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: The Books from Joe’s Original Library
Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing
Monday, July 29, 2024 | 6:00-7:30 pm EST
$30 per person
- A recording will be available for 7 days. No recording extensions are available.
- Please use Elaine’s zoom meeting room for this slide show presentation and discussion.
Join us as we peruse several original books from Joseph Pilates’ library.
This webinar will offer a unique glimpse inside the pages of some of the books Joe kept on his shelves. We will look at not only what Joe was reading- but also his personal apostils and drolleries as well as the passages he underlined.
Through primary source evidence we will see what sentences and paragraphs inside these books that Joe thought were important. What does Joe’s original marginalia have to teach us about his ideas, his influences, and the origins of his method?
Thanks to Sean Gallagher’s preservation of these rare and special books from within Sean Gallagher’s Pilates Archives®, we are able to provide this extra special opportunity for pilates history enthusiasts to learn from Joe’s private book collection.
As an extra special bonus, Sean will conduct and live show and tell with selected books from Joe’s library.
In-Studio Workshop
The Romana Tapes™: The Hip
Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing
Sunday, August 4, 2024 | 12:00-5:00 pm EST
$250 per person
In-person workshop, Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck, NY
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the previous Romana Tapes workshop on the shoulder. The next workshop is on the hip.
Workshop info: Are you curious about how Romana really taught? Interested in learning how she told stories, gave examples and instructed how to teach? Want to add to your teaching skills her actual cues and hands on techniques?
We will be watching film footage of approximately 2 hours of Romana teaching this workshop from the early 1990’s. We will then spend 3 hours of using, analyzing and practicing her cueing and hands on techniques. During the workshop we will watch, then practice, then watch more and practice more for better integration of the material.
How to attend: Email Sean at spgpt@pilates-studio-ny.com and he will send you the information to sign up and pay through PayPal.
Pilates at The Pillow® Fall 2024
Featuring: The Pilates Archival Reformer with Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing
September 27-29, 2024
Pilates at The Pillow Fall 2024 will offer the widest variety of archival and classical Universal Reformers together in one room to ever take place in pilates history. Thanks to Sean and Elaine’s combined extensive collection of reformers, workshops during the conference will utilize up to 20 different reformers, spanning the decades of the 1930s, 1980’s, 1990s, and early 2000s.
These will include an original clawfoot reformer from Sean Gallagher’s Pilates Museum/Studio, vintage Gratz reformers from the 80s and 90s, vintage Gratz folding reformers, and more recent Gratz reformers of lengths varying between 80, 86, and 89 inches, in both aluminum and wood. We are thrilled to offer this in-depth learning experience to attendees!
Are you interested in learning how Romana taught? Are you interested in her hands on cueing? Learn it here from the source. Do you live in or within driving distance to Rhinebeck NY?
This workshop will be 2 hours of watching Romana teach a workshop on the upper back and shoulder (recorded in 1990 at 2121 Broadway studio) and then 2 hours of practicing her hands on cueing and teachings techniques.
If you’re interested in attending, please email Sean Gallagher at spgpt@pilates-studio-ny.com, and he will then send you the information to sign up and pay through PayPal. Once registered and paid there will be no-cancellation/no refunds policy due to limited number of spaces available.
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.