June Calendar of Events
Your guide to this month’s hottest Pilates happenings.
Note: All information was correct as of publication. Please call or visit the web sites for more information. If you have a listing you’d like included in a future newsletter, please send all relevant information to newsletter@pilatesstyle.com.
6/1 Power Pilates Comprehensive Program (Teacher Training)
Dallas, TX
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/1 John Garey Pilates: Intensive Reformer
Seven Oaks Rehabilitation and Fitness Center, Westlake Village, CA
562-598-8585
johngareypilates.com
6/1–2 Peak Pilates Level I & II Classical Chair
Peak Bodies, Bozeman, MT
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/1–3 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
Austin, TX
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/1–3 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
Salem, OR
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/1–3 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
Chicago, IL
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/1–3 STOTT Intensive Mat Plus Begins
Studio One Pilates, Springfield , MO
417-865-0500
studioonepilates.com
6/1–3 STOTT Intensive Reformer Training Begins
Pacific Northwest Pilates, Portland, OR
503-292-4409
pacificnwpilates.com
6/1–30 10% of Proceeds from Wunda Chair Classes Benefit the American Cancer Society
Centre Pilates®, Newtown, PA
215-579-0007
centrepilates.net
6/1–3 Build It, Roll It, presented by Yamuna® Body Rolling and Anatomy in Clay™
Yamuna Studio, New York, NY
212-633-2143
www.yamunastudio.com
6/2 Peak Pilates MVe Instructor Prep Workshop
Peak Pilates, Boulder, CO
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/2 Power Pilates—CPR: Heartsaver AED for Adult, Child, and Infant (Continuing Education)
Annapolis, MD
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/2 Power Pilates—Pilates Mat with the BalleCore Barre with Molly Weeks and Charlyn d’Anconia
Boston, MA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/2 Power Pilates—Fine Tune Your Beginner and Intermediate Mat Class with Leah Chaback-Katz (Continuing Education)
Eastsound, WA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/2 Power Pilates—Special Cases: Understand & Adapt with Carrie Macy (Continuing Education)
Santa Monica, CA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/2–3 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training and Mind Body Fitness Conference
Minneapolis, MN
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
6/2–3 Peak Pilates Level I Chair & Barrel
Austin Pilates Barn, Austin, TX
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/2–3 Initiation 101 Pilates Mat Training
Personalized Pilates, Scottsdale, AZ
602-750-5799
PersonalizedPilates.com
6/2–3 Amy Alpers Teaches “Timing Is Everything” Workshop
Real Pilates, New York, NY
212-625-0777
realpilatesnyc.com/events.html
6/2–3 Teacher Training and Certification Program Level 2: Modules 5 & 6
The Pilates Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa
2711 784-3988
pilatescentre.co.za
6/3 Power Pilates—Spotting and Supporting Your Students with Leah Chaback-Katz (Continuing Education)
Eastsound, WA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/3 Power Pilates—Strategies for Semi Private Sessions with Juliet Harvey (Continuing Education)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/4 Power Pilates—Magic Circle Madness with Lisamay Scott (Continuing Education)
Irvine, CA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/4–5 Peak Pilates Level I & II Classical Chair
Progressive Bodyworks, Newburyport, MA
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/7 Power Pilates—Kinesiological Evaluations with Dr. Joshua (Continuing Education)
Santa Monica, CA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/7–8 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Sandy, Utah
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
6/8 Power Pilates Comprehensive Program (Teacher Training)
Annapolis, MD
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/8–10 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
Atlanta, GA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/8–10 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
Carmel, CA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/8–10 Power Pilates Intermediate Mat (Teacher Training)
Redmond, WA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/8–10 Level 1 Weekend Teacher Training
Core Dynamics Pilates, Santa Fe
877-988-5076
coredynamicspilates.com
6/9 Power Pilates—Creative Wunda Chair Choreography with Veronica Combs (Continuing Education)
Austin, TX
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/9–10 Personalized Pilates’ Anatomy in Clay
Edmond, OK
602-750-5799
PersonalizedPilates.com
6/9–15 Body Control Pilates with Lynne Robinson
Chiva-Som International Health Resort, Hua Hin, Thailand
