍃Improves spinal rotation for better mobility and functional movement.

🍃Enhances stability and balance through controlled twisting on an unstable surface.

🍃Strengthens hip flexors while maintaining proper alignment.

🍃Refines coordination between breath, rotation, and leg movement.

🍃Promotes better posture by engaging the entire powerhouse.

12/05/2025

Advanced Variation of Arabesque on the Contrology Tower

12/01/2025

✨ PILATES DOWN STRETCH BENEFITS ✨

🔥 Opens the entire front body
Lengthens tight hip flexors, chest, and abdominals—perfect for undoing hours of sitting.

💪 Strengthens your backside
Glutes, hamstrings, and back extensors all fire to support strong, upright posture.

🌟 Improves spinal mobility
Encourages safe thoracic extension to ease stiffness and enhance flexibility.

🦋 Stabilizes the shoulders
Footbar support teaches proper scapular engagement and upper-body strength.

🎯 Builds deep core control
Extension doesn’t mean no abs—your core stays active to protect the lower back.

⚡ Boosts overall energy
A full-body opener that leaves you feeling awake, lifted, and aligned.

Try adding Down Stretch to your next Reformer session for a powerful reset!

11/27/2025

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃I am grateful for our community here in Aventura!
Yes—we’re open on Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday. Stop by for a quick sweat, a deep stretch, and zero holiday guilt. 😉

While you’re here, lock in your next career move:
Classical Comprehensive Teacher Training — Advanced Level with Reneé Ricca
January 9–11, 2026 (Aventura)

Why train with Reneé?

Second-Generation to Joseph Pilates (trained by Carola Trier)—true classical lineage.

25+ years teaching pros: precise progressions, tactile cueing, and results that hold.

System, not snippets: breath → setup → transitions → flow you can defend and deliver.

Clinical credibility: loved by Physical Therapists for biomechanics clarity and reproducible outcomes.

Teach with command: elevate your cueing, sharpen your eye, and build sessions clients feel and remember.

Grab your mat this week (we’re open!), then apply via link in bio for the Advanced cohort. Limited spots—serious teachers & committed enthusiasts only.

11/26/2025

🥰Clara's Spine Corrector💥

🔑Benefits

✨Improves posture,

✨Increases core strength, strength, and flexibility ,

✨Provides spinal extension & alignment .

11/24/2025

🌸Advanced Side Bend /
🧜‍♀️Mermaid on the Cadillac🌸

Why you need to master this exercise?

✨Improves lateral flexibility and spinal mobility.

✨Strengthens obliques, QL, and deep core stabilizers.

✨Opens the ribs and increases lateral breathing capacity.

✨Enhances shoulder stability and scapular control.

✨Promotes better rib–pelvis alignment and posture.

✨Provides a safe, supported stretch for tight hips and side body

That's enough reason to push through your limits!
Join our classes Now!

# SideBend

11/13/2025

🦢Swan on the Spine Corrector🦢

Raffaela Nailed it! 🙌Great Job!

Here are some Key Benefits of Mastering the Swam on the spine corrector;

✨Enhances spinal extension & thoracic mobility
✨Strengthens the posterior chain
✨Improves posture & chest opening
✨Develops core control & body awareness
✨Provides a versatile progression

🌸Come, Move with us!

11/02/2025

What’s standing between you and a stronger, more confident teaching style? Two afternoons with Renée might just be the answer. 👣

The November 8 & 9 Footwork Workshop is your last chance this year to dig into the classical work with clarity, purpose, and CECs in hand.

🧠 Real teaching insights
👣 Better movement patterns
📣 Immediate upgrades to your cueing + client results

🗓️ 1–5PM EST | In-house or Virtual
🎓 Earn 16 CECs toward your NPCP renewal

✨ Spots are limited. Don’t wait for “next year” energy.

Life is better in the Pilates Studio.