About

LILY HOROWITZ
Founder, The Core Method® and Kidlates®
What if all the strength you need is already within you?
The Core Method® (TCM) is a smart total body sequenced mat class that will work you from head to toe. Our 1-hour class of core-focused movements strengthens essential muscles you never even knew existed. The Core Method combines the founding principles of Pilates with the benefits of physical therapy and strength training to create a one-of-a-kind, creative and challenging class that leaves you stronger, taller and more balanced.
Core Method founder, Lily, learned to teach the Pilates mat work with a classical approach but when she found that some of the cuing didn’t flow the way she had been accustomed to teaching, she adjusted the work to make smart body sense. Focused entirely on the mat, The Core Method is accessible anywhere at home or on the go, using body weight as its main resistance.
The Power of Your Core
The Core Method approach strengthens core muscles, lengthens the body, adjusts posture and aids in better balance. It’s ideal for any age, so that you can achieve your fitness goals and your life goals.
Meet Lily
The Core Method was founded in 1998 by Lily Horowitz, a leading certified Pilates instructor with over 30 years of experience in the fitness industry.
Lily was first exposed to Pilates 19 years ago as a student of the method. After personally realizing the benefits of the work, seeing changes in her own body and physical ability, she was then trained and certified.
Since then, Lily developed the Core Method: an instructional method based on the founding principles of Joseph H. Pilates and the integration of other core development techniques to create a total body experience for her clients.
Lily is also the founder of Kidlates® and has done extensive work with children at all levels of ability. In collaboration with a variety of professionals, including: pediatricians, child psychologists, occupational therapists, physical therapists and speech therapists, Lily has emerged with a method and a program that can be applied to children both learning challenged and non learning challenged. Click here more information on the Kidlates® method!
Classes On Site or Virtually
We offer Core Method Circuit classes in our storefront in Northbrook, Ill. on the reformer, tower and chair. Done in groups of three in 20 minute increments, these give a total body workout using equipment only.
CORE METHOD SUCCESS STORIES
“It’s Lily or Lipo – Lily has changed my entire body!”
— LB
“I have been a client for many years and before meeting Lily my lower body was way bigger than my upper body. Today, my body looks completely different and my hips are now in perfect proportion with my upper body!”
“I went to look for dresses for my son’s wedding and my sales person, who’s known me for years, asked me if I had a butt lift. Thanks Lily!”
— MHB
“My stomach is flatter and my legs are toned!”
— BB
“I used to be very unaware of my body and its neutral; now I can catch myself sitting out of neutral and then I hear Lily’s voice and remember N2S: navel to spine.”
— SF
“I grew an inch!!!!” — JB
“The Core Method® is better than spanx ‘cause it shaped my body so I no longer need spanx!”
— EF
“I fit into pants I haven’t fit into for 5 years!”
— MW
“My posture has changed and my uneven shoulders are no longer uneven.”
— NL
“I have osteo and a compression fracture in my spine. Not only has Lily helped my change my posture, I grew an inch at my last doctor appointment and my compression fracture is moving back into place.”
— LD
“I’ve been a client for many years, when I first started I couldn’t lift a 3 pound weight, now I can do twice that and my entire body has changed! Recently at my son’s wedding, I wanted to wear a banner saying “body by Lily””
— MB