chivasom.com
6/10 Power Pilates—CPR: Life Safe Services CPR and AED (Continuing Education)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/11–14 Levels 1 & 2 Weekend Teacher Training
Core Dynamics Pilates, Santa Fe
877-988-5076
coredynamicspilates.com
6/13 Power Pilates—Open Level Tower System with Dana Eisenstein (Continuing Education)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/14–17 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
Clain Pilates +, Maplewood, NJ
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/14–17 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
The Pines Studio, Pittsburgh, PA
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/15 Anatomy 101
John Garey Pilates, Long Beach, CA
562-253-3468
johngareypilates.com
6/15 Power Pilates—Advanced Mat Work with Susan Moran-Perich (Continuing Education)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/15 Power Pilates Comprehensive Program (Teacher Training)
Chicago, IL
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/15–16 Peak Pilates Living Anatomy Series Workshop
Peak Pilates, Boulder, CO
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/15–17 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
Precision Pilates, Annapolis, MD
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/15–17 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
Pure Pilates, Hanover, MA
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/15–17 Level 2 Weekend Teacher Training
Core Dynamics Pilates, Santa Fe
877-988-5076
coredynamicspilates.com
6/15–17 Level 3 Weekend Teacher Training
Core Dynamics Pilates, Chicago
877-988-5076
coredynamicspilates.com
6/15–17 Power Pilates Intermediate Mat (Teacher Training)
Atlanta, GA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/15–17 Power Pilates Intermediate Mat (Teacher Training)
Memphis, TN
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/16 Power Pilates—Basics of Anatomy with Juliet Harvey (Continuing Education)
Beacon, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/16 Power Pilates—Barrels of Fun with Alison Laundrie (Continuing Education)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/16 Mat-a-Thon Fund-raiser for Stephie’s Journey Toward Healing
Core Basics, Kirkland, Quebec
514-630-7818
corebasics.com
6/16–17 Teacher Training and Certification Program Level 2: Modules 7 & 8
The Pilates Centre, Joburg, South Africa
2711 784-3988
pilatescentre.co.za
6/16–17 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Vancouver, WA
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
6/17–19 Movement Therapy for Children: Infant through Pre-Adolescent
Thetford, VT
888-576-0340
team-pilates.com
6/18 Intensive Mat Plus
John Garey Pilates, Long Beach, CA
562-253-3468
johngareypilates.com
6/18–19 Peak Pilates Level I & II Barrel
Progressive Bodyworks, Newburyport, MA
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/21 Power Pilates—Archival Mat, Standing Exercises and More! with Shari Berkowitz (Continuing Education)
Beverly Hills, CA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/21–22 Understanding Pilates Mat (Teacher Training)
Kansas City, MO
888-576-0340
team-pilates.com
6/21–24 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
Urban Lair at Rolling Hills Estates, Rolling Hills Estates, CA
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/22 John Garey Pilates: Advanced Reformer
YMCA, Mission Viejo, CA
562-598-8585
johngareypilates.com
6/22 Power Pilates—Programming a Pilates Session To Match Your Client’s Needs and Goals with Veronica Combs (Continuing Education)
Dallas, TX
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/22 Power Pilates System Training Level 1 (Teacher Training)
Atlanta, GA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/22 Power Pilates System Training Level 2 (Teacher Training)
Annapolis, MD
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/22–24 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
Beverly Hills, CA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/22–24 Power Pilates Beginner Mat (Teacher Training)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/22–24 Pilates on Tour-Washington, DC
Washington, DC
877-PILATES
bbu.pilates.com
6/22–24 Mat Certification Level 1
SynergySystems® Fitness Studio, Encinitas, CA
760-632-5677
synergypilates.com
6/23 Power Pilates—Advanced Mat Choreography with Kristin Moses (Continuing Education)
Dallas, TX
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/23 Power Pilates—Back To Basics with Erin Hurlburt (Continuing Education)
New York, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/23–24 Peak Pilates Basic Mat
The Good Space, Houston, TX
800-925-3674
6/23–24 Concentration 301 Pilates Rehab Protocols
Personalized Pilates, Scottsdale, AZ
602-750-5799
PersonalizedPilates.com
6/23–24 Peak Pilates Level II Chair & Barrel
Pilates of Greenville, Greenville, SC
