Studio 400 & Santosha Pilates, LLC, Portland OR

Mandee is a wonderful teacher! Even though I've been doing Pilates for many years, I always learn something new from her. She comes up with new ways to challenge us, and she really cares for each one of her students. She is an ultimate professional and kind beyond compare. If you haven't had a chance to take one of Mandee's classes, don't wait.

Mandee's Mat Pilates classes are always excellent. She does a great job of guiding us through different exercises for core, balance, coordination and strengthening. Mandee is constantly giving each of us feedback so that we can do the exercises correctly. Each class is unique too. I look forward to Monday mornings with Mandee.

Mandee is an amazing pilates instructor and person. She is a great leader and makes her practices accessible to all levels. I especially appreciate the way she blends holistic health into her practices and offers exercises for the mind and body. I highly recommend her classes and her retreat as a way to take good care of yourself!

I've worked with Mandee for nearly a decade and cannot say enough good things about her and her teaching style. She wants you to have the best experience possible, gives great cues throughout the workout so your body is doing it properly and will tailor pilates/yoga moves to accommodate any injuries or body issues you have. She is also great at teaching you stretches and things to do to enable your body to heal. I have done everything from personal pilates sessions to group classes to zoom classes to toddler yoga at her studio. Mandee has a consistent warm, positive energy and truly wants her students to get the best from her teachings.

Mandee is a great instructor. She really knows her stuff and communicates well. She is fully committed to the success of each of her students.

Mandee is an exceptionally kind, talented, and empathetic movement professional. Mandee encourages practices, habits, and mindsets that lead to physical and mental well-being. I highly recommend all of Mandee's offerings.

If you only do one thing for yourself today, join a pilates class (or any class) with Mandee. Your life will change and you will be so glad you took the step. Mandee is an instructor that could really make a difference to you and your body. Plus, added bonus, she is the sweetest person ever!

Attending the All About The Pelvic Floor Course was an absolute game-changer for me! Mandee's expertise and approachable teaching style made learning about pelvic floor health not only informative but also enjoyable. The exercises and techniques I learned have empowered me to take control of my well-being, and I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to improve their pelvic floor strength and overall quality of life. Thank you, Mandee!

I started private sessions with Mandee during a slow recovery from a car accident, and immediately felt better after the first session. She was able to quickly identify my body's misalignments through her postural assessment, and then gave me a specific series of movements and exercises to get my body into a more correct alignment. Before I went to her, I had been doing exercises recommended by my PT, but didn't feel that my pain was improved by it, and I wasn't getting stronger or getting to the point where I could start adding much resistance into my routine. Mandee's customized approach was the missing element in my recovery, which starts all the way back at the basic fundamental level of proper body mechanics and alignment. I realized that without attending to this piece first, the structural imbalance in my body was hindering my recovery and making it harder to heal. I also became aware that many or most of us have at least minor imbalances in our posture and alignment that we don't even realize until an injury occurs (or a chronic pain from the poor posture develops!). Now that my hips and shoulders can move the way they were designed to (in their sockets and with correct range of motion, etc.), my pain is lessened, my body can focus on healing. I am getting a detailed summary of each session through email, with customized cueing and other tips to help me remember what we did, so that I can do the movements correctly on my own in-between sessions or remember any modifications she may have given me for a certain movement. I plan to continue to see her for several more sessions, until I get to a point where I can manage with a maintenance routine with her on-demand library of focused movement sessions, or the live classes. It is night and day to how I feel now, and anytime I feel something creeping back into play, I can go back to her basic reset in the on-demand videos or refer to my "homework emails", which also include custom-selected links to any of the on-demand videos that specifically correct whatever imbalances I have, which changes over time as the alignment issues evolve.

I continue to be grateful for Mandee's passionate dedication to this unique approach and her ability to guide me in this personalized, amazingly effective journey toward wellbeing.

As a health care professional, as well as someone experiencing this success firsthand, it is my hope that this concept of "movement therapy" will become more recognized in the rehab world, as I fully believe this is a game changer. Not only do I recommend Mandee's program to anyone suffering from an injury/accident, but to anyone who wants to improve their wellbeing from a holistic, whole-body approach.

Mandee is such a life changer.
I lived with chronic pain for over a decade and tried everything, she was what really changed things for me. This is like PT on steroids. Mandee really retrains you to use your body in a holistic and gentle way by teaching body awareness, posture, and stability. I send her all of my patients! So grateful for Mandee.