4-6 JUNE 2021
“The whole world
should be doing my
exercises, they’d be
happier…”
Joseph Pilates
The Pilates Summit is offering you 2 days of ongoing learning experiences online from the comfort of your own home, connecting to our worldwide Pilates community. Benefit from in depth webinars, workshops, workouts, masterclasses and meet your favorite Pilates Master Teachers live. Emerge in an inclusive, open and sharing online Pilates Community that we have the means to create together.
We strongly believe that anybody should benefit from the Pilates Method, as movement is changes and change is movement. During these difficult uncertain economic times, being a student of the Method should not be a luxury but be made accessible, no matter where you come from or where you are in the world.
Being a teacher is a privilege, providing service to people for greater health is a gift… a gift that people need more than ever. Let’s unite and contribute to Joe’s vision that « whole world should be doing my exercises, they’d be happier… ».
Invest this time where the universe had to pause to develop your skills, enhance your teaching, Deepen your practice and become a student of the Pilates Method again. Join us, to be part of a new change and let’s EVOLVE together with kindness & passion. Together things always end up better!
We are looking forward to seeing you online.
Presenters
Learn from the most different and experienced Master Teachers, embracing their differences! Meet your Teachers Live Online to benefit from all their precious and valuable Pilates insights.
Classes
Choose from over 15 Workouts and Masterclasses. Practice Pilates on the mat, using special props or working out on equipment, to not only do the work but FEEL the work to perfect your practice.
Workshops
Choose from over 12 Workshops covering different topics and approaches. Get your mat, pens & pencils ready to explore new ways to the Pilates Method, widening your understanding.
Get your CEC’s
By joining the Pilates Summit LIVE you will be able to receive CEC’s for your ongoing education provided by the NPCP. Check out our schedule to find out which sessions grant CEC points. The points are granted only for LIVE attendence to the sessions, no the replay.
All about Joe and Clara – April 25th
LA: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (PDT)
NY: 4:00 – 6:00 PM (EDT)
EU: 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM (CEST)
JP: 06:00 – 08:00 AM (JST)
Lolita San Miguel ›
John Howard Steel ›
Join Lolita San Miguel & John Howard Steel for this unique virtual Webinar, where the two of them will talk and exchange their experience alongside Joseph & Clara Pilates. Lolita was a student and apprentice of Joe & Clara while John experienced Joe & Clara’s teaching as a client but also as a close friend of theirs. Not only will you be able to look forward the opportunity to hear about how it was at the time but also benefit from the opportunity to ask all the questions you may have that Lolita and John are looking forward to answer. An interactive experience for all to dive a little deeper into the life of Joseph & Clara Pilates and the Legacy they left behind to serve to world for greater health.
The webinar live access is FREE.
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NOTE: PS2021 participants will have access to 30 days replay and they do not need to register separetaly.
Login credentials will be sent to you via e-mail 24 hours before the webinar.
ROUNDTABLE
June 4th
LA: 1:00 – 3:00 PM (PDT)
NY: 4:00 – 6:00 PM (EDT)
EU: 10:00 PM – 12:00 AM (CEST)
JP: 06:00 – 08:00 AM (JST)
Lolita San Miguel ›
Brett Howard ›
Kathryn Ross-Nash ›
Mary Bowen ›
Kathy Corey ›
Michael Fritzke
& Ton Voogt ›
Blossom Leilani Crawford ›
Elizabeth Larkam ›
Wendy Leblanc-Arbuckle ›
Brent Anderson ›
Jean-Claude Nelson ›
Zoey Trap ›
SESSION 1: WORKOUT (1h)
June 5th
LA: 6:00 – 7:00 AM (PDT)
NY: 9:00 – 10:00 AM (EDT)
EU: 3:00 PM – 4:PM AM (CEST)
JP: 10:00 – 11:00 PM (JST)
Blossom Leilani Crawford ›
Focused Matwork with Blossom
A lot is required of the body to move through the complete Pilates mat repertoire. Let’s see and feel how we can use our arm strength to access of the repertoire and our own bodies. Strength in the arms — the whole arm — is a necessary building block to set us up for success in the mat exercises. Strength from the arms helps us integrate and connect back into our body to create shapes and movement that reflects the wholeness of the body as a system. We will work through accessible variations of arm movements to build up to the more challenging Pilates mat exercises like Twist and High Bridge. Let’s explore work in the arms using small props like: hand weights and a towel.
K… B… ›
Let us surprise you!
More information soon!
Kathryn Ross-Nash ›
Session soon to be announced
More information soon!
SESSION 2: WORKSHOP & MEET YOUR TEACHER (2,5h)
June 5th
LA: 7:15 – 9:45 AM (PDT)
NY: 10:15 AM – 12:45 PM (EDT)
EU: 4:15 – 6:45 PM (CEST)
JP: 11:15 PM – 1:45 AM (JST)
Kyria Sabin
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The Fletcher approach to the Pilates method is both classical and evolved. Ron Fletcher began his studies with Joseph Pilates in 1948, following a knee injury, and continued his studies with Clara until he opened the first studio for Body Contology on west coast in 1971. Kyria Sabin initiated her 20-year study with Ron in 1991.
This workshop will introduce you to the unique Fletcher history and approach to the method, including an introduction to the Fletcher Percussive Breath, Fletcher Towelwork, Floorwork and Barrework techniques. You will learn how the Fletcher approach not only helps clarify the Pilates principles and roots, but also enables teachers to add creativity and variety to private sessions and group classes - both in studio and online - anywhere!
Wendy Leblanc-Arbuckle ›
Change the Context to Change Everything
Are you allowing your spine to “breathe” as you move, or treating your spine as something to “control”?
When we control ourselves, we run the risk of getting stuck in a perfectionistic, biomechanical, body image approach to movement and teaching. In this workshop, we will explore how to listen to the guidance of your innate biointelligent wisdom through the fascial matrix of your living architecture, the felt sense of your Biotensegrity Body, by learning to embody the embryonic tensional forces and gestures that shape us in the womb and support our movements throughout life.
• Experience and learn to embody your fascial elastic recoil breath as an access to whole body core coordination, internal organ toning and nervous system self-regulation
• Discover an effort with ease playful approach to the Pilates repertoire, creating a deeper access to the Basic movements and how they naturally flow into the Intermediate and Advanced movements
• Experience the power of the force transfer of your connective tissue fascial matrix as your legs and arms connect through your shoulder and pelvic girdles to your “breathing spine”
SESSION 3: WORKSHOP & MEET YOUR TEACHER (2,5h)
June 5th
LA: 10:15 AM – 12:45 PM (PDT)
NY: 1:15 – 3:45 PM (EDT)
EU: 7:15 – 9:45 PM (CEST)
JP: 2:15 – 4:45 AM (JST)
Mary Bowen ›
A life of dual development, Pilates and Yourself! They grow together.
Our “authority” comes from our depth of focus and work on where we have the most trouble with ourselves, our greatest area of undevelopment, frustration and even despair. Dealing our whole lives with that area is a creative and spiritual journey, totally worth the work. Each Pilates teacher and each Pilates client has the potential to be involved in this process. It is a natural process.
Our area of personal difficulty lies in the unconscious which is the larger part of each one of our psyches. The great Swiss physician/psychologist/ psychiatrist: Carl Gustav Jung’s work unlocked and made available the growing of our “Whole Selves.” Among his many discoveries of the human psyche, he uncovered and clarified the typological structure of the psyche, the “four ways” in which we learn and experience life: 1) Thinking, 2) Feeling, 3) Sensation (the body) and 4) Intuition.
It is how this typology is useful in the teaching and learning Pilates that I am sharing with you at this second Summit..
Brent Anderson ›
equals Distribution of Force
Pilates, according to Anderson is one of the most effective movement environments to increase the quality and distribution of movement. Today, sedentarism is killing the world and often referred to as the “New Smoking”. Discover specific tools inside of the Pilates repertoire that can negate the effects of sitting. This workshop will also teach how to identify quality of movement and where new movement can be achieved, while distributing potentially harmful forces in the spine and extremities that can lead to degeneration, injuries, and pain.
