JESSIE ZALLA passionately believes that movement heals.
Through hands-on guidance and thoughtful movement instruction, Jessie adapts to the diverse needs of her clients. Her classes inspire better posture and a reconnection to inner strength and bone health. The goal is for her clients to achieve movement with ease and efficiency through building a strong supple spine, whole body strength, improved breath capacity, restored vitality and an elevated spirit.
Jessie has taught Pilates, dance, breath work, movement meditations and anatomy since 1997.
At a very young age I had a knack for understanding the body and a gift for using my touch. I could feel where the body held tension and how to quell that tension with my own hands.
I was fascinated with the body and leaned into understanding health my whole life.
As a child I would play health food store and lead pretend classes on how to use your body. As an adult I became a professional dancer to better know and feel my own body. I loved nature and all that nature could provide us with. I was attracted to natural ways of healing and natural supplements. And as a grown woman I caught on quickly to physics and psychology, neuroplasticity and epigenetics.
After a career in dance I found my own body was very out of balance. My body was in chronic pain. I had low back herniations, crippling nerve pain in my right leg, a bum knee, an achy hip and tension from head to toe. This is when I decided to change my career, I dedicated my practice to Pilates, at the age of 25. I didn’t realize it, but the career I was choosing was going to teach me everything and more about embodiment as I know it today.
IN JESSIE’S WORDS
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