About Our Founder

About Founder

Chandanna Mannedi, MPT (Ortho, Manual and Sports, Australia)

Dr. Chandanna holds a degree in Bachelors of Physiotherapy from Durgabai Deshmukh Hospital & Research Center, Hyderabad in 2005, then pursued her Master of Physiotherapy specialising in Orthopaedics, Manual Therapy & Sports from Australia.

Pilates was introduced to her as a part of the masters curriculum and she fell in love with the system of exercise. And from then there was no looking back, she took up more of Pilates courses and certified in DMA Clinical Pilates (Australia) and Stott Pilates Certification in Mat & Reformer (Canada).

Dr. Chandanna worked for few years in orthopaedic and sports settings with manual therapy and Pilates skills before setting up Flex Pilates Studio in 2014. And since then focused exclusively on the development of Pilates based Physiotherapy treatment system.

She has a special interest in muscle function and it’s movement patterns and in how these muscle and movement pattern imbalances contribute to painful conditions.

Today, she has extensive experience in combining both Pilates & Physiotherapy to give a client the at most result in achieving their goals. She manages a large clientele from sports and chronic pain sufferers.

Apart from Pilates she is also certified in Pilates based Barre workout and TRX training. Dr. Chandanna often travels around to attend workshops & upgrade on new Pilates and Physiotherapy techniques.

Our Mission

As someone whose childhood companion was pain and inflammation, Chandana empathises with people suffering from all kinds of pain and constraint because of lack of movement in the body. She conquered pain naturally and her mission is to ensure that everyone does too. Her remedies include Movement Therapy, Mind Body Alignment Therapy to restore body’s natural rhythm and becoming Pain Free to achieve holistic health. She is an expert Pain Detective who is trained to track the journey of your pain and enable you to say Goodbye to it through Movement Therapy.

Our Goal

To help people with pain take an active role in their recovery process so they can improve the quality of their lives and reduce their suffering. She accomplishes this by enabling you to use your body intelligence and showing you techniques that empower you to be the master of your mental, physical and emotional health.

Our Studio

Flex Pilates was established in 2014 by Chandana Mannedi, who saw the need for a Rehab based Pilates studio in the community. Built on solid science, but refined with varied personalities in mind, Flex offers many types of fitness regimes for any skill level. Check out our classes now to see what speaks to you.
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What we do

We not only provide premium, Reformer-based group Pilates classes and complete Pilates equipment Private classes, but we also teach classes using Mat Pilates, Barre, TRX, foam rollers, and more. Each of our classes brings a focus on economy of movement and do fewer repetitions in comparison to other exercise programs.
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