Objectives: Following this virtual workshop, participants will
Understand the power associated with segmental movement with heightened attention to quality.
Learn how to identify segmental movement of the spine and the importance of discovering mobility in the upper lumbar, thoracic, hip extension and ankle dorsi-flexion.
Learn how increased mobility in other parts of the body can greatly reduce forces in areas that are subject to degeneration and injury like the lumbar, knees, cervical and shoulders.
Learn how to apply this knowledge to an ever-increasing sedentary population and how to impact the client’s lifestyle with home programs to influence heightened mobility in daily movement strategies.
SESSION 4: MASTERCLASS (1,5h)
June 5th
LA: 2:30 – 4:00 PM (PDT)
NY: 5:30 – 7:00 PM (EDT)
EU: 11:30 PM – 1:00 AM (CEST)
JP: 6:30 – 8:00 AM (JST)
S… S…›
Let us surprise you!
More information soon!
J… H…›
Let us surprise you!
More information soon!
M… K…›
Let us surprise you!
More information soon!
SESSION 1: WORKOUT (1h)
June 6th
LA: 6:00 – 7:00 AM (PDT)
NY: 9:00 – 10:00 AM (EDT)
EU: 3:00 PM – 4:PM AM (CEST)
JP: 10:00 – 11:00 PM (JST)
Miguel Silva ›
Together, we will workout and feel how the chair can help us to build a strong and flexible body!
From your feet to your head, a full list of exercises.
"It corrects - bow leg, knocked knees - flat feet - curvature of the spine - dropping shoulders and flat chest.
"Its - The only 100% confort chair. Its the only chair of its kind” - JP
Jean-Claude Nelson ›
In this class we will be focusing on the classical Mat exercises in relationship to the shape and support of the Spine Corrector. Finding new ways to challenge our stability, open our articulations and exploring a playful approach to the Pilates Mat repertoire.
SESSION 2: WORKSHOP & MEET YOUR TEACHER (2,5h)
June 6th
LA: 7:15 – 9:45 AM (PDT)
NY: 10:15 AM – 12:45 PM (EDT)
EU: 4:15 – 6:45 PM (CEST)
JP: 11:15 PM – 1:45 AM (JST)
Lolita San Miguel ›
Join and follow Lolita on her 2h Reformer workout, combining her Standing work with the Reformer work. Let her take you on a full body journey on one of her favourite pieces of apparatus to reform your body from head to toes, sharing her insights from her almost 60 years of experience with the Method.
Lolita will be working out with you, demonstrating all the work during as she will be teaching you, taking you through a standing warm up sequence using hand weights to then invite you to join her on the Reformer, combining her movements to the exercises she originally learned from Joseph & Clara Pilates while she was an apprentice at their studio in NY in 1967. A unique opportunity to experience an Elder Master Teacher at work…sharing the work… teaching work… and doing the work, as the only way to know the method is to embody it no matter what age you are or what body you are currently living in. Pilates WORKS for longevity and Lolita is one living proof of that!
Elizabeth Larkam ›
Session soon to be announced
More information soon!
Michael Fritzke
& Ton Voogt ›
In your Pilates practice, as in life, you use your arms and shoulders in a variety of ways. You reach, pull, push, hang and support, to name a few. Whatever movement pattern you do the balance between stability and mobility is crucial in order to perform these of movements safely. In this workshop Michael and Ton will focus on the way we use our shoulders and arms as our base of support during our Pilates exercises, for example during the Leg pull, Pull up or Elephant. We will quickly review the basic anatomy of the shoulders and arms using the concepts of Spiraldynamik® and then delve into exercises which will help you create proper support throughout your Pilates practice. Experience how you can improve your Pilates exercises through correct alignment of the scapula, humerus, ulna, radius and the dome of your hand.
Specific things you will learn:
New exercises that you will be able to incorporate immediately into your practice
Basic understanding of the spirals of the arms and shoulders
How we can use the spirals of the arms and scapula to make your Pilates exercises more effective
SESSION 3: WORKSHOP & MEET YOUR TEACHER (2,5h)
June 6th
LA: 10:15 AM – 12:45 PM (PDT)
NY: 1:15 – 3:45 PM (EDT)
EU: 7:15 – 9:45 PM (CEST)
JP: 2:15 – 4:45 AM (JST)
Kathy Corey ›
on the Cadillac, Reformer and Mat
Muscle imbalances need to be addressed asymmetrically in order to create balance and symmetry. Everything from the way we stand, lift and carry affects this asymmetry. This course teaches assessment of hyper-mobility and rigidity and how to correct muscle imbalances. Exercises will be presented to balance the body with a variety of patterns and sequences integrating movement for the whole body. This concept teaches us how to adapt the work for the individual in order to teach every level of fitness.
Zoey Trap ›
Did you know that arthritis is a leading cause of disability throughout the world? In the USA alone, more than 50 million adults and 300,000 children in America have some type of arthritis. Arthritis is common, but not well understood as the term is an informal way of referring to joint pain or joint disease. With over 100 different types of arthritis related conditions, where does an instructor begin?
Multiple studies show that moderate exercise is beneficial for people with arthritis. Learn an approach to help your clients workout, reduce pain, and increase function. This course will cover:
Theory:
- What is arthritis, what are the main types of arthritis?
- What are the do’s and don’ts for working with people who have arthritis
- How to match client goals with an intelligent approach that factors in their arthritis.
Practice:
- Explore how to work with the 4 S’s to help clients increase quality of life and manage pain.
- Discover how to mobilize the joints to reduce pain and set clients up for better movement sessions.
- Learn what to put into the Pilates lesson to add benefit, what to leave out, and what to adapt.
You will receive:
- Workout guidelines and sample workouts
- Client handouts: What you should know about exercise and arthritis/ Daily homework handout
Madeline Black ›
Teaching Pilates with new perceptions - Live event
Perception, reality, communication, action. The actions we take are based on what we experience and perceive. For movement teachers, we are wired to think via movement, via connection and via our ability to think, feel and sense with a fine-tuned awareness. However, for many of our clients, that awareness is less obvious.
In this workshop, Madeline Black will teach you how to create physical change even when you are not physically present with someone.
Experience how to see a client’s movement strategy in 2D, interpret it and guide the client toward a felt sense of the movement to make the shift you offer. Become aware of the novel sensory perceptions in your practice and trust your own perceptions.
Learn about sensory perception in teaching Pilates and how yours has evolved
Practice new skills to assess movement in 2D environment
Discover how to translate what you see through the screen to the client for effective movement shifts toward improved performance
Tuning into your own perceptions
Connecting with the client that meets them at a place where it is most effective for them to sense their body
Experience a live movement class led by Madeline
Real time for answering questions and sharing ideas
Madeline will be live for both presenting and Q & A.
SESSION 4: MASTERCLASS (1,5h)
June 6th
LA: 1:30 – 3:00 PM (PDT)
NY: 4:30 – 6:00 PM (EDT)
EU: 10:30 PM – 12:00 PM (CEST)
JP: 5:30 – 7:00 AM (JST)
Brett Howard ›
Joseph Pilates referred to his method as the Art of Control. “Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit” Joseph Pilates (1945). In this workshop, tools are given to foster ways of attaining greater consistent control in Pilates. Participants learn various approaches of scaffolding and deconstructing the Pilates exercises, as well as learn how to recognize the skills involved in the exercises to strengthen those skills.
