We're excited to be one of Milwaukee's leading centers for Pilates education for movement professionals and practitioners from all walks of life & levels of practice. Please contact us to talk more about any of our varied education courses & events.
2024:
-Private Pilates lessons & Cranial Sessions & available Friday May 17th-
Kim’s workshops will be both offered in-person in the studio & we will also offer a virtual option. Please specify which option (In-person or virtual) when reserving your spot. An invoice will be sent upon registration.
The forgotten exercises
Friday May 17th
3-6pm
$150
In this 3 hour workshop, Kim will share some of the “forgotten” or rarely taught exercises from the Bendel’s era of Kathy Grant’s career.
We will explore these exercises and try them on for size. Kathy’s repertoire is not only so unique, but layered with nuances, and the teaching of her work requires a depth of understanding and enormous patience, which these days, is harder and harder to relax into. Mostly, we will be tasting the genius behind this legendary teacher and master, and see how we can incorporate some of these exercises to help clients today.
The magic of springs
Saturday May 18th
9am-4pm
$250
During her time as Kathy Grant’s assistant, Kathy directly transmitted these forgotten teachings to Kim and has asked Kim to carry this work forth so that it not be lost.
In this workshop we will explore a forgotten aspect of Pilates - the proper use of springs. We will discover how a true relationship with the springs will bring about core strength and freedom from extraneous tension.
Too often we struggle against the equipment, the challenge of the exercise and our own habitual patterns. We will look at how the improper use of springs serves to hinder us, impede the flow of the exercise and at times can even distort our relationship to the work and to our clients.
Through correctly relating with the springs, we will discover how to dance with the equipment - allowing ourselves to be partnered by the equipment to effortlessly brings forth the exercise, connect immediately into core, correct patterns from injuries and imbalances, including scoliosis, and further reflect and support intrinsic health. This understanding will deepen our relationship to Pilates and can have far reaching effects on our relationships with ourselves and our world.
A New Approach to Pilates: Intro to Understanding the Autonomic Nervous System’s Role in Pilates
Sunday May 19th
9am-4pm
$250
In this workshop we will explore the autonomic nervous system and its relationship to Pilates exercises.
Learn to read your client’s body and their state of being through the map of the nervous system. Some clients progress easily, and others appear to be held in the same patterns for prolonged periods of time. Often these structural imbalances are rooted in nervous system dis-regulation.
Through developing a basic understanding of the three branches of the autonomic nervous system, you will learn to recognize key signs of activation: hyper and hypo arousal as well understand the relatively newly discovered third branch of the nervous system, the Social Engagement System. Learn how to work with these different states to better serve your clients.
We will also be studying the effects of car accidents on the nervous system and subsequent boundary ruptures. Become aware of how and where you stand as you teach,and how you partner a client may be helping or impeding their progress after an accident.
About Kim
Kim Haroche is a second generation, Master Pilates Teacher. She began her exploration of Pilates in her late teens under the loving and firm hands of Kathy Grant who personally mentored Kim and invited her to be her assistant and substitute teacher. Kim has the great honor of being one of the only people Kathy ever trained in the art of teaching the intricacies of her work as well as the classical Pilates method. One of the main gifts Kathy passed on to Kim was a deep sense of integrity in teaching the method and relating personally and sensitively to each client.
Kim has been teaching Pilates for decades – her teaching credits include Kathy Grant’s Gym at Henri Bendel in New York City and The Pilates Center in Boulder where she was on staff as a Senior Teacher, Presenter and Tester of The Pilates Center Training Program and Masters Program.
She now guest teaches and offers workshops at different studios internationally as well as a Professional Advanced Training in Nervous System Regulation and Trauma as it relates to Pilates. She enjoys spending time in Nepal, India and Boulder, Colorado. She maintains a private therapy practice combining biodynamic cranial sacral therapy, trauma therapy, body centered psychotherapy, as well as couples therapy based on the PACT method. She continues to teach Pilates teachers out of her home studio in Boulder as well as internationally.