Powerline Pilates + Wellness

Perpetually fascinated with movement and the question of how to live well in the human body, Powerline founder Nicole Richter has worked professionally with the body for over thirty years. She began teaching Pilates in 2002 as she began raising her two phenomenal children, establishing Powerline Pilates + Wellness in 2015. 

 

A bit of a tomboy/jock/nerd who fell in love with dance 'late' at the age of nineteen, Nicole danced full-time professionally for over a decade. In the years since, she has trained as a master Pilates trainer, a certified orthopedic manual therapist, a postural alignment specialist, and as a certified life coach with a specialization in ADHD. Each of these strands now figures deeply in both her life-practice and her professional life. (And yes, she still dances.) 

​

Along the way, her mission as a movement specialist became more clear. As a Pilates trainer, she didn't want to 'just work people out.' As a manual therapist, she didn't want to just give massages (even really effective ones). Instead, she became intent on finding the most effective means to get the body moving well and keeping it that way.

 

The result is her Body ReMAP method of movement and fitness training.

 

Body ReMAP incorporates 1) Myofascial release work, 2) Alignment training, and 3) Pilates-based strengthening in a singularly effective partnership. At its root is the belief that to achieve lasting change for the body, it is imperative to apply all three elements in conjunction: release to align to strengthen. And over time, the profound level of improvement for her Body ReMAP clients became so remarkable that Nicole felt compelled to offer it exclusively, in 80-minute remote or in-person sessions customized to each client's specific body 'map'.

​​​

Body ReMAP is based on the following key principles:

​

1) It is impossible to strengthen a body well in poor alignment.

​

So, you need to align effectively first. However:

 

2) It is extremely difficult to align a body that has developed entrenched muscular imbalances over time.

 

(So, pretty much all of us.) Thus:

 

3) It is imperative to release any tight or restricted areas first. Then align. Then strengthen. 

 

Once you release what's tight or restricted, your body's weak underperforming muscles actually have a fighting chance to start working. Which means you can actually start to align your body in its (long-lost, for most of us) proper natural alignment. Which means you will now (literally) be in a position to most effectively strengthen the weaker areas in your own particular body map. Which makes for less pain and greater ease of healthy alignment. (Phew!)

​

But (dammit!):

​

4) Those same alignment habits (usage patterns, unresolved injuries, genetic factors, etc) that led to muscle imbalance in the first place are likely to sabotage the improvement, just in the living of your daily life. 

 

Unless (!!):

 

5) You are actively fine-tuning and practicing those improved ways of being and moving. And by so doing, re-habituating your daily practices to natural healthy alignment and movement. 

 

ln short, all the Pilates (yoga, Crossfit, cardio, massage) in the world will not, by itself, provide what your body needs to recognize, address and reverse the cycle of errant alignment and usage habits that lead, over years or decades, to imbalanced muscularity (and its concordant woes) to begin with. 

 

To address those things comprehensively and lastingly, you need to:

​

release

to align

to strengthen

to practice

​

Intelligently -- which means specifically to your body's muscular and alignment map.  

​

That's Body ReMAP. 

​

Because we only have one body. Living in it should be a joy. 

​

​