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Madeline’s life pursuit is the discovery of how the human body moves. Over 30 years in the field of movement, her curiosity explored all aspects of movement in dance, Pilates, yoga, Gyrotonic®, fitness training and from studies of human biomechanics, human cadaver dissection labs, osteopathic and manual therapies. Madeline is the author of “Centered: Organizing the body through movement theory, kinesiology and Pilates techniques” published by Handspring Publishing. Madeline developed the Madeline Black Method™, a method teaching movement teachers to use assessment skills, movement sequences and manual techniques to help people achieve their fullest movement potential. Her extensive study and widely respected accomplishments in the field of movement and fitness have fueled her rise as an international leader in movement and exercise education. What sets Madeline apart is her intuitive integrity, articulate awareness of the physical body and decades of expertise.
Madeline Black offers her program, “Madeline Black Method™ Online Immersive Training” for all movement teachers. The training is in three series each 5 weeks in length. Find out more about her teachings at www.madelineblack.com. Madeline has filmed many workshops and movement classes for Pilates Anytime and Fusion Pilates EDU Online. She has a private practice in Sonoma, CA USA.
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Madeline Black, perennial, body synthesizer, author, teacher of teachers, decades of experience, advances movement potential, holds healing space, movement integration
John Howard Steel practiced law for sixty years and Pilates for nearly as long. As one of the few people still alive who studied with and knew Joseph Pilates both in and out of his studio, John is in a unique position to tell this story. Steel was crucial to the survival of
Pilates and tells this personal story with wit and enthusiasm. He regularly appears as a guest on webinars and blogs and has been
interviewed in numerous publications. He lives in Santa Barbara with his wife, Bunny. Caged Lion is his first book, will acquaint you with Joseph & Clara Pilates, and tells the story of a complex and creative man and the remarkable and perilous history of a phenomenon: Pilates. Caged Lion is a book you will love: don't miss it.
Kyria is the Director of Fletcher Pilates, International, a school dedicated to the Fletcher lineage of the Pilates method. A graduate of Duke University and a licensed massage therapist, Kyria initiated her studies with Ron Fletcher in 1991 and founded Body Works Pilates Studio in Tucson, Arizona in 1993. Recognized by Ron Fletcher as a Master Teacher and Disseminator, Kyria developed the Pilates Program at the University of Arizona School of Dance, where she serves as Adjunct Faculty. Kyria is an international presenter and has served on the national boards for the Pilates Method Alliance, the UA School of Dance and the Foundation for Expanding Horizons. Kyria currently chairs the National Pilates Certification Program.
Brett Howard is the Director of Education of the United States Pilates Association™ and a Senior Teacher of Teacher of the Teacher Certification Program. He is the Director of Education of the Classic Pilates Institute in South Korea. He is an Owner and Director of the Pilates Studio the Pilates Haus.
Brett Howard was certified by the New York Pilates Studio® Teacher Certification Program under the tutelage of Romana Kryzanowska in 1998. He has trained extensively with Pilates Elders Mary Bowen, Jay Grimes and Lolita San Miguel, as well as Master Teachers Bob Liekens, Sari Mejia Santo, Kathy Corey, Carey Regan, Blossom Crawford, Deborah Lessen and Steve Giordano. He is a PMA Certified Pilates Teacher. He is a co- author of the book Pilates for Children and Adolescents and a contributing essay author of the book Voices of Classical Pilates. He is featured in the Pilates book, The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning and has appeared and contributed articles in Pilates Style Magazine. He is a "Distinguished Instructor" and “Legacy Curator” on Pilates Anytime and is an Instructor on Pilatesology, both are global online Pilates Studios, created for people all over the world to explore Pilates with highly skilled, well-trained instructors.
Brett Howard has taught workshops all around the United States as well as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland. He has created a Pilates curriculum for children that can be implemented in schools as well as the private sector.
Brett Howard holds a M.A. in Dance Education from New York University Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development and a B.F.A. in Dance from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. He has done a large amount of coursework in Anatomy and Biomechanics, training under Irene Dowd and Lynn Martin.
Brett Howard has danced for the Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company, Mary Seidman and Dancers, Stephan Koplowitz, Tarin Chaplin, Hemiko Minota, Renata Celichowska, Susan Koff and the Faun Dance Troupe. He is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of the Dance Company Brett Howard and Company, which he founded in 2001.Brett Howard is the Director of Education of the United States Pilates Association™ and a Senior Teacher of Teacher of the Teacher Certification Program. He is the Director of Education of the Classic Pilates Institute in South Korea. He is an Owner and Director of the Pilates Studio the Pilates Haus.
Brett Howard was certified by the New York Pilates Studio® Teacher Certification Program under the tutelage of Romana Kryzanowska in 1998. He has trained extensively with Pilates Elders Mary Bowen, Jay Grimes and Lolita San Miguel, as well as Master Teachers Bob Liekens, Sari Mejia Santo, Kathy Corey, Carey Regan, Blossom Crawford, Deborah Lessen and Steve Giordano. He is a PMA Certified Pilates Teacher. He is a co- author of the book Pilates for Children and Adolescents and a contributing essay author of the book Voices of Classical Pilates. He is featured in the Pilates book, The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning and has appeared and contributed articles in Pilates Style Magazine. He is a "Distinguished Instructor" and “Legacy Curator” on Pilates Anytime and is an Instructor on Pilatesology, both are global online Pilates Studios, created for people all over the world to explore Pilates with highly skilled, well-trained instructors.
Brett Howard has taught workshops all around the United States as well as Argentina, Australia, Austria, Brazil, China, England, Finland, Germany, Holland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, South Korea, Spain and Switzerland. He has created a Pilates curriculum for children that can be implemented in schools as well as the private sector.
Brett Howard holds a M.A. in Dance Education from New York University Steinhardt School of Education, Culture and Human Development and a B.F.A. in Dance from S.U.N.Y. Purchase College Conservatory of Dance. He has done a large amount of coursework in Anatomy and Biomechanics, training under Irene Dowd and Lynn Martin.
Brett Howard has danced for the Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company, Mary Seidman and Dancers, Stephan Koplowitz, Tarin Chaplin, Hemiko Minota, Renata Celichowska, Susan Koff and the Faun Dance Troupe. He is the Artistic Director and Choreographer of the Dance Company Brett Howard and Company, which he founded in 2001.
Kathy Corey is a Master Teacher who began her career with the Pilates Technique in 1979. She has been the leading expert in the Pilates community for over 40 years. She is the Director of Kathy Corey Pilates. Kathy Corey Pilates Programs are taught at locations across the United States and in over 30 countries worldwide. In 2004, she designed the innovative CORE Band™, which is used in studios around the world. The Core Band™ Mat Class is recognized as an enhancement to the traditional mat exercises.
Kathy Corey Pilates offers a progressive and in-depth educational experience through many levels of training. The Comprehensive Certification Program provides a full education of the Pilates repertoire. The KCP Mentor Program is a highly selective program designed for teachers who are already certified and have been teaching for at least five years. Her C.A.R.E.S. – Cancer Awareness and Recovery Exercise System – is a state of the art Pilates program for a variety of treatments and conditions to help people in their breast cancer recovery – in mind, body, and spirit.
She is on the Contributing Editor Board for IDEA Pilates Today and is an IDEA Expert. She has been selected by IDEA as one of ten people in the world “Who Inspire the World to Fitness,” the fitness industry’s highest form of recognition.
Kathy Corey is an Advisory Board Member for Pilates Style Magazine. She is a “Distinguished Instructor” for PilatesAnytime, a global Pilates Studio, created for people all over the world to explore Pilates with highly skilled, well-trained instructors.
Corey is a PMA Pilates Gold Certified Teacher and a PMA CEC provider. She is a member of the PMA Presenters Committee for the 2016 Conference.
In 2013, Corey received the first Plaque of Appreciation from Pilates in Asia for her outstanding performance and contribution to the growth of Pilates. In 2014, she was appointed as the President of the International Education Committee for Pilates in Asia.
Kathy Corey has accepted the position of President of the World Pilates Confederation. The WPC is a European based Pilates organization for the inclusion and support of the Pilates Method of all countries, all schools and all generations of pilates. The purpose of the organization is to promote quality education and promote global unity.