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/23–24 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Jacksonville, FL
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
6/24 Power Pilates—Spotting and Supporting Your Students with Leah Chaback-Katz (Continuing Education)
Kingston, NY
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/24–7/1 Pilates and Gyrotonic Week, with Erin Romney
Cal-a-Vie, Vista, CA
866-772-4283
cal-a-vie.com
6/27 Power Pilates—More Cadillac! with Linda Spriggs (Continuing Education)
Chicago, IL
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/28–30 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
Peak Bodies, Bozeman, MT
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/29–30 II Mediterranean Pilates Conference
Corpora Pilates, Canary Islands (Spain)
corporapilates.com
6/29–30 Peak Pilates Level I Chair & Barrel
The Pines Studio, Pittsburgh, PA
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/29–7/1 Peak PilateSystem Level I Certification (first weekend)
Velociti Fitness League, Dallas, TX
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/29–4/1 Power Pilates Intermediate Mat (Teacher Training)
Cleveland, OH
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/30 Power Pilates—Real Men Do Pilates with Davidson Reid (Continuing Education)
Atlanta, GA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/30 Power Pilates—Pilates Pregnancy with Anne Brendle (Continuing Education)
Atlanta, GA
212-627-5852
powerpilates.com
6/30 Peak Pilates MVe Instructor Prep Workshop
Peak Bodies, Bozeman, MT
800-925-3674
peakpilates.com
6/30–7/1 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Denver, CO
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
7/3–7 Pilates Summer Course
University of Alcala-Madrid, Corpora Pilates (Spain)
uah.es
corporapilates.com
7/6–8 Pilates Weekend
New Age Health Spa, Neversink, NY
800-682-4348
newagehealthspa.com
7/6–8 STOTT Advanced CCB
Studio One Pilates, Springfield , MO
417-865-0500
studioonepilates.com
7/6–8 STOTT Reformer 50 Hours Begins
Studio One Pilates, Springfield , MO
417-865-0500
studioonepilates.com
7/8–12 Nine-Day Intensive Pilates Teacher Training begins
SynergySystems® Fitness Studio, Encinitas, CA
760-632-5677
synergypilates.com
7/8–18 SynergySystems® CORE Intensive
SynergySystems® Fitness Studio, Encinitas, CA
760-632-5677
synergypilates.com
7/9 Intensive Reformer
John Garey Pilates, Long Beach, CA
562-253-3468
johngareypilates.com
7/14–15 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Council Bluffs, IA
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
7/15–22 Pilates Week with Tammi Shore
Golden Door Spa, Escondido, CA
800-424-0777
goldendoor.com
7/21–22 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Las Vegas, NV
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
7/27 Intensive Mat Plus
John Garey Pilates, Long Beach, CA
562-253-3468
johngareypilates.com
7/28–29 PilatesFit Level 1 Teacher Training
Chicago, IL area
888-786-3111
YogaFit.com
10/20–27 From the Core: Eco-adventures, Pilates, Gyrokinesis® and Yoga with Tannis Kobrinsky of Health Habitravels
Jungle Bay Spa and Resort, Dominica, Caribbean
(213) 482-3150
healthabitravels.com
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Conference Update
June is here, and that can only mean one thing: This year’s first Pilates Style conference is upon us. Join us in Hollywood, FL, June 22–24 for the world’s greatest gathering of Pilates experts, vendors, and aficionados. Here’s just a sampling of the Florida fun we’ll offer up:
- Exclusive Pedipole Workshop with Katrina Foe—Pedipole workshops are not offered anywhere but Pilates Style conferences!
- Sunrise Meridian Yoga/Pilates Mat Class, with Michael Fritzke & Ton Voogt
- Poolates, with Rebecca Pfeiffer
- Reformer Work for Golfers, with Kathy Corey
New this year are à la carte evening classes for Pilates enthusiasts. At each conference, world-renowned teachers like Mari Winsor, Michael Fritzke and Ton Voogt will offer classes for people who love Pilates but aren’t necessarily professionals. These one-of-a-kind sessions do not require conference registration, making them the perfect way for casual Pilates practitioners to study with some of the country’s best teachers.
Visit pilatesstyle.com for more information about these and other classes at the Hollywood conference.
You can also register online for our two other conferences. Class sign-up is now available for our New York conference.
August 7–9
Hilton New York
New York, NY
October 19–21
Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
El Dia de Pilates
On May 5, Corpora Pilates, a Madrid-based professional Pilates association, coordinated Pilates Day events in more than 30 Spanish cities. Events included outdoor classes, studio open-houses, and films. In each location, the manifest written by Dr. Juan Bosco Calvo, who introduced Pilates to Spain, was read.
