#pilateslegacy

We are a part of a larger Pilates Community.

Last Sunday, Candice and I hit the road, taking a roughly 5 hour trip to Plum Island, Massachusetts for a Pilates Intensive on the beach! Summer = fun, going places, horizons expanding. Pilates is growing, evolving and thriving as evidenced in this buzzing community filled with such life and vigor!

Germany, Canada, Boston, NY, Vermont were all represented at this gathering hosted and organized by the Pilates powerhouse, (and my teacher training buddy in '95!) Clare Dunphy Hemani and outfitted by Gratz Industries. I had the great pleasure of co-teaching a Tricks of the Trade Workshop alongside, Clare and led my own workshop, "Get Your Pilates Business Moving!"

Along with the paella, ocean breezes and spontaneous moments of salsa, there was the method, the legacy, the budding businesses and the strengthening and healing power of Contrology, started by Joseph Hubertus Pilates almost a century ago. Clare and I are so blessed to have trained with Romana Krysanowska, keeper of the flame, protege of Mr. Pilates, and feel a great responsibility to play a part in carrying on Mr. Pilates' and Ms. Krysanowska's work. In three days, we just scratched the surface!