The Pilates Diaries Podcast

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. In this episode, we're joined by Cheryl Burgess and Ava Rodriguez. Cheryl and Ava together are heading up the team that is bringing The Pilates Expo to life in Sydney in May this year so I can't wait to hear all about what they've both got in store for us in this episode. Cheryl is managing director of Pilates Reformers Australia, ToeSox Austr...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Cie’Jai Zarb - Founder and Editor-in-Chief of The Pilates Journal . Cie’Jai has always been a passionate advocate for functional fitness and movement and first completed her Pilates training in Sydney through Polestar Pilates. Cie’Jai recognized her passion for the Pilates Method wasn't going to be satisfied by just teaching...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Bridget Garlick. Bridget is a professional horse rider, horse trainer and riding coach based in Lismore NSW.  Being the daughter of long-term Pilates teacher Kimberley Garlick, Bridget has grown up with Pilates as much as she has with riding horses, so brings unique insights and application of the Pilates Method into the equestri...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Melissa Turnock. Melissa is a long term Pilates teacher from Sydney's Northern Beaches. Melissa was originally a speech pathologist, but since discovering Pilates in the mid nineties to overcome a debilitating back injury related to scoliosis, trained to become a teacher, and then co-founded Spring Pilates in North Sydney. M...

Welcome to the seventh episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earl...

Welcome to the sixth episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earlie...

Welcome to the fourth episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earli...

Welcome to the fifth episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earlie...

Welcome to the second episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earli...

Welcome to the third episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earlie...

Welcome to the first episode of this special short season of The Pilates Diaries Podcast created to support and promote the rebuilding of the business of industry colleague and long term Pilates teacher, Kimberley Garlick. Kimberley's studio business, Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore was completely submerged in the devastating floods that tore through the region in February and March earlie...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Anthony Lett. Anthony is a long-term Pilates teacher with a fascinating array of interests across philosophy, evolutionary biology, exercise and health, body work, Buddhism, stress, and physiology. Anthony is extremely well-traveled delivering his highly sought after education programs across the globe. He's the author of a...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Jen Findlow from the Eastern suburbs of Melbourne.  Jen is a Pilates teacher and Somatic Movement Therapist. The mission of this podcast is to share the stories of the impact of Pilates to help you live and move with more joy, physical vitality, and renewed vigor. Pilates was a somewhat unknown word until it started creeping into...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. On this episode we're joined by Lisa Westlake. Lisa is a Physiotherapist and fitness leader and is the Owner and Director of Physical Best. Lisa was inducted into the Fitness Industry Roll of Honor in 2017, after being awarded Australian Fitness Leader of the Year in 2000, Fitness Presenter of the Year in 2003 and Author of the Year for the Fitness Indu...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Ramona Peoples from London in the UK. Ramona is the founder of Body Orchestra and works across a range of modalities from Pilates, Myo-fascial bodywork, Scarwork Therapy, Yoga, Structural Integration, Somatic Movement Education, and holds a Masters of Science in Dance Science from Laban in London. The mission of this podcast is t...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Krystal Weir. Krystal is a world champion sailor and a two time Olympian from Beijing in 2008 and London in 2012. Krystal first discovered Pilates after stress fractures in her spine set her on the path to Pilates as part of her rehabilitation, and then continue on into Sports Science, Physiotherapy, Pilates training, and then mo...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Sandra Lauffenburger.  Sandra is a somatic therapist with a long movement history and runs a psychodynamic and somatic psychotherapy practice in Canberra.  Sandra was a founding council of the APMA- the Australian Pilates Method Association,  and co-authored the curriculum used at the University of Technology Sydney for training...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest on this episode is Sarah Callaham.  Sarah is the owner of The Body Method studios on the Gold Coast in Queensland arriving there after her early journeys across North America and the stint in Hawaii.  Along with Pilates, Sarah is also an experienced instructor of yoga and  Stand Up Paddle Boarding and brings a range of life experiences into her tea...

Welcome to the Pilates Diaries Podcast. Our guest in this episode is  Darren Vizer from  Mr. Pilates in Melbourne The mission of this podcast is to share the stories of the impact of Pilates to help you live and move with more joy, physical vitality, and renewed vigor. Pilates was a somewhat unknown word until it started creeping into conversation somewhere around the 2000s- maybe even before then...

On this episode we are joined by Siri Dharma from Big Bear, California. Siri is  a transformation teacher with a strong training and a long background in  Yoga and Pilates techniques. After basing her business in Beverly Hills, and  a successful career teaching Hollywood movie stars, she makes her home in the high mountains of  Big Bear Lake, where  students visit her from all over the world. Siri...

On this episode we are joined by Katrina Edwards from Aligned For Life Pilates and National Pilates Training in Melbourne. Katrina has an extensive background in Pilates starting her journey in 1988 when training at the Australian Ballet School. Katrina opened her first Pilates Studio in Melbourne in 2000, and now consults to the Australian Ballet School, the Melbourne City Football Club and previ...

Our guest in this episode is Miriam Jones from Motion and Repose in Melbourne.  Miriam is a passionate mentor and teacher trainer of the next generation of Pilates instructors and runs a small home studio in Melbourne's northern suburbs.  [01:23] Miriam elaborates on her background as a dancer who graduated, left Melbourne to see the world and got hooked on yoga and Pilates in Scotland. She d...

In this episode we're joined by Joakim Valsigner - founder of Bälans Pilates Studio in Perth, Scotland.  Joakim has been teaching Pilates since 2004, having trained with the Pilates Foundation and Body Control Pilates in the UK before completing the two-year Pilates Master Mentor Program with Lolita San Miguel, and then becoming an Educator with the Lolita's Legacy™ Program. 02:02 Joakim...

Our guest in this episode is Kimberley Garlick - a long-term teacher, experienced educator with Polestar Pilates Australia, the founder of The Pilates Room Wellness Package, and owner of Northern Rivers Pilates in Lismore in northern New South Wales. [01:18] Kimberley began as a ballet dancer, transitioned into fitness industry and studied Human Movement. Her interest was piqued with early teachin...

Our guest on this episode is Richmond Heath, a long time Physiotherapist and Pilates teacher based in outer-eastern Melbourne, and coordinator of TRE Australia. [01:20] Richmond describes his career choices and his body started to let him down.  After Aboriginal studies, suicide prevention, meditation and Bowen therapy work he began teaching Pilates. [03:22] Richmond worked at an “exercise factory...