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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 both 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!
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.
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:
Extending the Spine Through Breathing and Discovering the True Natural Path
Day pass tickets are very limited, we strongly encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
Pilates students and teachers often ask me how I came to seem so fearless in enabling clients to find the right path to spinal extension when they are so nervous to go there. Join me for this fun and enlightening 3 hour workshop in which we will calm the nerves, and explore the process of helping you and your clients release any tension and fear that may reside in the spine, thus enabling it to extend – “blossom” – into its fullest expression of pure freedom and joy.
Breathing plays a huge role in freeing extension, as there are over 80 joints in the rib cage alone, most of them in the thoracic spine. Any tension, fear, pain, or confusion stuck in this area will absolutely block the spine’s ability to extend. In addition, each spine has its own unique path it must take, following the innate design of its amazing engineering. We will look at a number of different spines to bring awareness and understanding to those many unique ways it is possible to discover and experience each spine’s true natural path.
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 3 all-access pass gives you access to all sessions on this day including:
Practical Anatomy for Pilates Teachers – Seeing the Body Better
Finding Your Centre through your Feet and Hands – The Pilates Fortune Teller
Day pass tickets are very limited, we strongly encourage you to book early to avoid disappointment.
Does anatomy make you nervous? Have you ever felt you’ll never understand it? Never know enough? That it’s just too big a subject? Never fear – this workshop is for you.
Explore human musculo-skeletal anatomy in a totally practical, user-friendly, movement based, easy to understand way that will benefit every Pilates teacher who’s ever wished they
knew more. And all for the ultimate purpose of being able to help your client towards uniform development, one of the key Pilates principles.
Joseph Pilates was clear that Uniform Development was the goal of his work. Imbalanced, overdeveloped or under-developed muscles hinder the body’s ability to work well, leading to pain, dysfunction, reduced movement options, and ultimately injury. And certainly post injury or surgery, there can be quite dysfunctional muscle patterns that we teachers need to be able to help our clients with.
In this workshop, we’ll look at images, palpate muscles and bones, explore textural qualities of muscle tissue, and feel and watch it all move live, in real time, right in front of our eyes. You will walk away with confidence and tons of newfound knowledge that is easily applicable and valuable in your everyday teaching.
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!
In Pilates we often focus a lot on the abdominals and the “centre”, but Mr. Pilates’ writings make it very clear that his work is about normal, natural, whole body movement – that we should move like the animal we are. In other words, our abdominals should not need to be arbitrarily and mechanically contracted and held, but rather be automatically activated through normal, natural, full body movement. Given our innate design as an originally four-footed animal, this automatic access should naturally occur through the connection of our hands and feet.
Our feet and hands constitute half of all our bones. Given that, the number of joints in each is also considerable – several dozen at least – and therefore the number of muscles and nerves proportionally greater as well. This is a simple way to recognise the value and potential available in fully utilising them. In other words, the strong connection from brain to hands and feet, and back again, is undeniably essential to our survival and to our health.
In this Workshop you will get to explore the Pilates exercises through the perspective of hands and feet better connecting to our brain and centre, to learn how to achieve the fullest potential of the movements to create whole body health.
Watching film of a cheetah running, we will discover how the feet/hands trigger the appropriate action of all other muscles to enable the most efficient, effective movement possible. In this way, breathing is enhanced and unimpeded, and movement more powerfully cleanses and re-oxygenates the body.
Join Senior Educator Shannon for an in-person Chair Masterclass for all levels!
Shannon holds a Diploma of Professional Pilates Instruction (10537NAT) and has over 12 years of experience in the industry; instructing and in education roles. She started her career in Western Australia and has worked in Victoria before returning home to WA. She has worked in clinic settings alongside Allied Health and is experienced with the role Pilates can play and value within the health setting. Shannon is a nimble and effective communicator, and enjoys sharing her love and knowledge of the Method with Students and clients alike.
Reacquaint yourself with your upper body and shoulder girdle in this one-hour Chair Masterclass. This unique Masterclass will combine classical and contemporary exercises to give you a full body workout, focusing on progressive to early-intermediate Repertoire. Expect to enhance your body awareness, posture and range of motion while strengthening your upper body and shoulders. Shannon will also be introducing some new and creative exercises to keep things fresh, and provide some inspiration for your own classes!
