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Frances and Suzanne are co-Directors of Pilates ITC and Senior Educators based in Perth.
Frances is a Pilates Practitioner (91490NSW) and co-Director of Pilates Fitness Institute (PFI) in Perth. She has worked in the industry and Pilates education for over 10 years and is passionate about the role Pilates ITC is playing in reimagining “Pilates learning” in formalised and continuing education contexts. She is mentored by Sally Anderson and has trained with industry Masters at home and abroad including: Deborah Lessen, Blossom Leilani Crawford, Karen Clippinger, Rael Isacowitz and Brooke Siler. Frances has presented at the PAA Conference, is active in Continuing Education delivery around Australia. She has also served on the board of the industry’s peak body, Pilates Alliance Australasia (PAA).
Suzanne is a Pilates Practitioner (91490NSW) and co-Director of Pilates Fitness Institute (PFI) in Perth. She has over 10 years of combined industry and education experience and works hard to elevate the standard of education and grow a positive culture around lifelong learning in the Pilates industry. Suzanne is particularly excited by holistic biomechanical movement and has been strongly influenced by Karen Clippinger. She is also mentored by Sally Anderson, has presented at the PAA Conference, and delivers Continuing Education around Australia. She has served on the board of the industry’s peak body, Pilates Alliance Australasia (PAA).
One 60 minute private or duet studio appointment with either Frances or Suzanne.
Bookings open soon.
Limited places available!
Join Pilates ITC co-Director Suzanne Newby for a one-hour Matwork Masterclass!
This Masterclass is suitable for anyone with a minimum of two years of Pilates experience – long-time Pilates lovers, Students and experienced Instructors alike!
Join Pilates ITC co-Director Frances Cahill for a one-hour Reformer Masterclass!
This Masterclass is suitable for anyone with a minimum of two years of Pilates experience – long-time Pilates lovers, Students and experienced Instructors alike!
From Boulder, Colorado, Amy Taylor Alpers is a hugely influential Pilates Practitioner who studied under Pilates Elder Romana Kryzanowska.
Amy fell in love with Pilates because of the way it felt in her body. After having studied ballet at the Julliard School for Dance and dancing professionally, she found that Pilates was able to correct a number of imbalances she had created in her body.
Amy and her sister Rachel both became Pilates Instructors in 1989 under Romana’s Kryzanowska’s watchful eye at Pilates Studio in New York City. Romana Kryzanowska had taken over Joseph Pilates’ Studio after his death, with the goal of maintaining the integrity of his teaching.
Amy primarily works as a teacher trainer and Educator, having founded The Pilates Center (TPC) in 1990, and their Teacher Training Program in 1991 which is known all over the world. She is passionate about teaching people to reorganise the body through the Pilates Method to promote efficiency and power in movement.
Spend a full day learning with Amy Taylor Alpers. Your Day 1 all-access pass gives you access to all sessions on this day including:
Day pass tickets are very limited, we strongly encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
Join global Pilates superstar Amy Taylor Alpers for a one-hour Reformer Masterclass!
This Masterclass is suitable for anyone with a minimum of two years of Pilates experience – long-time Pilates lovers, Students and experienced Instructors alike!
Join global Pilates superstar Amy Taylor Alpers for a one-hour Matwork Masterclass!
This Masterclass is suitable for anyone with a minimum of two years of Pilates experience – long-time Pilates lovers, Students and experienced Instructors alike!
Joseph Pilates designed every movement in his system to involve the ‘whole body,’ and to connect it in its entirety to and from its core/centre/powerhouse. Do you move from your centre in a truly organic, whole body, integrated way? Are you able to assess whether your clients can – and if not, why not? In this workshop we will utilise Pilates exercises to develop our visual assessment skills to determine whether movement is actually coming from ‘the centre’ correctly and efficiently, and if not, how to correct it. The ultimate power and health potential that can be achieved through Pilates is only possible when this integrated connection is accessed as its inherent human design dictates.
This Workshop will begin with an anatomy discussion of what constitutes our centre/core/powerhouse to better help you understand what we truly mean by these terms. This will include the abdominals, psoas, pelvic floor and diaphragm.
Then we will explore how all these muscles work together in natural harmony through breathing correctly. This is how to create truly integrated whole-body movement. Then we will look at Pilates exercises to discover the deep power of their design to organise and unite the body into a single moving animal through breathing and moving from our centre.
Come prepared to move, explore, discover, awaken and heal your deep core to create whole body integration.
Spend a full day learning with Amy Taylor Alpers. Your Day 2 all-access pass gives you access to all sessions on this day including:
The Universal Reformer Then and Now – The Archival Reformer
Matwork Masterclass
Day pass tickets are very limited, we strongly encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
This Workshop explores the differences between the current versions of the original Pilates Reformer Repertoire and the versions as shown in archival film footage and photography of Joseph Pilates teaching in the early 1940s. The subtle alterations and variations in form and choreography provide valuable “new” insights into the purpose and goals of the exercises.
From Footwork to Russian Squats, slight tweaks to the designs of many of the extant exercises powerfully reveal and clarify his intention, and thereby, help the practitioner better focus on the intended objective. Rhythm and dynamic emphasis are accentuated, and consequently, muscle power is heightened. In addition to the variations on exercises with which we are already familiar, several entirely “new” archival exercises – ones many have never seen or tried before – will be learned.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to expand your knowledge and understand your history.
Join global Pilates superstar Amy Taylor Alpers for a one-hour Matwork Masterclass!
