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.
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Browse our library of Pilates Historics™ Webinars, spanning decades of Pilates history. Through our webinars, we share tireless Pilates history research on topics such as Pilates apparatus history, archival Pilates, Joseph Pilates, Clara Pilates, the Pilates Elders, and more. As often as possible, we conduct live show and tells with archival, original, and vintage Pilates apparatus in our combined collection. View the Pilates Historics™ Webinars here.
Pilates Archival Magic Circle™ Workshop
Presented by Sean Gallagher & Elaine Ewing
Sunday, May 17, 2026
11-3pm
$300 per person
Location:
939 8th Avenue, Studio 2A
New York, NY
This is an in-person workshop only. There are no virtual options. This workshop is open to advanced students and teachers. There is a no-cancellation, no refund policy on this workshop.
Workshop Description:
Joe Pilates archived the use of multiple exercises using a circular apparatus he designed as part of his system, known today as The Magic Circle.
Over decades, he documented its use with his students as the models, on film, photographs, in articles, and as equipment.
In this workshop we focus on providing you an in-depth study and practice highlighting Joe’s original exercises with the Magic Circle.
We will also incorporate Lost Exercises Joe designed for the Tensometer, which was an apparatus with similar biomechanics and functions to the Magic Circle.
You’ll leave with an in-depth understanding of an archival repertoire that you can teach to your students from beginner to advanced- that you learned while actually practicing inside the original pilates studio at 939 8th Avenue!
As an extra bonus, we will have a time line of magic circles on display, and conduct a live, historical show and tell. Included in the time line we will have what is currently known as the oldest Magic Circle to exist today, a Magic Circle from the early 1970s, and other Magic Circles that have been made since then.
Pilates Source® Supplementary Apparatus Workshop
Presented by Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing
Sunday, November 15, 2026
12-6pm
$450 per person
This is an in-person workshop only. There are no virtual or recording options, as Romana wanted. This workshop is open to advanced students and teachers. This is open to any comprehensively trained teacher from any school or program. There is a no-cancellation, no refund policy on this workshop.
Workshop Description:
This continuing education workshop will focus on apparatus not commonly taught in training programs, but help provide within the system an ability to address functional deficiencies that can be found within the bodies in front of us:
- The Baby Chair
- The Magic Squares (Neck Stretcher, Toe Corrector, and Hand Tensometer)
- The Foot Corrector
Throughout the workshop, we will focus on how Joe Pilates originally used each of these apparatus with his students, and how it was continued to be used and passed down in the classical Pilates system.
We will also have the opportunity to use and learn more about the original and archival apparatus of each of these pieces of equipment, from the combined collection of Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing. This includes 2 original Baby Chairs, as well as the original chair Joe invented that this apparatus was developed from. Original Neck Stretchers and Toe Correctors, and the original Foot Corrector. Throughout the workshop, these original pieces will inform our practice, and provide deeper insight into how we practice today with classically produced equipment.