Watch, listen, learn and enjoy a session from a Power Pilates Teacher Trainer. Observe her/him in action, bringing years of experience and knowledge into the studio.

Come and experience the challenge of an Advanced Power Pilates Mat class! The focus is on the transitions that will advance your ability to direct "minimum of movement for maximum of flow." Come prepared to move.

Learn how to integrate these useful props into your mat class or create a Pilates on the Ball class-great for Pilates Studios and Health Clubs. See how the use of various ball props can literally help place the beginner/intermediate student's center of gravity in their core, while challenging the advanced student with additional resources. Come prepared to workout and flow.

This workshops is designed to help clarify your understanding of the components and movements of the Secondary Powerhouse. We will start with an in-depth anatomical look at this very cool part of our bodies, and then move to actually working with the Pilates equipment and exercises that can help our clients stretch, strengthen, and stabilize in this area. You will leave with a good working knowledge and understanding of the exercises and ways you can help your clients understand, strengthen, stabilize, and healthfully work with this part of their bodies.

We, as instructors, sometimes question if we are telling the student too much or too little. Have you ever wondered, "Why do I feel as though I am talking and/or teaching so much and my client still isn't getting it?" During this workshop, we will look at appropriate cueing - verbal, as well as tactile. We will also discuss how to efficiently convey the wealth of information without flooding the client. Our philosophy has always been "appropriate cueing at the appropriate time."

Power Pilates believes in a classical approach to teaching, in a movement based, systematic, integrative style. Having students learn in a flowing style, with appropriate corrections at the appropriate time will transform their bodies and rid them of compensatory weaknesses that contribute to chronic weaknesses.

Think there's too much flexion in traditional Pilates? Look way back into Joe Pilates' work. During this workshop participants get to explore the concepts of safe inversion and extension and learn that Pilates is, in fact, full of opportunities to do so!

Spend four hours "Getting to Know Mary Bowen" - our most senior Pilates Elder still teaching who studied with Joe and Clara themselves. The workshop is broken into two sections. The first two hours will be on the evolution of Mary Bowen's Pilates, especially since she turned 70. The second two hours will focus on Mary's specialty, PILATES PLUS PSYCHE: The Application of Jungian Typology to the Teaching and Practice of Pilates - to help both the teacher and the client.
Mary began studying with Joe and Clara at the age of 29 for six and a half years twice a week. After Joe's passing Mary continued taking weekly private lessons for herself for 56 years with Bob Seed, Romana, Kathy Grant, Bruce King, Jean Claude West and Christine Wright, all in NYC. Mary was given permission to teach Pilates at the age of 45 by Romana in 1975 after 16 years of her own personal Pilates lessons and practice. Her Pilates continued to improve and deepen with teaching it and her own continuing lessons. The most dramatic change came in the year 2000 at 70. Mary will describe what evolved for her then which still continues.
In 1970-71, five years before being asked and permitted to teach Pilates, Mary began her parallel profession as a Jungian Psychoanalyst. These dual professions continued side by side separately for 20 years until 1995 when due to a client's distress Mary combined the two professions by calming down this client with a psychological explanation that the difficulty the client was having was natural and due to her typology, her psychological type at birth. She had been born an "Intuitive" and her body, in this client's case lay in the farthest deepest reaches of her unconscious which were not yet available. Mary was overheard and word got out what a wonderful help this had been. Now everyone wanted both from Mary - her two professions at once. PILATES PLUS PSYCHE was born. In the year 2001 it was presented at the second Annual Conference of the PMA and has been a unique contribution to the Pilates community world wide ever since.
Mary will teach the principles of Jungian Typology, how to find one's own type and one's client's. She will address as many of the workshop participants personally as is possible in the time allowed. The approach to and relationship with a client, the setting of a lesson, the expectations of what is possible and what is not are significantly influenced and helped when we can understand the practical usefulness of typology.
"YOUR PILATES AND ALL OF YOU IMPROVES WITH AGING!"

This workshop will focus on reviewing the Intermediate Mat exercises and variations. Learn how to challenge an intermediate student by utilizing intermediate and some advanced level exercises. This workshop will be helpful for those teaching mat as well as apparatus sessions. Be prepared to move and practice!

The Spine Corrector is that often-forgotten and hardly-ever-used piece of apparatus that spends most of its days sitting on the floor under the Cadillac. This mat-based workout takes the classical Spine Corrector exercises you know and love, and adds more creative exercises borrowing from the Reformer.

Watch, listen, learn and enjoy a session from a Power Pilates Teacher Trainer. Observe her/him in action, bringing years of experience and knowledge into the studio.

Buckle up; we are going to move on the Tower. Experience a non-stop-class incorporating classical Pilates Mat and Tower exercises, ideas and sweat galore.

Nobody's perfect, right? Right! This class will cover the beginner/intermediate mat exercises with safe and effective strategies and modifications for clients with special needs. We will review specific modifications for low back pain, knee injuries, shoulder pain, neck issues, osteoporosis and pregnancy. Come ready to work out and leave with new tools for your Power Pilates toolkit!

Advanced clients don't always have to do the advanced reformer or mat work to be challenged at their level. This is a matter of vocabulary. This workshop will help you to return to the Beginner System, to challenge the client with the clarity of anatomically stabilizing cues. We will revisit all of the biomechanical concepts and how to apply them to the basic workout!

Joe Pilates truly saw the body in its entirety when he developed his work. Not one part was ignored, and he invented various apparatus to offer assistance, resistance, and correction where ever it was needed. This workshop teaches participants about the hierarchy of the different inventions, their relationship to one another and the moving body, and how to reintegrate smaller devices such as the Toe Corrector and Neck Stretcher into modern teaching!

In this workshop you will learn or review the exercises you rarely see or get to teach. Be prepared for some fun and dynamic material to come your way today!

This workshop addresses the anatomical changes that occur during pregnancy. These changes necessitate a restructuring of the Power Pilates workout; including both mat and apparatus work. Following a brief overview of the physiological effects on the body, the class format is a sequential workout that is appropriate and safe, yet still interesting and challenging for the pregnant client. You will learn the necessary tools to work with this population. An important aspect of this workshop is cueing.