Maureen
Maureen is Bridge Trained, and a Comprehensively Certified Pilates Instructor through the Club Pilates Teacher Training Program. She is a former dancer, avid Pilates practitioner and enthusiastic coach. She has a Master of Fine Arts degree in Choreography and Somatic Studies as well as numerous movement certifications. Decades of embodied awareness follow her into the Club Pilates studio. Experiential knowing obtained through traditional dance techniques as well as a host of body mind modalities, including those initiated by exceptional somatic masters, F. Matthias Alexander, Moshe Feldenkrais, Irmgard Bartenieff, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Mary Whitehouse and Joseph H. Pilates inform her understanding of the living, breathing, moving Self and the essential underpinnings of the Club Pilates integrated movement practice. Maureen has earned certifications in Laban movement analysis as well as various fitness formats including yoga and Pilates. She has been certified through Idea, AFAA, ACE, Cooper Institute, YogaFit, PhysicalMind Institute for Pilates and the Club Pilates Bridge program.
Throughout her career Maureen has mentored both professional dancers and athletes, as well as aspiring neophytes encouraging them on their journeys to discover their full potential as they embody their best effort and strive toward their peak performance goals. Maureen has experience coaching skaters and gymnasts as well as weekend warriors and people living with health conditions that include arthritis, osteoporosis, scoliosis, fibromyalgia, M.S. and M.D., so she recognizes the many vital talents and diverse challenges that make up the natural proclivities unique individuals possess, including the many personal goals and aspirations they bring into the Pilates studio. In her personal practice and pedagogy Maureen continues to explore possible ways to integrate theoretical foundations with practical applications. Maureen believes theory without practice is meaningless, however, practice founded on enlightened theory is technically superior, more efficient and effective. Working intelligently will lead to the reward of positive results, enabling one to reap the fruits of one’s labor and the full benefits of one’s concentrated efforts.
Maureen’s Pilates practice and pedagogy is founded on both the anatomy and biophysics underpinning movement principles as well as her personal philosophy of wellness, grounded in the belief that studying and practicing a somatic movement method like Pilates is the essence of a healthy lifestyle, instrumental to sensations of well being and happiness. Maureen strives to teach the joy of movement through an integrated Pilates practice not only to nurture supple fit bodies, but, to instill a sentiency of freedom, to empower longevity and to foster greater intuitively sensed subjective awareness and well being.