Our Story

Mara Kimowitz, Founder

StretchSource was conceptualized by creator, Mara Kimowitz, in 1998.  At the time, Mara was a Physical Therapy Assistant in New York City.  She worked along side top industry physical therapists who offered some of the best treatments available.  Even with the completion of care, many patients would return months later re-injured.  In addition to rehabilitation, people needed preventative training.  There was a missing gap in the fitness and wellness industry and it would take Mara two decades and two other careers to figure out exactly what people needed.

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As a professional dancer, Mara worked with renowned dance companies including Mark Morris Dance Group and The Metropolitan Opera.  After retiring from dance, Mara owned a personal training business in Hoboken, NJ.   In search of the golden technique that would fill in the gap of preventative care, Mara acquired several certifications including pilates, Gyrotonics, yoga, and more. However, none seemed to fill the gap between rehabilitation and preventative training in the manner in which Mara felt would be most effective.  She thus created StretchSource, LLC.  StretchSource is in it's own category of fitness and wellness.  Using her vast experience with mobility training as a professional dancer and personal trainer, Mara designed StretchSource as a discipline that is not flexibility training and it is not physical therapy. StretchSource is a unique and innovative form of assisted partnered stretch training and it is the only one of it's kind available today!