Amy Taylor Alpers, co-founder of The Pilates Center with sister Rachel Taylor Segel, will be sharing The Pilates Center’s mission to heal the world through Pilates this March in Dubai.
“I truly believe the answer to creating world peace lies in healing people’s wholeness, so they feel empowered, pain-free, and able to achieve their true potential. That’s what Pilates has taught me and that’s my personal mission.”
It’s this kind of experience and wisdom that Amy Taylor Alpers will be sharing with Pilates teachers and students in Dubai as they learn to move and be inspired by Pilates.
“There’s value in enabling people to heal themselves with this amazing movement form. I can honestly say Pilates is the most rewarding career in every way possible. It gave me a career, helped me attain and maintain my health, and gave me a mission in life—to help heal people with Pilates and to create world peace. The future is one of endless possibilities for Pilates.”
From March 15-18th, you’ll be able to find Amy Taylor Alpers at the Jeanique Pilates, Emirates Golf Club in Dubai, where she will be teaching intermediate, advanced, semi-private, and private classes as well as leading workshops including the following:
- One Size Does Not Fit All
The variations in the human body’s design are more diverse and complicated than we think. Together, we’ll see how Pilates helps ‘uniformly develop’ the body and bring it into ideal balance and alignment so we can move with efficiency and effectiveness.
- Dealing with Complaints
When teaching Pilates, we are often met with clients who require additional help with specific issues that can be outside our comfort zone and even our scope of practice. It’s important to remember that our main task is to utilize the exercises Joseph Pilates designed, to the best of our abilities, to help people achieve optimal overall health.
- Accessing Your Psoas: Creating True Integrated Movement
Joseph Pilates designed every movement to involve the ‘whole body’ and to connect it in its entirety to and from its core/center/powerhouse. We will develop visual assessment skills to determine whether a movement is coming from ‘the center’ and how to correct it if not. Moving from our center in a whole-body integrated way is how we work to achieve ultimate power and health potential through Pilates.
- Footwork the Fortune Teller
Footwork reveals nearly every issue a person is experiencing. Teachers can learn to teach effective, efficient, and functional movement patterns, especially during equipment or Matwork exercises, by learning to see and understand what Footwork is saying and to correct problems from happening from the start.
- Practical Anatomy for Pilates Teachers
This workshop will explore human anatomy in a practical, user-friendly, and movement-based way to benefit Pilates teachers wanting to learn more. If we want to help our clients move toward Uniform Development, a key Pilates principle, then we need to understand how the body works in real-time so we can teach with confidence.
Learn more about the classes and workshops Amy Taylor Alpers will be teaching in Dubai this March. In fact, you can now follow along as she travels the world to teach Pilates since The Pilates Center is home to studios worldwide. You can find a TPC-trained teacher on almost every continent, and our community of teachers and studios is growing every day.
Following the classes in Dubai, Amy will be flying to India, teaching workshops at Pilates for Wellbeing in Bangalore. Find out more about Amy’s schedule in India, March 20-25.
About The Pilates Center
The Pilates Center was founded in Boulder in 1990 by sisters Amy Taylor Alpers and Rachel Taylor Segel. The sisters trained under Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates’ protégé and inheritor of his NYC studio. Amy and Rachel have worked to foster the legacy and tradition of the original, classical method of Pilates while also incorporating a humanistic approach to meet every individual’s needs. For over 30 years, they have made it their mission to heal the world by empowering people to transform their health and Return to Life through Pilates.