Master Teacher Kathy Corey received the honor of becoming the President and Director of the International Pilates Heritage Congress held in Joseph Pilates hometown, Monchengladbach, Germany, which is known as the most prestigious International Pilates Congress in the world.
Wendy is an International leader in embodied movement, with a 40 year background in holistic health, and lifelong studies and collaborations with distinguished pioneers in yoga, Pilates, Structural Integration bodywork, somatic arts and sciences, dynamic breathwork and energy medicine.
As Director of Pilates Center of Austin for the past 28 years, Wendy studied originally with Romana Kryzanowska and then with Kathy Grant, Ron Fletcher, Mary Bowen and Lolita San Miguel…Pilates Elders who studied directly with Joseph Pilates. She has been deeply inspired by the diversity of their teaching expressions. Additionally, her extensive yoga background, along with studies with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Emilie Conrad, Susan Harper, Judith Aston, Tom Myers, The Guild for Structural Integration, Hubert Godard, Carl Stough, Phillip Beach and Jaap van der Wal, with profound breath, fascial biotensegrity, embryology and ontological studies, empowered Wendy to cultivate her own “biointelligent” voice.
A sought-after “teacher of teachers”, her embodied 3Core Connections® Embodied Perspective of Lower, Central and Upper Cores honors the body’s lived experience of “Core as Relationship, with Gravity, Ourselves, One Another and Our Environment. Her vision has revolved around illuminating and evoking the integrative core principles that underlie our human movement gestural patterning, enabling students and practitioners of any discipline to discover their wholeness by cultivating their own voice, through the portal and brilliant guidance of their biointelligent wisdom. When we live deeply and fully in our bodies, we are able to connect to authentic human movement, as well as the dynamic stillness of the center, discovering how that shapes our behavior, emotional resilience, empathy for one another and the natural world that supports and sustains us.
A founding member of the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA), the Fascia Research Society and International Association of Structural Integrators, (IASI) she was on the original role delineatio
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Michael originally hails from Minneapolis, MN, USA, while Ton was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. They are one of those rare couples that are together 24/7. They met in the late 80’s living in Vienna, Austria while performing in a production of Cats. They were in the same dressing room and friendly, but neither of them were interested in anything more than being friends/colleagues at that time. It wasn’t until 1991 while living in Zürich, Switzerland performing in yet another production of Cats that their friendship turned into a relationship.
Life moved on, as it inevitably does for all of us, and they found themselves in New York desiring a break from life in the theatre. Familiar with the Pilates method, having been introduced to it as performers in the 1980s, they found themselves at Drago’s Gym at 50 West 57 Street in NYC. It was here that they met Romana Kryzanowska for the first time. They immediately embarked on an apprenticeship with Romana with the aim of becoming teachers. No manuals, no workshops, no hour counts. No, Romana took them under her wing and taught them organically from her own great knowledge and intuition, the way Joe had taught her. She made it very clear from the start that she would declare them as ready to teach when she decided that they truly were. After a year of daily sessions, assisting and teaching along side Romana; and ending everyday with “question and answer” time, she told them they were ready to test out. M & T both speak of this time with great affection, punctuating the significance that time had in their lives.
After becoming certified M & T started to teach at the Pilates Studio in NYC at 2121 Broadway in NYC. The studio was owned by Sean Gallagher who was the Director of Pilates, Inc. for which Romana was the Master Instructor. At this time apprentices divided their hours between Drago’s Gym and the Pilates Studio of NYC. The Pilates Studio was also connected to Performing Arts Physical Therapy and it was during this time that M & T first started to work with Physical Therapists to incorporate Pilates into a patients physical therapy. Their clientele at the studio included many celebrities (Julianna Margulies, Donald Sutherland, Roberta Flack, Phylicia Rashad to name a few). They even created a special warm-up for the Broadway cast of The Lion King which they taught every week at the theatre on 42nd street.
When Bob Liekens left his position as Teacher Trainer at the Pilates Studio to work for Power Pilates, Romana asked “the boys” as she always called them, to take over and become Teacher Trainers. Of course they were flattered and honored by her request so they started their second Pilates apprenticeship with Romana to become Teacher Trainers. It was during their test out to become Teacher Trainers that Romana first put them together to teach as a team. As Teacher Trainers and Supervising Instructors at the uptown Pilates Studio in NYC, M & T worked closely together with Romana and her daughter Sari Mejia Santo, training, guiding and testing hundreds of apprentices through the program.
In 2003 Romana split from Pilates, Inc. to start her own organization Romana’s Pilates. M & T decided they did not want to be a part of any organization and wanted to become independent. Although the decision was not an easy one for them, it was an organic one. They had arrived at a point in their Pilates careers that they felt belonging to and just teaching the curriculum of an organization was too restrictive. During their time with Romana they had continued to study with different teachers, Pilates Elders, healers and other forms of movement including Chinese Meridian Exercises, Yoga and more in-depth anatomy. M & T wanted to utilize all of their knowledge and experience. So they began to pursue their own path. They continued to teach their clients as freelance teachers in NYC, worked for various non-profit organizations like Share an organization for women with breast and ovarian cancer, and developed and created the TRIADBALLTM and TRIADBALL manual. It didn’t take long before they were asked to present workshops at studios and conventions worldwide. This led to eventually being asked to consult and help set up independently owned and run certification programs in Norway, Austria, Portugal, England, The Netherlands and Costa Rica.
Phoenix, AZ is now their home base and their clientele includes professional athletes from the NFL and MLB. Michael and Ton are currently in their advanced studies of Spiraldynamik® based out of Switzerland.
Kathryn Ross-Nash. Author, Model, Photographer & Lover of the Pilates Method.
Kathryn began her Classical Pilates training in 1982 and has had the privilege to study with First Generation teachers Romana Kryzanowska, Kathy Grant, Sari Mejia Santo, Jay Grimes and Edwina Fontaine. She is trained through the Pilates Studio, Romana’s Pilates, Authentic Pilates, the Pilates Method Alliance, a Guild Certified Feldenkras Practitioner, and through the National Pilates Certification Program. She was a principle dancer for ten years with Ballet Hispanico of NY, where she now sits on the Board of Directors. Kathryn holds a second-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do and an undefeated AUU sparring record.
Kathryn worked closely with Romana for many years. Romana named her founding Vice- President to her Presidency of the Authentic Pilates Guild. Kathryn often traveled and demonstrated the work for Romana during her workshops. She is the only woman to demonstrate on both the Romana’s Pilates Mat DVDs, she is the voice and teacher of the individual follow along Mat workouts and the Legacy Series DVDs. Romana is quoted about Ms. Ross-Nash, saying “her work is like ice cream”, “poetry in motion” and “she is one of her best”- Romana’s “Star of Stars.”
Kathryn appeared with Romana multiple in Pilates Style Magazine. She can be found on her own Vimeo site, Pilatesology and Pilates Anytime. She was featured instructor in the premiere issue of Pilates Style and has been featured in the magazine many times since, served a writer for it’s blog, magazine and currently sits on the Advisory Board. She is an often-quoted expert whose advice on the method and it’s authenticity is sought after worldwide. To celebrate her 55th Birthday she had the honor to grace the cover of Pilates Style Magazine as the oldest single cover model in their history. With this cover, which included a ten page spread featuring her work “The Red Thread®”. Along with her daughter, Zoe Ross-Nash, this cover kicked off the campaign #donttouchme, encouraging others to embrace their authentic self and shed the use of filters and photo shop alterations.
Alan Herdman studied at the London School of Contemporary Dance and was working as a teacher and dancer when, in the late 1960s, he was invited to New York to learn about the Joseph Pilates Method. There he worked intensively with Carola Trier and Bob Fitzgerald, two instructors who had been trained by Pilates himself.