International Pilates Day is a celebration organized by the Pilates Method Alliance to promote healthy habits and to spread the Pilates method around the world. Looks like it’s working!
For more information, visit www.pilatesday.com.
Mind Over Matter
By Deirdre Shevlin Bell
In the May/June issue of Pilates Style, we talked with Judith Beck, author of The Beck Diet Solution (Oxmoor House, 2007), about her revolutionary—and simple—approach to weight loss. Beck, who is director of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy in suburban Philadelphia and daughter of psychiatrist Aaron Beck, MD, who developed CT in the early ‘60s, has found that simple thought-changing strategies can help people lose weight and keep it off for good.
One of the main challenges many people, especially women, face when trying to lose weight is the desire to please others. Even if we promise ourselves we’re not going to cheat on our diet—we always have the best of intentions, don’t we—we will almost always give in to social pressure to eat if we feel like it would be rude not to.
Beck offers up two mantras to help you through times when you worry that turning down food would disappoint someone else:
- You’re entitled to work toward your goal of losing weight as long as you’re not maliciously trying to make someone feel bad.
- It’s okay to disappoint others. Disappointment is a normal part of life. Their disappointment will most likely be mild and fleeting.
To make her point, Beck recounts an experience she had while writing her book. She was at a dessert reception being held in her honor after a workshop she had given. The hostess offered up a bounty of homemade desserts, but Beck ate only a few pieces of sliced fruit. The hostess repeatedly asked her to try different desserts, but Beck politely declined.
When she tells this story to dieters, Beck says she receives some disapproving reactions. Some say she was rude for refusing and must have made her hostess feel terribly disappointed. But Beck had the opportunity to see her hostess again and ask what she thought about the dessert refusal. The hostess looked puzzled and said that she hadn’t remembered that Beck hadn’t eaten much, and that she too often looked for ways to politely decline food so she could stick to her diet.
Stick to your diet plan, Beck urges, and feel empowered in your decision to politely decline food that is not on it. Most likely, your host won’t even notice. If he does, he’ll likely have only a mild and fleeting feeling of disappointment. Besides, Beck asks, why is it more important to please someone else than it is to do what’s best for you?
Vive la Résistance!
Imagine being able to take your Reformer with you anywhere you go—just folding it up, slipping it in your purse, and heading out on your way. Not possible, of course, but with resistance tubing, you can carry many of the Reformer’s benefits with you wherever your summer travels may take you.
In the May/June issue of Pilates Style, Michele Olson, PhD, FACSM, CSCS, gave us a complete Reformer workout to-go, but she saved one exercise just for our newsletter readers.
Stag Legs
What it is: Stag Legs is an asymmetric exercise that focuses on the inner and outer hip and thigh muscles. It requires a greater range of motion, which increases the force of muscular contraction during each repetition.
How to do it
- Lie on your back with the center of the tubing under your back, about eight inches below your armpits. Place feet in handles with knees bent and apart, heels together with toes apart. Use a pillow or other prop under your head for support or tuck your chin, lengthening the back of your neck to lift your head four to inches off the floor. Both techniques will prevent you from hyper-extending your spine away from the mat. A supportive prop under the head can actually mimic the inclined headrest provided by most Reformer machines.
- To begin the exercise, stabilize your pelvis by tightening the abs just below the navel. Straighten your legs to a 45-degree angle with legs and feet together and toes turned outward.
- Inhale, then exhale while bending your left knee to pull the heel of your left foot toward your crotch. At the same time, open your right leg outward away from the start position, keeping the knee straight. Inhale again, then exhale while actively squeezing your inner thighs as you return to the start position. Throughout the exercise keep inner thighs of both legs facing the ceiling as much as possible and perform the movement slowly. Do 2 sets of 8 to 10 reps.
Tip: Pretend your are sliding the left foot along the inner thigh of the right leg as your bring that foot toward your crotch and return it to the start position. This will help to keep the movement as smooth and coordinated as possible while ensuring the proper range of motion.
Advanced: Use two tubes to double the resistance and amp up the activity of the inner and outer thigh muscles.
