About Us

The Santa Barbara Pilates Studio Mission Statement.

The Santa Barbara Pilates Studio core mission is to provide the absolute best “one on one” fitness workout possible while maintaining the integrity set forth by Joseph H. Pilates, in a private, relaxing calm and quiet state of the art fitness facility.

Goals and values:

• We provide classical style Pilates based on hours of rigorous training from The Pilates Studio New York ™ founded by Joseph H. Pilates. We also provide basic Gyrotonics, TRX and ROM (Range Of Motion cardio) to round out our clients needs for a healthy active lifestyle.

• Purposely keeping our class size small we can maintain the “one on one” atmosphere our clients expect and deserve. We limit our group classes to a size of 4. We only offer Mat classes in a time that will not detract from our “one on one” work outs. You should never feel like your in a large meat-market gym with on lookers gawking in the wings waiting for their turn.

• The Santa Barbara Pilates Studio is locally owned and operated, furthermore the Santa Barbara Pilates Studio’s staff is carefully screened and professionally trained and certified. Covered by our workers compensation insurance and motivated by the clientele’s needs.

• Unlike most of our competition our staff are employees – not unsupervised, independent contractors. This means the Santa Barbara Pilates Studio is always looking out for the needs of our clients first. Just because your assigned trainer cannot come to work does not mean you miss your workout. All of our trainers can work with all of our clients giving the client integrity in the Classical Pilates workout they are accustom to and demand. And because the workout routine is custom tailored for the client by the studios master trainer Kristen Williams, the client enjoys the same level of workout they expect regardless of the assigned trainer.

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About our staff:

Kristen Williams

Kristen Williams Owner, Head Instructor.

Kristen Williams a classically trained professional dancer for more than 16 years, was able to rehabilitate an injured hamstring though Pilates.  A few years later Kristen suffered two very serious strokes!  Again, Kristen used Pilates for her own rehabilitation.  It was this life altering event that led Kristen to the power of Pilates. Kristen and her husband Matt Williams opened Creative Fitness in 1998.  In 2001 Creative Fitness became the Santa Barbara Pilates Studio and moved to its current location.  Kristen’s training has derived from many instructors,  however her primary Pilates instruction comes from The Pilates Studio New York with Bob Liekens & Romana Kryzanowska. Furthermore Kristen’s extensive background in Dance gives her a unique insight into the workings of the human body from a strength and agility perspective. Kristen’s client roster has included John Cleese, George Gaynes, Tom Hawkins jr, Bette Thompson, the very young, the elderly and many more.

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