Although well-regarded amongst New York’s dance fraternity, Pilates was unknown in the UK at that time and Alan returned in 1970 to set up Britain’s first-ever Pilates studio. Among his first clients were actors, dancers and singers, but word soon spread as doctors and physiotherapists began recommending Pilates to patients struggling with chronic injuries. Alan now lectures on Pilates around the world, and he has written several successful books, including The Pilates Directory (2004), The Gaia Busy Person’s Guide to Pilates (2003), Pilates for Men (2007) and The Complete Pilates Tutor (2014). He runs a training course for Pilates instructors in London and supervises courses in both Athens and Istanbul. As well as running his own studios, Alan and his assistants teach in dance schools and designated Pilates studios internationally, and he regularly presents at Balanced Body’s international Pilates On Tour.
Brooke Siler began her Pilates training in 1994 under Joseph Pilates’ protégée Romana Kryzanowska at Drago’s Gym in New York City.
She opened her award-winning Manhattan studio, re:AB Pilates, in 1997 and was quickly embraced by Hollywood’s A-list from Madonna to Dustin Hoffman.
Brooke is best known for penning the New York Times’ best-seller The Pilates Body, the highest grossing Pilates book of all time. She has followed it with titles: Your Ultimate Pilates Body Challenge, The Pilates Body Kit, The Women’s Health Big Book of Pilates and the Pilates Weight Loss for Beginners dvd.
Brooke has studied anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, fascial networks and cadaver dissection with teachers such as Tom Myers (Anatomy Trains), chiropractic physician Dr. Joe Muscolino (Know The Body), Leslie Kaminoff & Amy Matthews (Yoga Anatomy) and podiatrist Dr. Emily Splichal, under whom she is a certified Barefoot Training SpecialistTM.
After moving to the UK in 2015 for her family, Brooke still teaches classes and workshops. She has remained at the forefront of the Pilates community because her work remains fiercely passionate, purposeful, authentic and fun.
Debora Robinson Kolwey began her movement studies in high school, with yoga, ballet, modern dance and theatre arts. She received her BFA in dance from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and upon graduation pursued a career in modern dance, in NYC.
In 1982 Debora moved to Boulder Colorado to dance with The Nancy Spanier Dance Co. While teaching fitness at a local gym, she apprenticed with Stephan Frease to become trained in Pilates, and in 1985 opened a small studio in her home. She spent the next few years teaching privately and traveling to study with first generation teachers. Pivotal to her development was an apprenticeship with Eve Gentry. After Eve’s death, Michele Larsson and Debora created the first Core Dynamics workshops to carry on Eve’s legacy.
In 1991 Debora joined the teaching staff at The Pilates Center in Boulder, and in 1999 became a Licensed Teacher Trainer for The Pilates Center. Debora is devoted to teaching. She is inspired by this opportunity to explore, with all types of people, that which supports us in becoming more fully human and finding deeper satisfaction in this life. She is influenced from many sources, including a wide variety of movement and alternative healing systems, spiritual philosophies, and her long-time practice of contemplative meditation.
Debora is certified by Eve Gentry, the original Pilates Institute, The Pilates Center (1992), The PMA, and has most recently completed Eric Franklin’s Level I Educator training.
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I was first introduce to Pilates Alliance by Michael and Ton, and I am grateful to them for having done so. The objective of the 40-45 minute lecture will be to inspire and improve your own pilates practice by providing you with a comprehensive and practical understanding of your body, as well as its functional autonomy. The lecture will cover four main topics:
Clare Dunphy Hemani BS, NCPT
My roots in the field of human movement began at Northeastern University in 1980 where I studied Exercise Science, continuing my education with certifications from PMA, ACE, and Romana Kryzanowska (formerly The Pilates Guild). I began my Pilates studies under Romana Kryzanowska in 1995 and continue my studies with master teachers to this day. I present on Pilatesology.com and PilatesAnytime.com, and host free video channels on Vimeo.com and YouTube. From 2001-2013 as co-author of the Peak Pilates Comprehensive Education Program, I mentored scores of teachers and teacher trainers, which opened my eyes to the value and need to coach the next generation of teachers. I'm committed to preserving the authenticity and tradition of The Pilates Method of Body Conditioning, and to creating learning environments that are refreshing, energetic and supportive. I'm the founder of Pilates Avatar®, a comprehensive audio program designed for practitioners of all levels to help them gain greater ownership of their practice. My gift is my willingness to share knowledge generously and explain concepts with clarity. My mission is simple: Get more people doing Pilates! Follow Clare at www.progressivebodyworksinc.com and on Facebook and Instagram.
Clare Dunphy Hemani BS, NCPT
We think of the Spine Corrector as the apparatus of choice for individual needs exercises to open up the chest, shoulders, and hips. Yet there is so much more we can do on this home friendly, space efficient apparatus! We will discover many other possibilities for Spine Corrector usage that are practical and work really well in virtual sessions and in-person private and semi- private setting. Get ready to add more tools and ideas into your repertoire!
Package LIVE ONLY is our most affordable package. You will have access to all live sessions happening over the Pilates Summit’s weekend.
Benefit from all the sessions, choosing any session you wish to attend that is happening live following our schedule.
Make new contacts and connect with other Pilates Enthusiasts like you in our virtual chat rooms to network all around the world.
Package LIVE & REPLAY is the ideal option if you want to make sure that you won’t miss out on any session during the weekend, no matter what time zone you are living in.
Make new contacts and connect with other Pilates Enthusiasts like you in our virtual chat rooms to network all around the world.
By choosing this package, you will have access to all live sessions happening over the Pilates Summit’s weekend and all their REPLAY options for a limited time of 72h, with all the networking options included. That way you will be able to watch as many sessions as you wish at the comfort of your own time and creating your own Pilates Summit agenda.
Package UNLIMITED is the most attractive option for ALL PILATES ENTHUSIASTS that want to have the luxury of time to ensure that they have benefited the most from all sessions and all Master Teachers. It is the package that offers you the best possible online ongoing education experience without a doubt.
By choosing this package, you will have access to all live sessions happening over the Pilates Summit’s weekend and all their unlimited REPLAY options for an additional 90 days once the conference is over, with all the networking options also included. Such a practice and learning opportunity online has never been seen before and it would be a shame to miss out on this unique unlimited learning possibility over Summer.
Ken Endelman founded Balanced Body in 1976 (at a time when there were maybe only 10 Pilates studios worldwide) after a Pilates instructor visited his custom furniture store in Hollywood and asked him to build an improved Reformer. He designed and built a modern Reformer that was reliable, safer and more user-friendly – resulting in a new career and a revolution in the mind-body exercise community. Under Endelman’s leadership, Balanced Body has since become the world’s largest resource for Pilates equipment and education.
Over the years, Endelman has collaborated with Pilates educators, studio owners, fitness facility managers, physical therapists, athletic trainers and home users from around the world to create equipment that combines Joseph Pilates’ original designs with a current understanding of human biomechanics. His innovations have been awarded over 30 patents in the United States and hundreds more worldwide.
Endelman’s goal is to make Pilates a part of everyone’s life. To that end, Balanced Body now promotes the benefits of Pilates at up to 30 conferences a year. He has authored articles on a wide variety of topics relating to both technical and business aspects of Pilates equipment and programs and is a frequent presenter at Pilates and fitness conferences around the world.
Endelman is also a member of the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science and of the Pilates Method Alliance, and he has completed in-depth educational seminars with a number of Pilates senior master trainers. He is a graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also passionate about building a sustainable company for future generations—and even cycles to work whenever possible!
In this workshop students will view a selection of Pilates exercise and examine the movement skills involved in the exercises, recognize like skills in other exercise, develop strategies to build on top of the skills and identify various progressions of the exercise.
This Mat class is consisted of a short warm up section, intermediate level Pilates Mat exercises (with some challenging variations) and a cool down stretching section, focusing on teaching your students without touching them by keeping social distance. Students can learn proper engagement of muscles by use of props, tactile feed back by using their own body, as well as visual and image cues.
