Power & Poise
Strength that doesn't brace. Ease that isn't fragile. Private Pilates and Structural Integration for people who want to move through their lives — and their years — with more of both.
The approach
Two disciplines, one idea
Most of us develop a strategy for getting through the day: hold here, grip there, push through. It works — until it doesn't, and the strategy itself becomes the ache, the stiffness, the sense that your body is working against you. The trouble usually isn't one weak part. It's how the parts relate — how you meet gravity, how you breathe, where you grip and where you've gone quiet.
Power & Poise brings together two ways of changing that. Pilates teaches you to move differently — to find strength in how the parts work together rather than in effort alone, to work with gravity instead of against it, and to let your breath set the pace. Structural Integration works hands-on, reorganizing the body's map and connective tissue, easing the old pattern of the parts to better integrate and coordinate as a whole. At their core, they're doing the same thing — one with movement, the other with touch.
Attention first
Every session begins with noticing — how you stand, how you breathe, where you grip and where you've gone quiet. Attention comes before effort, because the pattern you can feel is the pattern you can change.
Just enough effort
Effort is a tool, not a virtue. Some of it belongs in the work; some is just habit — the clenched jaw, the lifted shoulders, the held breath. We keep the first kind and learn to set the second down.
Change that keeps
A session should outlast the hour. You'll leave with something small to practice — a way of standing, sitting, or walking that lets gravity and breath keep doing the work between sessions.
Pilates
Private Pilates, taught one body at a time
Private, one-on-one Pilates in Boulder — Reformer, chair, and mat. Every session is built around your body, not a set routine: attention first, curiosity over correction, and learning to find just enough effort. Singles and 5- and 10-packs; rates on request.
Some people come to get stronger for the things they love. Some come because something hurts and they're out of patience with it. Most come with a bit of both. Wherever you start, the session starts there too.
- Work with gravity, not against it. The apparatus is arranged so the ground and the springs do some of the teaching — support where you're not yet strong, challenge where you are.
- A teacher's eye on every rep. One-on-one, there's nowhere for a compensation to hide — and no need for one. Curiosity replaces correction.
- Progress you can feel. Sessions build on each other, so strength, balance, and ease accumulate week over week.
Single session
A good first step. Come in, be seen, and find out what this work can do — with no commitment beyond the hour.
Five-session package
Enough runway for the basics to stop feeling new and start feeling yours — the rhythm most steady weekly work settles into.
Ten-session package
The full arc. Ten sessions is where most people stop thinking about the exercises and start noticing their life feels different.
For current rates and availability, get in touch — you'll hear back personally, not from a booking robot.
Structural Integration
The Ten Series: a beginning, a middle, and an integration
Structural Integration is hands-on work with fascia — the continuous web of connective tissue that wraps every muscle and gives the body its shape. When that web shortens or sticks, it holds you in yesterday's relationship with gravity. When it's eased and lengthened, standing upright stops being something you do and becomes something you are.
The work is traditionally given as a series of ten sessions, each with its own territory, building from the surface of the body toward its core and back out again. It is education as much as treatment: you learn your own structure as it changes, and how the parts come back into relationship.
Tap a session to see where the journey goes.
You don't need to finish all ten to benefit — but the series is designed as a whole, and the later hours are where the early work comes together.
About
Meet Leslie
Leslie pairs Pilates teaching with hands-on Structural Integration, and brings the same lens to both: the body as a whole, working in relationship — with gravity, with breath, with itself — rather than a collection of parts to be fixed. She studied Structural Integration at the Rolf Institute.
Her teaching is one-on-one and unhurried, shaped by years of watching how people actually move rather than how exercises say they should. That same whole-body lens — fascia-aware, pattern-aware, always curious about how the parts relate — shapes the way she cues a reformer session and the way she works on the table.
She works as an independent practitioner, teaching private Pilates sessions in Boulder, Colorado, and offering Structural Integration by arrangement.
Clients tend to find her when they want more than a workout and more than a quick fix — when they're ready to understand their own body and participate in changing it. If that sounds like you, you'll fit right in.
Good to know
Questions, answered plainly
Start with a single private session. Because the work is one-on-one, there's no level to reach first and nothing to keep up with — the session meets you where you are, and the apparatus does a surprising amount of the teaching. Wear comfortable clothes you can move in; grip socks if you like them.
In Pilates, you do the moving — Leslie guides, cues, and loads the movement so your body learns new options, with breath setting the pace. In Structural Integration, you receive hands-on work on a table while Leslie works with the fascia directly. One trains the pattern; the other frees the tissue the pattern lives in. Many clients do both — the two change how the whole body relates, from different directions.
No. The series is designed as an arc, and the deepest changes tend to come when it's completed — but a single session stands on its own, and plenty of people begin with one or two before deciding. Curiosity is a fine place to start.
Private Pilates sessions are held in Boulder, Colorado. Structural Integration sessions are arranged individually — reach out and we'll find the right setting and time.
Pilates sessions are offered singly or in packages of five or ten, so the work can build at a steady rhythm. Your place in your package is tracked for you — and when you're down to your last session, you'll get a friendly heads-up so there's no gap in your practice.
Begin
Start the conversation
Tell me a little about where you are and what you're hoping for. I read every message myself and reply personally — usually with a few times to choose from for a first session or a call.
- Emaillesliesnyder.pilates@gmail.com
- LocationBoulder, Colorado
- SessionsPrivate, one-on-one, by appointment