“Change happens through movement, and movement heals” Joseph Pilates
Pilates Teacher Workshops in St. Louis
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Two Enriching Pilates Workshop 1 coming your way
Pilates Continuing Education Sessions
Saturday, February 22, 2025
Central Studio Clayton
7731 Clayton Road
1 workshop $165, both workshops $295
Register for Here for Feb. 22nd workshop
Pilates Continuing Education Sessions
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Central Studio Pershing
5617 Pershing Ave
1 workshop $165, both workshops $295
Register Here for Feb. 23rd workshop
Extra Pilates Class Opportunities:
Master Classes With Debora:
8:30 AM Group Equipment $45/hr
9:30 AM Group Equipment - $45/hr
10:30 AM Group Mat Class - $25/hr
Sunday, February 23, 2025
Email support@centralstudiostl.com for private session or duet requests
Private Sessions - $125/hr
Duet Private Session - $80/person
9:00 AM Private or Duet Sesson
10:00 AM Private or Duet Session
11:00 AM Private or Duet Session
Debora Kolwey will also present at Pilates and Custom Fitness Deconstructing Advanced Pilates Work on Friday, Feb. 21st. Click the link for more info: https://www.pilatesandcustomfitness.com/
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Workshop Details:
4 Exercises in 1: Seamless Classes at Any Level
Demystify the work and make it available to every Body
As a Pilates teacher, you are often forced to adapt your instruction to time, limits of the client and to your environment. In this workshop, you will learn multiple variations on Pilates choreography in order to use your teaching time fully as well as provide new opportunities for clients to develop skills. After completing this course your knowledge of the many components available in any one exercise will be significantly expanded so that you will be able to enrich even the most basic routine and keep interest levels up.
Come prepared to engage and move!
1:00- 4:00 pm Conscious Practice, Conscious Teaching
When we train our bodies to obey a set of arbitrary rules about proper form and healthy behaviors, we may realize a certain level of obedience. But what happens when our experiences cease to fit the mold we’ve created for ourselves?
1:00-2:00pm: movement class exploring inner space, how to work deeper within and build ongoing confidence.
2:00-4:00pm: provides the opportunity to spend time exploring your habitual movement patterns and then assessing if those patterns are accommodating or problematic. You will practice active communication with your body in order to foster harmony and cooperation. You will explore how you talk to yourself and explore how to be healthy with in your own nervous system while authentically being present with your students.
It takes curiosity, imagination and rigorous discipline to explore what is happening in the present moment and to then have a dialogue with your body that is non-aggressive. How do you talk to yourself? How you think about and treat yourself is directly related to how you communicate as a teacher.
This experience and the ability you gain to sense, feel and guide yourself into action also helps you grow as a teacher. You will become more relaxed, centered and coordinated while teaching. The more you intentionally practice entering these states yourself, the more they are passed to your students.
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Debora Robinson Kolwey
Licensed Teacher Trainer, TPC—Devoted to teaching, Debora is inspired by how developing a Pilates practice can support us in becoming more fully human and finding deeper satisfaction in life. She has been teaching with The Pilates Center since 1991 and she became a Licensed Teacher Trainer in 1999. In addition to training with The Pilates Center, Debora has trained with Eve Gentry, the original Pilates Institute, Eric Franklin, and Stephan Frease. Before joining The Pilates Center, Debora had her own home studio and created the first Core Dynamics workshops to carry on Eve Gentry’s legacy.