A complete experience of the mat repertoire acquainting you with the history of Joseph Pilates, the importance of her breathing technic, her integration of the pelvic floor and the core, taking you through all spinal movements efficiently.
Everything in Lolita’s Pilates approach is structured and interlinked to create ideal movement flow and full body integration. Nothing in her work is random but all well thought through to always start a class addressing the whole body properly, to build up and layer the work to end a class standing, affirming a Perfect Pilates Posture.
This class is open for all to share and experience our unity through the power of the matwork witnessing an Elder Master Teacher at work!
Join Lolita taking you through a workout of her own, in her home gym in Florida. Lolita is a true force of nature and you better keep up with her during this unique class using equipment. Follow her on a journey through a full body workout linking movements on the Reformer, the Cadillac and the Ped-o-Pull.
Joe asked of each one of us to be in our WHOLE BODY
in every move.
We will always be working on that.
I have added addressing our WHOLE PERSON,
the parts that are conscious and the parts that are unconscious
to our learning, teaching and living of Pilates.
In this adventure we have only just begun!
Mary will explain the practical tool of Jungian Typology in the teaching and learning of Pilates and/or everything else!!
Mary has 45 years of teaching Pilates under her since 1975 and ongoing, and also 50 years of practicing as a Jungian Psychoanalyst since 1970 and ongoing. She kept the two professions separate for 20 years until one day witnessing a Pilates client in dire distress she intervened to explain to the client a way to understand what she was feeling, to help her to see what was natural in her reaction at the time. Being overheard by others nearby in the studio, from that time on everyone wanted both sides of Mary. PILATES PLUS PSYCHE was born that day in 1995 and introduced to the PMA in 2000. PILATES PLUS PSYCHE is now a 25 year old established part of the Pilates worldwide community. It addresses the whole person in the learning and teaching of Pilates, both the conscious and the unconscious mainly using the practical tool of Jungian Typology to understand why for the teacher and for the client certain things are simple and easy and others impossibly difficult. The answer to that lies in one’s typology.
During the workshop questions can be asked and nothing that Mary teaches is ever set in stone. Her unique approcha has her teach creatively, each time differently from her spirit and the spontaneity of the occasion. So don't miss this unique opportunity to meet Mary, learning from her 60 years of Pilates Experience.
56 years of private lessons: 1959-2015 – all in NYC
6 and 1/2 years twice a week with Joe and Clara themselves
7 years with Bob Seed
7 years with Romana Kryzanowska
7 years with Kathy Grant
7 years with Bruce King
20 years with Christine Wright who moved to Toronto in 2015
At 85, the first time without a teacher to “go to,” Mary’s “ very best” teacher came forward:
her OWN BODY. Now 90, the most Senior Pilates Elder still teaching, Mary reports she is
still coming into her body.
Mary Bowen, at 90, is our most Senior Pilates Elder still teaching
Benefit from a unique and more intimate ongoing education opportunity, by taking part to our different pre-conference sessions. Sign up for one or several pre-conferences that may interest you, independently of the Pilates Summit Weekend.
Once registered to the pre-conference/s of your choice, you will be able to attend the session/s Live and also benefit from a 7days Replay option. Benefit from this review option included in the price, to review anything you may have missed live or that may wish to go over once more, for an ideal learning experience in your own time when it suits you best.
In this workshop you will be introduced to some of the Spiraldynamik® principles and how they can be applied to the traditional Pilates exercises without taking anything away from the Pilates method. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience a new dimension of Pilates.
Props needed:
2 spiky balls (Eric Franklin Easy Grip balls or similar) or 2 Tennis balls
1 Triadball (or similar)
1 Theraband (long if possible)
Join Me for a relaxed but challenging Pilates mat class. Be supported and uplifted by knowing your friends and colleagues from all over the world are coming together with you. In this time of isolation, we are not alone. We can move and breathe together and play within the method to experience how your own body can partner you. No props necessary but bring what you need.
This hour-long presentation traces Joseph Pilates journey from Monchengladbach to New York City. You will get a glimpse into his early years and development, his internment on the Isle of Mann, and his arrival in New York. We’ll also examine the evolution of Joe’s designs while taking a deep dive into his entrepreneurial disposition. Time permitting, we can view actual video footage of the Pilates elders.
Kevin Bowen will show you the original Pilates equipment pieces that belonged to Eve Gentry. We will review the key differences of her equipment , which pieces were most utilized during her recovery from a radical mastectomy and how Eve accommodated her diverse clientele utilizing pillows, pads and her signature Gentry technique exercises.
The workshop will focus on the- The Hundred: Mat & Reformer.
No one leaves Baby in the Corner! Learn the “Lift” of Pilates and how amazing this little Baby can be! For years Baby sat in the corner- “It’s for old ladies and delicate dancers” we were told. For years Baby sat....off to the side and out of the light. This workshop will change your mind about the Arm/Baby Chair! It contains exercises that challenge the strongest of strong. The Arm/Baby Chair teaches us the missing component in the Pilates of today. It teaches us how to lift and engage our Powerhouse in the correct manner. You will learn to move with length in two directions from a strong center. The Arm/Baby Chair connects the front body to the back body and then both more deeply into the Powerhouse. Unique to this workshop, you will not only learn the how of each exercise, but the why, when and what. Why would I choose the Baby Chair instead of the Cadillac? When would I add a spot, bar or Magic Circle, What is the purpose of this exercise and how does it connect to the work of Pilates? Once again, The Red Thread® is woven and the connection is understood between the Mat and Reformer to increase a greater understanding of Pilates as a Method.
Elizabeth Larkam, National Certified Pilates Teacher, is a pioneer of the Pilates Method Alliance® initiative Heroes in Motion®. She was awarded the Medal of the Danish Society of Military Medicine in recognition of her efforts to improve the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. As a Dance medicine Pilates Specialist at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, 1985-2000, Elizabeth created Pilates programs for orthopedic, spine and chronic pain diagnoses. As Director of Pilates & Beyond for Western Athletic Clubs, she developed the internationally acclaimed Mind & Body Center. Elizabeth authored the book Fascia in Motion: Fascia-focused movement for Pilates (Handspring, September 2017) and the Pilates chapter for the book Fascia in Sport and Movement (Handspring, 2015, second edition 2020). She is co-editor of the book in preparation, Pilates Applications for Health Conditions: Case Reports and Perspectives (Handspring, 2021). Elizabeth is a Feldenkrais® practitioner and a Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis® instructor. She has 48 programs on Pilates Anytime and eight on fusionpilatesedu.com. She is a Balanced Body Master Instructor and Mentor. Elizabeth has participated in eight dissection courses taught by master dissectors Carla Stecco, Gill Hedley and Todd Garcia. She taught the movement component of dissection courses hosted by Tom Myers and by Balanced Body Pilates. Elizabeth is a participant in the Fascial Net Plastination Project, sponsored by the Fascia Research Society at Guben Plastinarium.
She is the moderator for the webinar series ‘Moved to Learn!’ 2020 produced by Handspring Publishing.
How Pilates has changed - will always change - and yet still remains the same
I have 61 years of living the method under me, six and a half years twice a week of lessons
with Joe and Clara, 1959-1966, followed by seven years successively with Bob Seed,
Romana Kryzanowska, Kathy Grant, Bruce King followed the next 20 years with Christine Wright, a professional dancer who became an exceptional Pilates teacher, all in NYC...56 years of private lessons from 1959-2015 the year Christine moved to Toronto, Canada. My greatest teacher for the past 5 years (from the age of 85-90) has been with me the whole journey waiting patiently for me to turn to it - my own body.
Mary Bowen, at 90, is our most Senior Pilates Elder still teaching
Yes, she taught me biomechanics, efficient movement patterns, ways of helping people experiencing chronic pain etc.
