It is my personal goal to bring my favorite quote of Joe’s to life by guiding my students toward ‘naturally, easily, and satisfactorily performing our many and varied daily tasks with spontaneous zest and pleasure.’ What better way to live than with spontaneous zest and pleasure?!!”
Kristen began her study of Pilates in 1993 to alleviate chronic pain from two car accidents. She trained in the PhysicalMind Method then attended the Pilates Teacher Training Intensive at the San Francisco Ellie Herman Studios in 2000. She owned Resilience Pilates Studio for four years before joining forces with Chantill to create Pilates Collective. Kristen is passionate about her continuing exploration of Pilates and has studied with four of the Pilates elders who were taught directly by Joseph and Clara Pilates.
Kristen creates an individualized Pilates program to address the needs of each of her clients. She is especially excited about integrating the Pilates work into everyday movement such as walking.
Kristen has received training in Walkilates with Ellie Herman and Nancy Myers, Rehabilitative Pilates with Lizz Roman, Pilates for Osteoporosis with Sherri Betz, PT, Pilates for Golf with Sarah Christensen and the fabulous new CoreAlign with Jonathan Hoffman, PT, she is proud to be a member of the Balanced Body University Faculty. Kristen’s background is in performing and directing musical theatre and voiceover and she strives to help movement teachers create Dynamic Presence to inspire their students.
She is the creator of the Dynamic Presence curriculum developed to help teacher’s enhance their ability to transmit their true talents into potent, powerful and authentic teaching whether for an individual student or large groups. Her skills in improvisation and directing inform her ability to draw teachers into a more confident relationship with their work and their clients. For more information on Dynamic Presence click here.
How are you showing up? Why are you showing up? Why do you teach? What IS teaching? Why do you care? This is Skillful Teaching: A Whole-person approach to being an expert teacher, not an expert technician. There's a difference. Want to know what it is?
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