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Kathryn Holliday - Instructor

Kathryn Holliday has completed the extensive training with Romana’s Pilates at True Pilates New York and was certified as a Level 5 instructor in 2010. She is currently teaching in both Brooklyn, New York, and Washington, DC. Kathryn first practiced Pilates while still a finance professional in Washington. Her initial intent was to strengthen her core and enhance a fitness swimming regimen. She became a devotee, finding improved posture, flexibility and reduced shoulder and back discomfort; long hours at meetings and at the computer took far less a toll. In addition, the practice provided increased body awareness and recalled the pleasure of long past dance classes. After a variety of instructors and techniques, Kathryn began classes with Fidel Garcia and discovered the discipline and benefits of Romana’s Pilates. Given the opportunity to spend time in New York City for both professional and family reasons, Kathryn entered the training program at True Pilates and its community of brilliant, dedicated teachers of classical Pilates. She in particular benefited from the oversight of Sari Mejia Santos, the mentoring of Cynthia Shipley and the teaching of Sari, Cynthia, Jerome, Victoria, Ilaria, Carrie and others. Kathryn continues her classes with Cynthia and Victoria for her own physical practice and to develop further as a teacher. She is delighted to have found a second discipline and professional community, to have shared the learning process with a set of like-minded apprentices and to be able to pass on the benefits of the practice with clients at Capital Pilates. After finishing her advanced written exam for certification, Kathryn noted that “I didn’t spend this long writing field exams for my PhD”!

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In 1992 Fidel E García finished his studies as a Professional Dancer and as a Ballet Teacher at the National Ballet School in Camaguey City, Cuba. Since then Fidel has been teaching ballet in Mexico, Washington and New York, as well as other cities in the world and dancing as a Principal/Soloist with Dance Theater of Harlem, The Washington Ballet, Ballet NY, Ballet de Camaguey in Cuba, in Peru and Mexico. In 2006 he started to study Pilates in New York City in the school with the most recognized name in the Pilates world: Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates’ “Protege and Muse”). He studied...

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First exposed to Pilates in high school, Brittany Laeger found the extensive benefit of Pilates for strengthening and centering her body: at first, with her mother (a certified Pilates Instructor – The Pilates Center, Boulder, CO) as cross-training for her classical ballet training, and later as part of a three-year recovery from a career-ending incident that included two major surgeries.

When she moved to Washington D.C. for a job in Public Relations, she soon discovered that her body was not used to all the hours sitting at a desk. This created more issues to work through....

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Aurelie Bidart began her career by following a curriculum — Study Dance — at the Nice (FR) Area National Conservatory where she won first prize in contemporary dance. She obtained her contemporary dance teacher status degree in Paris and followed the training “Development of the Dancer” at the national choreographic center of Montpellier directed by Mathilde Monnier. She also supported the profession of dance artists in various European companies. A few years after becoming a dance teacher, she discovered Pilates. Seduced by this method and the benefits it provides it, she decided to teach...

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