Back when The Pilates Center opened its doors in 1990, there was so much possibility and opportunity as there really was no Pilates landscape then. Boulder was the perfect location for sisters and founders, Amy and Rachel, to open up the studio. They were getting ready to start a new chapter in their lives, and this was an adventure they wanted to embark on together.
The Pilates Center Mentoring Program is a unique and personal opportunity for professional Pilates instructors to study with second generation Master Teachers and The Pilates Center owners, Rachel Taylor Segel and Amy Taylor Alpers. Mentoring is also available with senior instructor Debora Kolwey.
The Mentoring Program is not a certification program nor is it standardized training. Rather, it is an advancement in skills and a strengthening of philosophy that is deeply personal to those being mentored.
2015 Winter Conference
Classical Treasures: Pilates Then and Now
Schedule:
Wednesday 2/4:
9:00 am – 10:00 am – Foot Corrector Clinic with Rachel
10:00 pm – 12:00 pm – Reformer on the Mat with April
1:00 pm – 8:00 pm – The Gentry Work: Then and Now with Debora
Thursday 2/5:
9:00 am –
During “Lectures Week”, on September 16 & 17, Kelly Smith is conducting a workshop at our studio in Boulder called Finding the Fundamentals. It will be a two day event, on Tuesday and Wednesday, from 3:30 to 6:30 on both evenings.
“How can we use the fundamentals to assess healthy movement? We may know that we want something different from an exercise,
Our world renowned Teacher Training Program and Formal Lecture Series are now online! Since we launched our Teacher Training Program, we have made an effort to reach as many people as possible. Our mission to heal the world through Pilates, means training other teachers to help us empower people to transform their health and “Return to Life”.
For many years students enrolled in our training program were required to travel to Boulder to complete lectures,
Host Advisor Meeting
As a Host Advisor for our teacher training program you play a vital role in advising and supporting our trainees through iTPC, our new online teacher training program, and making it successful for the trainee. Your commitment of building a stronger community through movement, mentoring and health is imperative to the long term success of the world understanding the positive effects of the Pilates method. … Read more
“A great teacher is more interested in what the student has to say than what she has to say.
Mentoring is about reflecting back.
Once you are drawn to finding a teacher you are closer than you might realize to uncovering your own answers.
You are opening yourself to being worked with, like soil that has been prepared for planting.
Aliyah Hardy first took her aptitude for engineering to Exxon Mobil and then used the business knowledge she gained there to start a company where she works on “the most intelligent, amazing structure that has ever been designed” — the human body.
Rachel Taylor Segel, Amy Taylor Alpers, and Kelli Burkhalter Hutchins give an in depth overview of The Pilates Center’s Teacher Training Program on Pilates Anytime. Amy and Rachel discuss how they started teaching Pilates and why they decided to start a training program.
These three amigos modeled their Colorado hoodies at The Pilates Center during Lectures this past weekend. Looking good Liz, Lesley and Brian!