I have been training with Lucy at the La Jolla Sporting Club since 2013 and followed her to her new studio, Soulution. I have been doing Pilates on and off since the late 80s and have worked with a lot of trainers, but by far, Lucy is the best! I came to her with an injured hip, after having seen a general practitioner, an orthopedic surgeon who specializes in hip injuries, three months of 2x a week physical therapy, and a rolfer. The orthopedic surgeon wanted to do surgery, of course, and physical therapy only eased my pain by about 20%. Neither option was acceptable to me. Two single sessions with a rolfer and 3x a week with Lucy (1 private, 2 group reformer classes) helped to ease my hip pain ALMOST IMMEDIATELY down to 98% pain-free. I only feel pain very occasionally, and that is when I have not done Pilates in awhile and my hip area starts to get stiff and it is difficult to move. One or two sessions with Lucy and my hips are working again! I give Lucy all the credit for my recovery because she kept on me to keep doing my Pilates exercises, both with her and at home. She is an excellent trainer ad Pilates practitioner. Lucy knows EXACTLY what she is doing and how to coax the best and most productive session from even the most recalcitrant client (that would be ME). Her knowledge of the body and how to work with or around sensitive or painful areas is unrivaled. As I said, after a few regular and consistent sessions with Lucy on the reformer, my hip pain was gone gone GONE!
Thanks to Lucy, I have grown to love Pilates so much that I bought my own reformer and Pilates chair and Lucy taught me how to use those machines on my own, although I did continue to work with her at the gym and at her studio. It worked out really great because my husband and I ended up moving 500 miles north to the Bay Area earlier this year and aside from the sticker shock at the cost of living here, I have not yet found the right person or Pilates studio to train with/at, so I do the exercises that Lucy prescribed to me on my machines at home. Yes, Lucy has set a very high bar in terms of the quality of her teaching, her knowledge of the human body, and her use of rehabilitative exercises/techniques. I very highly recommend Pilates training with Lucy! read more