Push Pilates at the Envision Experience

Push Pilates' services are now being offered downtown at the Envision Experience.

Push Pilates is dedicated to helping people discover health and happiness in their lives. A combination of professional and innovative teaching in an elegant environment makes Push Pilates an excellent choice to rejuvenate both mind and body. Often people tell us that they want to get stronger to do Pilates or more flexible to do yoga. We cultivate the idea that we are all students and continue to learn everyday. We welcome the opportunity to work with all body types, levels and ages.

Val Russell is a certified Pilates and Yoga instructor. She began her Pilates training in 1998 at The Ellie Herman Studios in San Francisco, CA. She furthered her education in rehab Pilates with Lizz Roman. And has studied at the Pilates Center in Boulder. She is a certified trainer with the Pilates Method Alliance and Push Pilates is affiliated with the Pilates Method Alliance. Val's yoga training is through OM Yoga in New York with Cindi Lee and Midtown Yoga in Memphis with Sarla Nichols. Val has also studied with Hart Lazar, Richard Freeman and Jennifer Brilliant.

Val opened Push Pilates in 2002 where she began training out of a spare bedroom. And has grown the studio into a 3300 square foot house on Union Avenue. The programming has expanded to include yoga, massage, workshops, continuing education, Teacher Training, and a clothing line, PUSH wear.

Val combines an evolved Pilates repertoire with physical therapy methods using tools such as the Feldenchreist foam roller, small balls, physio-balls, flex bands, magic circles and now YOGA.
Val continually strives to integrate her fine art background and love of bodywork by offering current, fresh and creative bodywork and movement to the Memphis community.