Ingrid Lootvoet has been developing her Pilates work with children for over thirty years. She is bringing her Pilates for Children workshop to our Autumn Connection Weekend on Sunday 29th September 2019. Here is an interview we did with her recently.

28th and 29th September
New venue in Marylebone, in the heart of central London.
Workshop timetable being announced soon!

Don't miss Michael Gale.
Pilates and the Shoulder 3 hour workshop and Neurology and Pilates as a full day workshop in Glasgow, Scotland.
19th/20th October 2019
Bookings open soon!

Pilates Foundation member Susan Nash has happily settled in West Auckland from London where she trained Pilates teachers, managed two Pilates Studios and taught more than 20 classes each week. We caught up with Sue to find out more about her extraordinary background, moving to New Zealand and what keeps her moving.

Our feet are unsung miracles of bones and tissue. Each foot has twenty-six bones and over one hundred muscles, tendons and ligaments. Every day, they support (be honest with yourself) any excess weight. They propel us from place to place over
many decades. They run for buses, stand doing the washing up, go on tiptoes to reach things. They are remarkable feats of engineering. If you doubt, ye of little faith, just look at robots. Even with all our technological advances, we struggle to make a
robot with articulating feet. Feet are amazing.

https://mailchi.mp/2771345fb16f/early-bird-workshop-prices-ends-this-week

May 10th-12th May 2019
International presenter Deborah Lessen joins us in London!
Check out our other fantastic workshop presenters.
BOOKINGS OPEN

Pilates Foundation member Silvia Gray talks about her Pilates practice, Feldenkrais and Bones for Life in the first of a series of articles celebrating the diversity and creativity of Pilates Foundation Teachers.

Joseph Hubertus Pilates was born in Monchengladbach Germany in 1883. As a child, Joe had asthma and other ailments so he turned to exercise and athletics to battle them. He became enamored by the classical Greek ideal of a man balanced in body, mind, and spirit, and he began to develop his own exercise system based on this concept.

Asymmetry is something that comes up a lot in my work. My own scoliosis gives me an inherent asymmetry that makes it impossible for me to skip straight to the hundred in my own practice. But my observations of other bodies is that, whilst there may not be a scoliosis, asymmetry is very common.