Defy Gravity—The IntenSion of Suspension

Amy Taylor Alpers

Saturday and Sunday 10/01/11 and 10/02/11
Saturday 12 Noon through 7PM (with a 1 hour lunch break)

Vital Balance Pilates
Redondo Beach CA USA

description

Haven't you ever dreamed of flying—of floating in air with that weightless feeling of freedom and release from gravity? Pilates can make that feeling possible. It is the anti-gravity system, designed very intentionally to organize your body so wisely and naturally that you literally feel lighter and truly do defy gravity longer. However, it's often taught from a more careful, slightly fear–based approach of stabilizing or holding parts of the body to prevent movement, especially in the case of injury. Instead, we can learn to teach from the natural truth that enabling and supporting movement through the amazing suspension system we all have in our own bodies is actually what heals. Utilizing the profound natural laws of movement, we can learn to teach a client how to move—not stabilize—n a suspension field of amazing bones, cables and fluids to develop the strongest, lightest, most powerful body possible. The geometry of energy.

Don't miss the opportunity to hear this exceptional teacher and co-founder of The Pilates Center. Vital Balance Pilates is a licensed studio to this renowned school, known as "the Harvard of Teacher Training". Please note, Amy will not be presenting at the PMA this fall so be sure to come get your fill, this October.

instructor biography

Amy Taylor Alpers was born in Youngstown, Ohio. She began classical ballet in her childhood, studied dance in college, danced professionally and later taught ballet.

Amy attended The Juilliard School for Dance, danced with the Garden State Ballet in New Jersey, and received a B.A. in Dance and a M.A. in Dance History from New York University. In addition, Amy taught ballet at various dance schools in New York City for ten years.

Both Amy and her sister Rachel studied Pilates under the direct tutelage of Romana Kryzanowska at The Pilates Studio. They received their Pilates teaching certificate in July of 1989. In 1990, after moving to Boulder, Colorado, Amy and Rachel opened The Pilates Center. The sisters established The Pilates Center Teacher Training Program in 1991. Since the mid-nineties, Amy has traveled the world teaching graduate level continuing education workshops.

The sisters co-authored The Everything Pilates Book, are active in the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) and assisted in creating the PMA's certification exam.

12 hours PMA, ACE, and TPC CECs and TPC Masters

fees and hours

Full workshop—$500
One day only—$300

lessons and classes

(available on Friday, Saturday morning and Monday morning)

All fees US dollars

Vital Balance Pilates
403 N Pacific Coast Hwy, Suite 203
Redondo Beach, CA 90277

www.vitalbalancepilates.com
vitalbalancepilates@verizon.net
Contact Samantha Walley: 310-379-4281