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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 Frances Cahill 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!
This Workshop is designed to empower Pilates Instructors of all genders and backgrounds to teach pregnant clients with confidence, with practical programming examples using a variety of Apparatus including the Reformer.
Learn about the physiological and emotional effects of pregnancy with the aim of learning how to progress and support pregnant clients through a comprehensive Pilates program.
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 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.
In this workshop you will explore 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.
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!
As Pilates teachers our main task is to utilise the profoundly valuable exercises Joseph Pilates designed to help people achieve optimal over-all health.
In actuality, however, we are often confronted with clients who require additional help with specific issues that can be a little outside our comfort zone and even our scope of practice. Some of the most common ones we often face include: neck tension and pain; spinal pathologies such as scoliosis, kyphosis, bulging/herniated discs, sciatica; joint concerns including gritty/clicking/popping sounds and arthritis; tendonitis, hernia, migraines, digestion and sleep problems, post-surgical issues including joint replacements, mastectomy; and more.
This Workshop will cover issues from the above list as requested by those personally attending. Bring your questions, confusions, and concerns – maybe even bring a suffering client if possible – so we can address as many as time permits.
Consider revealing your own struggles with any of these problems too, so we can all benefit from actual ‘live’ examples to help us learn and grow as teachers.
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:
Creating True Integrated Whole-Body Movement – Pelvic Floor, Psoas and Breathing
Matwork Masterclass
Defy Gravity – The IntenSion of Suspension
Day pass tickets are very limited, we strongly encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
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 you will utilise Pilates exercises to develop your 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 us 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 you 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 the centre.
Come prepared to move, explore, discover, awaken and heal your deep core to create whole body integration.
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!
Haven’t you ever dreamed of flying – of floating in air with that weightless feeling of freedom and release from gravity?
Pilates can make that feeling possible. It is the anti-gravity system, designed very intentionally to organise your body so wisely and naturally that you literally feel lighter and truly do defy gravity longer. However, it’s often taught from a more careful, slightly fear-based approach of stabilising or holding parts of the body to prevent movement, especiallyin the case of injury.
Instead, we can learn to teach from the natural truth that enabling and supporting movement through the amazing suspension system we all have in our own bodies is actually what heals.
Utilising the profound natural laws of movement, you can learn to teach a client how to move – not stabilise – in a suspension field of amazing bones, cables and fluids todevelop the strongest, lightest, most powerful body possible.
The geometry of energy. In this Workshop you will discover how to teach the idea of suspension versus stabilisation.
Utilising Pilates Mat and Reformer exercises you will explore ways of reconnecting to the innate ‘tensegrity’ in our bodies. Tensegrity, the term coined by Buckminster Fuller, means ‘tensional integrity,’ or “the use of internal forces to overcome external forces, as in a self-supporting sculpture,” which defines this universal truth – a way of following nature’s design to achieve more results with less effort.
Just watch Baryshnikov leap impossibly high above the dance stage and seemingly float there for a moment – or Michael “Air” Jordan jump into the air and actually appear to fly across the basketball court to make a dunk – and you know it’s humanly possible.
And we all can do it in our way – we just have to reconnect with our own unique personal suspension system.
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 is a 3-day course covering everything you have ever wanted to know about scoliosis!
MODULE 1: SCOLIO-PILATES® PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR
This is a 3-day course covering everything you have ever wanted to know about scoliosis.
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:
MODULE 2: SCOLIO-PILATES® PROFESSIONAL SEMINAR
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.
Catherine holds a Diploma in Professional Pilates Instruction (10537NAT) and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. First disocvering Pilates as a dancer, Catherine was then inspired to learn more about anatomy and health sciences at University. Catherine is always seeking out ways to further her understanding and application of the Method. She has a keen interest in rehab and injury management, and in addition to her many professional roles also works as Pilates Instructor for the Queensland Ballet.
Join Senior Educator Catherine Neal for a small-group Reformer Masterclass to fine tune your Reformer Technique and deep dive into some challenging Repertoire!
Aimed at Pilates Instructor Students and Pilates Professionals, this Masterclass is an opportunity to elevate your Self-Mastery, with hands-on assistance and feedback from one of the most experienced Pilates Educators in Australia.
Whether you’re a Reformer lover, Student or Instructor, join us for an hour of Reformer fun!
