Edited by Barbara Bonacini, Studio Metapilates Reggio Emilia
How it all started ...
His story began 21 years ago, when he was a professional dancer and choreographer of his own dance company in San Francisco. Following an injury, she learned about the pilates technique at the Dance medicine Hospital in San Francisco, where she ventured to heal herself with this mysterious discipline called Pilates. He was fortunate to be under the care of Elizabeth Larkham, who later became a professional Pilates teacher. After months of rehabilitation with Pilates and without surgery (usually advisable after an anterior cruciate ligament rupture), she returned to dance to then realize that, to her surprise, she was a better dancer than in the period before the injury. In fact, not only had Pilates allowed her to jump back and forth, but she had actually improved her technique, control, balance and strength.
Ellie moved to New York City, where she briefly attended a Master's degree in dance at New York University. The best thing about his short stay at New York University was a free Pilates class with Kathy Grant, a disciple of Joseph Pilates. This experience led her to pursue the training of Pilates teachers with Steve Giordano and teacher teacher Kyranowska Romana, popularizers of Joseph Pilates.
The following year he opened his own studio in the San Francisco Mission neighborhood, and opened a second studio in Oakland, California, in 2001. He received a Master of Science degree in Acupuncture and Chinese Herbal Medicine in 2001.
As part of his interest in Pilates, he developed a new way to train: Pilates Springboard Pilates, an inexpensive and space-saving variant, now produced by Balanced Body.