My time with Eve, as her apprentice taught me what I consider a higher purpose which is to lead us toward a deeper understanding of ourselves, and how to free ourselves from patterns that restrict our life force, allowing us to experience more vitality, appreciate our life and if we teach others, to be able to be truly open and available to serve.
Core as Relationship... with Gravity, Ourselves, One Another and Our Environment
Kevin has been involved in the health, fitness and Pilates professions since 1988 and is regarded both in the United States and internationally as an advocate and authority for the Pilates industry. He is the founder of The Pilates Initiative a not for profit organization whose mission is to make Pilates accessible to everyone. He was the Co-founder of the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) and is the owner and Director of Core Dynamics Pilates a comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training Program based upon the lineage of Eve Gentry.
Mary Bowen at 90 is the eldest Pilates Elder still teaching. Also a Jungian psychoanalyst she is an outstanding mentor. She supports each Pilates teacher’s or client's creativity and self-development at any stage of her or his Pilates career. In Mary’s view a Pilates life is like a parallel journey on two huge highways – one to improve yourself yearly as a Pilates teacher or client and the other to develop your own unique self!
Mary has lived Pilates for 58 years. At 29 for six and a half years twice a week she studied with Joe and Clara themselves. Lessons for her did not end after Joe’s passing.
Consecutively for 7 years each she continued her Pilates study with Bob Seed, Romana Kryzanowska, Kathy Grant, Bruce King and Jean Claude West followed by 20 years until 2015 with Christine Wright who has relocated to Toronto. Mary is the only senior Pilates teacher who has been determined to weekly, and since age 80 bi-weekly, serve the student in herself through taking her own lessons for 56 years.
This includes the 42 years she has taught Pilates. In Mary’s words “The student and the teacher live together in us. There is no graduation from that duality.”
56 years of private lessons: 1959-2015 – all in NYC
6 and 1/2 years twice a week with Joe and Clara themselves
7 years with Bob Seed
7 years with Romana Kryzanowska
7 years with Kathy Grant
7 years with Bruce King
20 years with Christine Wright who moved to Toronto in 2015
At 85, the first time without a teacher to “go to,” Mary’s “ very best” teacher came forward:
her OWN BODY. Now 90, the most Senior Pilates Elder still teaching, Mary reports she is
still coming into her body.
Zoey Trap, MS is the Executive Director of Training and Education for Peak Pilates. She is known for her well thought out blend of theory and practice that provide insight to the instructor and the ability to provide great take-away-tools for their clients. Zoey has an MS in Exercise Science with a focus on Alternative Therapy and the Spine. In addition to her many Pilates certifications she is a certified Jivamukti Yoga Instructor and has successfully completed the Spiraldynamik®Basic course. Zoey is a sought after international author and presenter.
Equipment Needs: A mat placed against a wall
New York born Lolita San Miguel celebrated in 2014 her 56th anniversary of practicing the Pilates method. She received her first certification from Carola Trier, Joseph Pilates’ first disciple to open a studio and then studied with Mr. Pilates himself. Lolita holds the distinction of being one of the only two known practitioners to have been officially certified by Joseph and Clara Pilates and awarded degrees by the State University of New York to teach the Pilates Method. Lolita has also been certified by Polestar Pilates Education and was awarded a Gold Certificate by the Pilates Method Alliance. She is one of the four “Distinguished Elders” of the Pilates Method Alliance. After a distinguished career in dance–she was a soloist with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet for over ten years and ballet mistress for Ballet Hispanico for three years—Ms. San Miguel moved with her husband to Puerto Rico in 1977, where she founded Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico–now Puerto Rico’s finest ballet company– and was its Artistic and Executive Director for 27 years. She also founded Pilates y Mas, Inc. in Puerto Rico in 2000 to teach, train and certify teachers in association with Polestar Pilates Education. Ms. San Miguel retired from Ballet Concierto in 2005 and at the age of 70 started a new career, dedicated to the teaching of the Pilates Method. In 2009, she started her successful Pilates Master Mentor Program (PMMP), which has graduated an international group of over 120 teachers from the six habitable continents.
Lolita has published eight DVDs in her brisk selling “Lolita Shares Her Pilates ” series: “Mat I,” “Mat Repertoire,” “Reformer I,” “Reformer II,” “Pilates BodyWalk,” “Pilates Cadillac,” “Pilates Chair” and “Pilates Arcs & Barrel.” She recently published 3 new DVD’s Lolita Shares her Mat with Roller, Lolita Shares her Mat with Magic Circle, and Lolita Shares her Ped-O-Pull and other Pilates apparatuses. For a complete set of videos please visit: LolitaPilates.Com.
While holding a PMMP session in Dusseldorf, Germany in 2009, Ms. San Miguel decided to celebrate the international “Pilates Day” by offering free Pilates classes to over 150 persons in the King Frederick the Great Hall in the town of Monchengladbach, where Joseph Pilates was born and 20 minutes by car from Dusseldorf. She was shocked and sad to discover that no one knew about Joseph Pilates in the town of his birth. Right there and then she made it her mission to erect a Memorial Plaque honoring her teacher in his home town. On May 7, 2011, after two years of effort and a successful fund raising campaign, Ms. San Miguel accomplished her goal and a Memorial Plaque was placed under a linden tree, exactly where once stood the house where Joseph Pilates was born on December 9, 1883: 20 Waldenhauser Strasse. To further celebrate the occasion, she organized an international Pilates conference in Monchengladbach which was attended by Pilates aficionados from all over the world - Japan, Australia, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, the U.K. and of course the U.S. Present were 31 of Ms. San Miguel’s PMMP graduates.
In the fall of 2011 Ms. San Miguel took another bold step. For years she had turned down requests to start her own Pilates teaching training program. But realizing that she now had a strong base of Pilates professionals with a solid knowledge of her methodology and approach to the Pilates Method she had trained personally through her Pilates Master Mentor Program—who called themselves “Lolita’s Disciples”—she felt motivated enough and decided that she would design her own teacher training program and started work on its preparation. The result is Lolita’s Legacy™, which was officially introduced at the 2012 Pilates Method Alliance conference in Las Vegas.
Born in Munich, Jean-Claude Nelson entered the Academy of Music at the age of 7 to study classical and modern ballet. After receiving his state diploma, he was directly engaged by the Bavarian State Ballet and soon after moved abroad to dance as a soloist with the London City Ballet, the Ballet of Monte Carlo and the Ballet of the Opera of Lyon.
After intense international touring, Jean-Claude suffered a serious knee injury that forced him to interrupt his career. In this difficult period of life he started to study the Authentic Pilates Method.
He began his training in The Hague with Marjorie Oron and worked with Romana Krysanowska ,Sari Meija Santo among many others. He received his diploma in 2006 from the internationally renowned master teacher Romana Krysanowska (True Pilates New York, Romanaʻs Pilates).
In 2012, he decided to return to his home city of Munich to found the Bluebird Pilates Studio.
Jean-Claude has produced a series of Pilates videos that brought him worldwide recognition.
He is giving workshops through Europe, Asia, North and South America.
At the helm of Polestar is Brent Anderson, PhD, PT, OCS. Brent is a licensed physical therapist and orthopedic certified specialist with more than 22 years of experience.
Based on his extensive background in rehabilitation and movement science, Brent elaborates Joseph Pilates’ mind-body work through the Polestar curriculum by developing tools for critical-reasoning and applying supportive scientific research. He also infuses the integral role of psychology and energy systems on motor control and motor learning.
Brent is an influencer in performing arts medicine for his approach to rehabilitation in drawing from Pilates techniques. He is an active consultant for hospitals, universities, and wellness organizations throughout the world as well as an avid public speaker invited to lecture at health conferences and forums.
Brent received his degree in Physical Therapy at University of California, San Francisco in 1989 and his PhD. in Physical Therapy at the University of Miami in 2005. His doctoral thesis explored the impact of Pilates rehabilitation on chronic low back pain using psycho-emotional wellness and quality of life measures. He is currently adjunct faculty at the University of Miami, Division of Physical Therapy.
