Upcoming Workshops

The Pilates Source® continuing education workshops are for Pilates studio teachers and serious pilates students. Our workshops, seminars, and conferences are extremely beneficial to all pilates instructors from all schools of Pilates who want to gain a deeper knowledge of Joe’s Contrology® and the history of the system. Workshops take place in various locations. Please see individual workshops for specific locations, dates, times, and rates.

Pilates Historics™ Webinar:<br />
The History of The Wunda Chair

Pilates Historics™ Webinar: Women of Contrology

Presenters: Sean P. Gallagher PT, Elaine Ewing, and Cathy Barker Strack


Monday, March 18, 2024 | 6-7:30 pm EST
$30 per person

  • A recording will be available for 7 days.

This historical presentation will focus on a selection of women who paved the way for future generations of pilates teachers. Some of the featured women are well known, and others are lesser known. Included will be exciting, never-before-presented historical findings of primary source documentation about a few special women from Contrology history! Join in for rare photos, archival information, original articles, and fascinating discussion about these women who worked behind the scenes in the earliest years of Contrology. We’re excited for special guest, Cathy Strack- pilates historian and author- to join us.

Pilates Historics™ Webinar:<br />
The History of The Wunda Chair

Pilates Historics™ Webinar: The History of The Baby Chair Webinar

Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing


Monday, April 1, 2024 | 6-7:30 pm EST
$30 per person

  • A recording will be available for 7 days.

Join us for a special webinar about the history of the Baby Arm Chair. What were Joe’s original designs and intentions for this chair? How did Joe’s design change over time, and how does the Baby Chair differ today? 

As usual, we will use primary source evidence to discuss, analyze, and share an incredible amount of rare information about this popular chair. As a special bonus, we will conduct a show and tell using 3 different original Baby Chairs from both Sean Gallagher’s and Elaine Ewing’s collections. These original and archival chairs have never before appeared in a presentation together- and we’re excited to share and compare the three chairs from pilates history.

Classical Pilates Push Up Device Workshop

Classical Pilates Push Up Device Workshop

Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing


Sunday, April 14, 2024 | 10:00 am-4:00 pm (lunch break 12:30-1:30 pm)
$300 per person
Location: 9398th Avenue, Studio2A, New York, NY

Joseph Pilates designed and used a unique set of Push Up Devices that were present in photos of him and his studio for decades. However, this is one of the only apparatus that we do not currently have any further documentation of, or clearly know how Joe used them.

This workshop will explore the classical pilates repertoire available on the Push Up Devices from basic to advanced. We will teach you ways to challenge students of all levels, and how to use the Push Up Bars to practice more advanced exercises on the reformer and mat.

Through progression of foundational alignment exercises and learning about proper grip position and strength, to stability exercises, and finally those with more complex choreography, you will leave with a wide variety of options to take back to your studio clients the next day. 

As an extra special bonus to this fun and challenging workshop, we will have Joe’s actual original Push Up Devices on hand for demonstration and study, as well as you to take photos using them. Incredibly, these Push Up Devices will be returning to the original studio space where they once were kept by Joe himself for decades!

To be part of this historical moment with us.

* This workshop is in-person only. No virtual or recorded option. This workshop takes place in New York City, inside Joseph Pilates’ original studio space (939 8th Avenue, Studio 2A, New York, NY). This is not at Rhinebeck Pilates.

September 30th Workshop: Classical Endings Around the Studio and Case Study

Two Workshops: Classical Endings Around the Studio and Case Study

With Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing

Monday, September 30, 2024 | 10:00 am – 4:00 pm
$300 per person
Location: Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck, NY

This is an in-person workshop. There is not a virtual option.

Workshop 1: Classical Endings Around the Studio

10-12:30pm, 2.5 hours

This fun workshop will cover multiple endings with an emphasis on those with the Cadillac. The Ladder Barrel and Guillotine will also be utilized. From beginner to advanced, we’ll teach and practice the variety of Ending sequences that leave your students energized and inspired.

Some of the equipment used in this workshop was Joe’s original apparatus, such as the 1960’s Cadillac and Ladder Barrel.

Workshop 2: Case Study

1:30-4pm, 2.5 hours

Are you curious about how to use the system when people present to you with issues? Do you want to learn how to address their issues in a safe, pilates way? Whether it be old injuries, new injuries, diseases, or just about anything else, this workshop should help you have a better way of understanding what you can address and what you cannot as a pilates teacher, as well how to start and progress a program with classical pilates.

If you take this workshop, you will be sent a form to fill out about your case study, providing the issues that you find most common amongst your students and would like to be able to address in your sessions with them. From the submitted we will choose a few case studies for the group to learn from in the time allotted.

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