Please note:
- July 9th, 2024 sub: Kayla White
- July 16th, 2024 sub: Kayla White
- July 30th, 2024 sub: Kayla White
Johanna’s Pilates teaching incorporates her work in dance, somatic practices, and strength training. She combines these practices with traditional and other styles of Pilates. She uses these various approaches as tools to work with a wide range of bodies from dancers to people recovering from injuries. She is interested in helping clients to understand their body mechanics, as well as looking for ways to deepen and challenge their physical experience. She works from micro to macro movements helping clients to experience the anatomy of joint release and subtle connections of the limbs to torso, while refining alignment and allowing the body to regroup.
In class, we take time to center ourselves with props and through breathing. Then we get to moving and into more physical work offered in Pilates. I focus on a part of the body or concept each week and corral the exercises, integrating that part with the rest of the body. I tell student they are welcome to skip any exercise that creates strain or pain, but ask that they try to stick out exercises that are hard. I expect students to take care of themselves in class and promote agency over their own bodies.
Accessibility Notes
- This class includes auditive guidance.
- For access information about Gibney’s facilities refer to their website.
To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, Johanna Meyer” at least three (3) weeks prior to the date you plan to attend.
For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “Johanna Meyer.”