Modification: Start with both legs in a wide “V” shape. Then slowly bend the left knee to bring the heel of the left foot toward the crotch. Return that leg to the wide “V” position and repeat with right leg. Working with only one leg moving at a time will help to develop the coordination and control needed to successfully execute this exercise.
Pilates for Peace
A quaint American mountain town is working with Pilates centers nationwide to raise money for children of mountain communities halfway around the world.
Mountain to Mountain, a Breckenridge, CO–based organization established to coordinate fund-raising efforts for projects in remote mountain areas around the world, has joined with Pilates and wellness studio Oasis 9600 to create the Pilates for Peace fundraising program, a grassroots effort to raise money for the Central Asia Institute (CAI). CAI is a nonprofit organization that provides community-based education and literacy programs, especially for girls, in mountainous regions of Central Asia.
If your business or studio would like to get involved, contact Shannon Galpin (shannon.galpin@comcast.net or 970.376.0754). Your involvement could be as simple as placing a donation jar at your front desk, or you can let your imagination be the limit when thinking of fund-raising ideas.
In addition to the Pilates for Peace fund-raiser, Mountain to Mountain is hosting a series of local, community-wide events: event with Greg Mortensen, executive director of CAI and author of Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace, One School at a Time; a Pennies for Peace fundraiser throughout the Summit County school system; and the finale charity running race, Race for the Mountains, on June 24, 2007.
For more information, contact Tara Dugan (970-389-4248, taradugan@comcast.net) or Shannon Galpin (970.376.0754, shannon.galpin@comcast.net).
Close-up: Hug-a-Tree
By Nancy S. McKay
Hug-a-tree on the Reformer is a wonderful exercise for shoulder integration, pulling together the front and back of the shoulder and tying the shoulder girdle in with the core. It helps us learn to stay out of our necks and to use the muscles of the shoulder girdle instead. At the same time, it strengthens the arms and chest.
However, I often find that when people first start doing the exercise, they have trouble isolating the tricep and differentiating the upper arm from the lower arm. With some simple preparatory exercises, though, students can learn the feeling of independent arm movement, free of neck tension, before getting onto the Reformer.
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Lie on the mat, face down, with forehead on the mat. Extend your arms perpendicular to your body, palms flat on the floor. Start by using your shoulder blades to roll your shoulders up, back and around. Do this 3 times, then switch directions and do it 3 more times.
- Allow your shoulders to relax. With palms still flat on the ground, lift elbows up and to the back, like you’re tracing a semicircle with your elbows. Lower to start position and repeat 3 times.
- Roll shoulders back, and keeping them there repeat the elbow lifts three times. You should feel your shoulder girdle stabilize as your arms move independently.
Now, moving onto the Reformer, try to keep that feeling of stabilization and isolation you just found.
- Sit on Reformer with legs crossed, facing footbar, with hips against shoulder rests. Hold the straps’ handles in your hands with arms outstretched to the sides, palms facing forward. Keep shoulders back and down and elbows lifted to the back as in the warm-up.
- On the inhale, pull the straps forward to bring your hands together, maintaining the shape of your arms (don’t bend or straighten them any more than they were when you started). Exhale and return arms to start position. Repeat 3 times, and then pause before doing 3 more reps with reversed breath (exhale on the pull, inhale on the return).
Nancy S. McKay trained at the Pilates Center in Boulder, CO, where she later taught aspiring instructors for 10 years. She now teaches mat and equipment classes and privates at Denver’s Plumbline Pilates, 2335 West 44th Avenue, 303-433-3953, plumblinepilates.com.
Talk About Teamwork!
By Amanda Altman
Three of the most respected Pilates training organizations—Body Arts and Science International (BASI)™, Polestar Pilates® and Power Pilates®—are joining forces to bring together experience, unique teaching styles and multiple instructors with the goal of encouraging professionals to learn from a variety of leaders in the field. Rael Isacowitz, Howard Sichel and Brent Anderson aim to fuse their experience and individual philosophies to further the industry’s education, knowledge and, of course, open-mindedness.
Calling themselves Tristar, they are offering joint continuing education courses and workshops and, in an unprecedented move, are accepting one another’s classes as accreditation toward certification renewal. Be part of this exciting collaboration, which will kick off at the Pilates Style conference this month in Hollywood, FL, and also will be available at the NYC and Chicago conferences. For more info on TRISTAR, visit basipilates.com, powerpilates.com and polestarpilates.com.
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