For Individuals
Wellness, pain-relief, fitness, balance…We use a variety of techniques, tailored to your unique situation, to help you not just lessen or minimize pain, but to give you the tools you need to live a healthier, pain-free life.
Individual sessions for pain relief, improving alignment, improving core strength, working with spine, back, hip, and shoulder issues, pre-and post- rehabilitation for joint replacements and surgeries, education and empowerment to understand and manage your body in an effective way so you can enjoy doing the things you love to do.
Group classes are carefully designed to be safe for people that are living with osteopenia/porosis, osteoarthritis, stenosis, herniated or degenerated discs or joints, spondylosis/spondylolysis/spondylolisthesis, scoliosis, spinal fusion, sciatica, sacroiliac joint dysfunction, hip joint replacements and other conditions.
Classes are safe places to explore movement, learn more about your body in an experiential way and become stronger.
Group classes include pre-recorded Spine-Safe© Pilates Mat available here and Osteo-Reformer™ inquire here.
For Teachers
Gwen blends Pilates, yoga, personal training, corrective exercise kinesiology and Hendrickson Method Orthopedic Manual Therapy into a specialty she coined as Integrated Therapy. Gwen’s expertise as a holistic problem-solver is informed by 25 years’ experience, guided by deep empathy and intuition.
Teacher Training is both for student teachers of the Pilates Method and continuing education for certified teachers of movement, including Personal Training, Group Exercise, Yoga, and Pilates.
Student teachers and Pilates teacher trainees participate in the Balanced Body® Pilates Education Program, which is organized in affordable, conveniently-paced modules. For Gwen’s current Pilates teacher training schedule inquire here: [email contact form]
Continuing Education: Join me for Safe Movement for All Spines: Foundations or the Mentorship. Join my mailing list to stay in the loop about virtual and in-person workshops.
Mentoring is multi-faceted and starts with Gwen’s accessibility to her students. Every student has her private cell number, and she is available for questions on an informal basis, either by text or email. Private 1:1 meetings can be scheduled to address bigger questions, prepare for auditions or test-outs, advice regarding specific client cases (including for established teachers needing extra information for special cases), marketing questions and career goals.
Assessment and IntakeMentoring with your client is available in person. For this option, you and your client schedule a 90-minute appointment with Gwen, and both attend the session. Gwen’s holistic problem-solving skills ensure that teachers walk away with actionable strategies and clients better understand their bodies and movement potential. This option is ideal for complex client cases.
Group Mentoring is available by drop-in access to THREE zoom meetings per month, as part of the Safe Movement for All Spines Mentorship.
Teacher Mentoring continues with Gwen’s unique audit program. Once a student has successfully completed a Safe Movement for All Spines: Live! Workshop or a Balanced Body® Pilates Education module, they may apply to return and audit that same class as a teacher assistant. This gives teachers the opportunity to review, deepen their learning, hone teaching skills, receive individualized coaching within the context of the module and in many cases, earn student teaching hours toward their required hours for completion. This also ensures that students Bridging into Pilates training from other programs gain Gwen’s expertise and outlook on modules previously completed elsewhere.
Gwen’s goal is to do her best to train excellent teachers who are able to discern which movements are most effective for their students, are empowered to find their own voices, and carry forward her legacy of safe and effective movement instruction.