This Masterclass is suitable for anyone with a minimum of two years of Pilates experience – long-time Pilates lovers, Students and experienced Instructors alike!
Uniform development inherently arises from the ideal, innately “true” timing of muscles firing to create healthy movement. In this workshop we will utilise the Pilates exercises and equipment to strengthen our depth of understanding of the precise timing required and to develop our visual assessment skills of these patterns and progressions. Mastery of these will help us determine how to accurately support our clients to achieve their most powerfully healthy movement choice.
Spend a full day learning with Amy Taylor Alpers. Your Day 3 all-access pass gives you access to all sessions on this day including:
One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Chair Masterclass
Bend, Don’t Stretch – It’s a Muscle Thing!
Day pass tickets are very limited, we strongly encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
Body types are often referred to in fruit metaphors – apple, banana, or pear shaped. Or geometric forms such as rectangles, triangles, and circles. Or odd scientific terms such as mesomorph, ectomorph, and endomorph. However, the variations in the human body’s design are much more diverse and complicated than that.
In Pilates our mission is to help ‘uniformly develop’ the body – to bring it into ideal balance and alignment so it can move with ultimate efficiency and effectiveness, enabling detoxification and reoxygenation through unhindered circulation.
Regardless of both genetic programming and lifestyle issues, it is possible to enable any body to be more uniformly developed through Pilates. However, this doesn’t happen automatically simply by teaching them to do the exercises. It requires that the teacher truly acknowledge all the essential facts about the body in front of her/him, and realise that the Pilates exercises will need to be adapted in such a way that they will very purposefully accomodate all physical inconsistencies.
Proportions of weight, height and length, as well as relative tightness and flexibility, as well as male/female differences in distribution of mass will all need to be taken into consideration. It’s basically a physics problem. How do we make the Pilates exercises fit each person’s unique design to help achieve our ultimate goal – uniform development?
Join global Pilates superstar Amy Taylor Alpers for a one-hour Chair Masterclass!
This Masterclass is suitable for anyone with a minimum of two years of Pilates experience – long-time Pilates lovers, Students and experienced Instructors alike!
Joseph Pilates was a short, stocky, strong muscled man. He felt it was important to keep his strong muscles flexible. Consequently, in teaching Pilates we’ve been encouraged to use words like lift, reach, lengthen, decompress, and stretch.
However, often as Pilates teachers, we actually see people who are the opposite of this – they don’t need to stretch at all, but rather to make their flexible muscles strong. Constantly lengthening and reaching only pulls many people apart and puts tension and unnecessary stress into their muscles. These clients actually often need to contract or shorten their muscles, instead of lengthening them. That’s how they would truly build integrated strength.
Human movement is created by muscle contraction, so the mental concept of thinking “lengthen”, “reach”, “stretch” while you move is somewhat of a misconception. Muscles literally can’t do any of these things; they can only contract, hold a contraction, or release the contraction relative to another muscle contracting or a force such as gravity. In other words, they can contract in three ways – they can contract and shorten in length (concentric), contract while maintaining their length (isometric), and finally, release from a contraction (eccentric). So all movements, including all Pilates exercises, are actually an amazing, complicated combination of these types of contractions.
Helen New holds the Advanced Diploma of the Pilates Method (91490NSW) and specialises in the management of Scoliosis. As well as delivering Workshops for Pilates Instructors, she educates dancers on injury prevention and delivers rehabilitative programs after injury.
After suffering an injury herself in her early twenties, Helen discovered Pilates. Despite being told she would never dance again, Pilates was able to help mend her body and enabled her to dance professionally for another two decades.
Her interest in Scoliosis developed after discovering her stepdaughter had developed a severe curve at age 11. At this time, Helen spent a great deal of time researching Scoliosis to help her stepdaughter avoid surgery. She has written and presented her own Scoliosis Workshop “Curvy Bodies” across Australia, leading her to be invited to represent Scolio-Pilates® in Australia by its founder Karena Thek.
This course is a building block and lays the foundation for the Scolio-Pilates® Module 2: The Professional Seminar. You will receive a strong base in the anatomy of scoliosis to help you understand what is happening under the skin that creates the changes we see and experience with scoliosis on the surface and with movement. With this understanding, you will be better equipped to make the best scoliosis specific exercise choices.
Topics to be covered include:
What is scoliosis? Who it affects and its effects on the systems of the body
Experience scoliosis! What it feels like to do Pilates with scoliosis
Anatomy of Scoliosis
Understanding functional v structural scoliosis
Defining the convexities and concavities
Theories and laws of movement that apply to scoliosis
The first 5 exercises for scoliosis
Module 2 builds upon the pre-requisite Module 1, Scolio-Pilates® Professional Seminar.
We will dive deeper into understanding the anatomy of scoliosis and use that understanding to define the curves of scoliosis (3, 4 and thoraco-lumbar curves). Once we define the curves we can begin to understand how to correct those curves towards neutral. We use scoliosis specific corrections and scoliosis specific exercises to aid us in bringing our clients towards a more balanced system.
The scoliosis specific exercises begin with corrections in the basic positions of prone, supine, side-lying, seated and standing. Once the corrections are applied in the basic positions, we add movement to these corrections either on the mat or with the assistance of the Pilates equipment. Come learn why Scolio-Pilates®, a form of Pilates that allows for modifications to assist the client with scoliosis in the Pilates studio, is now being used by children’s hospitals, physical therapy clinics and Pilates studios worldwide to help with the management of scoliosis.
