STUDENT TEACHER TEN-PACK
Ten private lessons with student teachers for $320.00. This is a significant savings over the regular student teacher rates. Three-month expiration.
MENTORING PROGRAM
If you’ve ever wished you could add another private lesson to your schedule but couldn’t afford to, read on.
Clients who are taking one private lesson a week with a faculty or senior faculty member may participate in our Mentoring Program as follows:
During your regular private lesson, a student teacher will observe and take notes.
In your additional lesson with the student teacher, the student teacher will reproduce and build out from the observed lesson, under the advisement of your regular teacher.
We see this as a way to provide continuity to our clients while making less expensive student teacher rates available to you, and furthering the education of our student teachers through the mentoring process. Regular student teacher rates or student teacher ten-pack rates apply.NEW MAT CLASSES
Back by popular demand—Saturday Mat Classes!
9:30 Saturday - Intermediate/Advanced, Rosi Toro-Landau
10:45 Saturday - Beginner, Warren Bernhardt
New – 7-week session at Woodstock Day School
4:30 Wednesday - Open Level, Sirkka Svanoe at Woodstock Day School (Nov. 7 – Dec. 19) Register by phone @ 246-3744 ext. 105 or 309. $70.00 for the session.
WINTER WORKSHOPS
Not just for Pilates practitioners, these are relevant and open to everyone!! Workshops are from 2:00-5:00 pm. Enrollment limited, please register early!!
Each workshop is $60.00, or take both for $110.00.
FEBRUARY 9th - WHAT IS THE PELVIC FLOOR?
And why is it important? A healthy, well-toned pelvic floor supports our abdominal organs and works in harmony with the movements of the abdomen, spine and hips. In pregnancy the pelvic floor must support a rapidly increasing load, and often the post-partum pelvic floor is compromised, leading to Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) and/or prolapse. It’s important for men as well--new research with functional MRI’s reveals a strong correlation between pelvic floor insufficiency and low back pain and instability. We’ll look at the anatomy and function of the musculature, engage in movement explorations designed to activate and tone the PF, and link it to the Pilates repertoire. Attendees will learn a home program for pelvic floor awareness and health that requires no special equipment. This workshop is a more fully developed version of the Pelvic Floor Workshop Martina taught last summer.
Martina Enschede earned a master’s degree in Speech and Vocal Therapy from the Academy of Speech Therapy in the Netherlands. She loves to sing and dance and, following graduation from the Academy of Pop Music in Amsterdam, toured through Europe with several musical productions. She moved to New York City in 2000.
In 2002, Martina received her Pilates certification from the Kane School of Core Integration, NYC, and has taken workshops with Helge Fisher and Sally Donnehauer. She taught Pilates at Riverside Pilates, Manhattan, and Riverspa, Irvington-on-Hudson, and has worked with healthy people, pregnant and post-partum women, and clients with knee/hip replacements, scoliosis, shoulder/neck injuries, carpal tunnel syndrome, osteoporosis and other conditions.
Martina is currently challenging her own pelvic floor with a pregnancy!
MARCH 29th - KEEPING YOUR BALANCE
Ever step off a curb and have to ‘catch’ yourself? Is standing on one leg a distant memory (or frequent fantasy)? Everyone would like to feel secure on their own two feet. The good news is that balance can improve dramatically with a little training. In this workshop you’ll learn about the components of balance and gait, how to improve your balance through safe, challenging exercises, how to safely ramp up the level of challenge -- and take home some exercises to strengthen the muscles most utilized in balance. We’ll spend a bit of time on some common balance problems and we’ll get in a workout for the hips, lower limbs and (believe it or not) the eyes and ears. This workshop and workout are for anyone interested in understanding and/or improving their balance, whatever their level of experience with Pilates.
Clyde Forth earned her BFA in Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in 1991 and her MFA in Visual Art from Bennington College in 1996 with a concentration in dance and sculpture. She has completed intensives in dance and improvisation with Terry Creach, Peter Schmidtz, Penny Campbell, Susan Sgorbati, Eiko and Koma, Yoshiko Chuma and KJ Holmes.
She has taught art, art history, performance art and dance at Bennington College, New School University/Eugene Lang College, and SUNY Ulster. Since 1989, she has been artistic director of Clyde Forth Visual Theatre and owner/director of Circle House Studios for Dance and Interdisciplinary Art. Clyde also presents original dance and performance works, and solo and group exhibitions of drawings, photos and installations, in the US, Canada and the UK.
Pilates has improved my general sense of well being. I feel better, stronger, younger and taller.
Isaac Abrams