Dr. Brent will be teaching on the topic of Motor Learning, and explore how to create positive movement experiences for our clients. Topics will include the way we learn to move, two major types of motor learning, and Pilates tools to optimize the learning environment.
Working with selected students, we’ll dig deeper into both the Wunda Chair exercises themselves, as well as their ability to help you get more from your Matwork.
Notes:
You will need a Wunda Chair and a Mat or padding for exercises where your upper back, knees or bottom might otherwise be on a hard floor.
I will be using a Gratz Wunda Chair and the spring selections for the exercises will be based on the spring tensions of the Gratz chair springs. If your chair differs significantly, please research and choose the best and safest settings for your work.
Class will focus on both the strength and stretch elements with all the body-contouring support that makes the Spine Corrector workouts such a fan favourite!
This class is a WORKOUT and NOT A WORKSHOP.
The exercises will range from basic to challenging with safety tips throughout, however, if you need a teacher's attention this class is not for you.
Notes:
You will need a Spine Corrector and a Mat or padding for exercises where your upper back or knees might otherwise be on the hard floor. (e.g. Shortspine Massage)
A complete experience of the mat repertoire acquainting you with the history of Joseph Pilates, the importance of her breathing technic, her integration of the pelvic floor and the core, taking you through all spinal movements efficiently.
Everything in Lolita’s Pilates approach is structured and interlinked to create ideal movement flow and full body integration. Nothing in her work is random but all well thought through to always start a class addressing the whole body properly, to build up and layer the work to end a class standing, affirming a Perfect Pilates Posture.
This class is open for all to share and experience our unity through the power of the matwork witnessing an Elder Master Teacher at work !
Joseph Pilates said he was 50 years ahead of his time. He had visions that his work would be taught in schools, in hospitals and around the world. With current research in the fields of medicine and kinesiology, with rehabilitation programs in hospitals, with programs for children in schools and with the worldwide spread of the work of Joseph Pilates, the class presents how Pilates today is continuing to fulfill his visions.
Equipment: Spine Correctors, Wood Poles
Equipment: Mats
We’ll play with gravity, exploring fascial breath connections, which supports each person’s unique relationship of how your arms and legs ROOT THRU your shoulder and pelvic girdles TO your “Breathing Spine”. This embodied perspective allows you to unravel long held tensions and trauma through curiosity, non- judgmental dialog…moving beyond right/wrong…to listening for and being present with… what’s working and what’s missing in the moment.
We are then “shaping ourselves”, as movement educators, therapists and bodyworkers, by shifting the “context” of body as machine to be trained and fixed…to BEING “a living process”, a biologically intelligent, self-organizing and self-healing organism, which evokes our embryonic gestural fields of awareness…a primal portal to a resilient, empathetic, adaptive way of being in the world.
List of PROPS youmight use: Bolster or pillow, Long Theraband, 2 ROCKS or 3-5# weights
Tetsuo Yoshida is a Director of the Pilates Haus, and Certified Pilates Instructor.
Tetsuo Yoshida started studying Pilates with second-generation teacher and physical therapist Roberta Wein at PT and Pilates in New York City. He was certified in 2008 by the United States Pilates Association™, and became a teacher trainer for the program in 2015. He trained extensively with Master Teacher Brett Howard, a second-generation teacher who was certified by Joseph Pilates’ protégé Romana Kryzanowska. He has trained with Pilates elders Mary Bowen and Lolita San Miguel as well as Master Teachers Kathy Corey, Bob Liekens and Cary Regan. He has taught at Authentic Pilates Studio in Sydney, Australia as a guest teacher. He is certified to teach children and adolescents by Pilates Youth Organization.
Before Pilates, Mr. Yoshida had a career as a professional dancer for over 15 years in the U.S.A. and in Japan. He performed as a lead dancer in numerous musical productions including Aida, Carousel, Cats, The King and I, Miss Saigon and Westside Story. He also performed and toured with various dance companies including the Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company, MAD about Dance as well as the Fred Benjamin Dance Company, which he was Associate Artistic Director.
Tetsuo Yoshida has a B.A. in English and International Communication from Kanda University, Japan.
Blossom Leilani Crawford is the owner and director of Bridge Pilates in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her playful and powerful teaching methods, which she developed during the seventeen years she worked with Pilates Elder Kathleen Stanford Grant. Since then, Blossom has made it her mission to expose each one of her students to the joy and satisfaction that comes from intelligent exercise.
Blossom had the good fortune to be introduced to Pilates by Kathy Grant in 1993, during her first year as a dance student at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. A venerated teacher, Kathy was one of only two people to personally receive her Pilates teaching certification from Joseph Pilates himself. Blossom was impressed by the effect that Kathy's exacting and intuitive approach to Pilates had on maintaining and healing her body, and continued to study with her throughout her rigorous dance program.
After three years of working with Kathy, Blossom became her Teaching Assistant at NYU, an honored position that she held for over a decade (1996-2007). With Kathy's encouragement, Blossom went on to pursue private study with Pilates Elder Romana Kryzanoyska. She received her Pilates teaching certification in 1999, after six hundred hours of practice and observation.
Blossom's current work is a blend of her own considerable experience, Romana's more traditional set of training methods, and Kathy's flexible and demanding style. She is known for her ability to seamlessly integrate Pilates lineages as the situation demands, and for her insight into Kathy's work. The diverse stylistic approaches Blossom can access on the spot has made her a sought after Pilates instructor at conferences throughout the United States and abroad.
In January of 2006, Blossom opened Bridge Pilates to ensure a space where all styles of Pilates are present and honored, as Kathy had always taught her. In addition to teaching private sessions, workshops, and conferences, Blossom is a faculty member at Mark Morris Dance Center in downtown Brooklyn, where her vigorous group mat classes are open to the community. Most importantly, Blossom is the fiercely proud mother of two children-which means balancing the career she loves with her desire to get dinner on the table in time!
Born in the city of Porto, Portugal, Miguel da Silva inherited early age his father’s taste for physical activity.
He practiced many sports including handball, basketball, football, field hockey, cycling, swimming, surfing.
All this interest in varied physical activity, led him to the conclusion that - "everyone has a different body and different needs".
During his two years in the UK, Miguel started the practice of Yoga, increasing his
interests in the body with an entirely different concept from his regular fitness regime.
When back in Portugal, Miguel began his studies in Alternative Medicine, specializing in Shiatsu, Japanese massage technique, then later settled in Seville, Spain, perfecting the technique.
This is where he first experienced the Pilates Method.
Miguel suffered from back pain due to his posture and muscle tightness, which limited
the practice his favourite sport, surfing.
Through the practice of Pilates, he has improved his surfing and practically eliminated
the consistent pain in his lower back and gave him flexibility.
With his curiosity of the Pilates Method and its depth, this then led to several courses and workshops.
He then met, Fabien Menegon (Romana Kryzanowska's lineage), of the Spanish School of Authentic Pilates, and successfully completed his training with flying colours.
Following this, Fabien invited him to be part of the Spanish School of Authentic Pilates training program and help him to expand the brand.
Miguel is very passionate about Pilates, a respected member of the industry, owner of The Uno Pilates Studio - teaching director and master trainer.
Teacher at Pilatesology web site, guest teacher in many conferences and workshops around the world, following the dream to share the work of “Joe” Pilates
“I wanna to offer to all professional quality training to all those who wish to dedicate the Classical Pilates.”
Miguel was one of 12 selected global level to enter the highly regarded graduated program “ The work” at the vintage Pilates studio, under the mentorship of Jay Grimes himself . Graduated in 2016.
Co-funder of Uno Pilates Method - www.unopilatesmethod.com -
Let’s do our return to life mat work and feel all the energy running in our body after the session.
I’ll take you trough the original choreography, with the same number of repetitions and transitions.
