Joane's Pilates path began in the eighties, when her sister gave her a Pilates instructor book by from an Australian Pilates teacher, when Joane was in her Yoga Stage of Study.  From it, she learned the basics.  Many years later, she certified on the GTS Gravity Machine.  This GTS teaching system had Pilates, Strength, Stretch, Flexibility, Core and more.  

Joane eventually fused all these together into one class.  Not as a rebellion, but in the same spirit Joseph Pilates himself showed when he drew boxing, wrestling, yoga and Greek calisthenics into one method.  The original structure is what gives Pilates its healing power,  and she stays true to it while flowing thru the class.  

She went on to train and certify on the Pilates Reformer through the National Exercise Trainers Association, and has absorbed 15 years of their material. She studied New York style Pilates with Tanya, covering reformer, mat, cadillac, tower, and chair.  Many Workshops with the Pilates Conservatory deepened her grasp of alignment , concepts, and apparatus work with balls and bar.  Her teaching settled into full classical Pilates, order, precision, flow.  

She then taught at a yacht club that's teaching program was guided by a teacher devoted to back health and that called for creative adaptation and deepened her practiced and teaching style further.  Later, a former student opened a studio Joane helped him get it started and taught introductory classes there, focused on making Pilates accessible to everyone.  With her previous Personal Training, Yoga and Qigong Certifications and experience,  she found herself assembling it all once more.  Integrating it all into one class.  The result is something unique: classes where young and old, advanced and newcomer, move together.  Through her energy awarenesses developed after years of teaching and energy cultivation, she walks the room offering very obvious corrections to the students who really need them - while staying strict about certain fundamentals that protect back health she provides a fun, safe place to explore body, mind and spirit among others experiencing the same personal awareness and transformation.  

Whether you are a teacher, brand new or returning to the practice - check out trainings and classes with Joane.... because the best way to understand Pilates for everyone is where everyone is welcome and everyone is interested in developing their own personal power and much needed awareness of their body, mind and spirit(breath) and soul for self development and transformation.  

We love helpful, loving students that want to grow, glow and flow together.  Her class.  develops a healthy spine, control, balance, integration, awareness, strength, flexibility, focus, create body art, self love, fun and much more!