There are faster ways to earn a certification.

But if you're going to invest your time, energy and money into becoming a movement professional or enhancing your current skillset, I believe your education should prepare you for more than passing an exam or memorizing a repertoire of exercises.

It should prepare you for the real people who will walk through your door.

Bodies with different histories. Different limitations. Different movement patterns. Different goals.

Clients who don't feel an exercise where they're "supposed to."

Clients who compensate, grip or struggle to connect with their deep core.

Clients who need you to recognize when to strengthen, when to create mobility, when to change the movement—and when to simply change the way you're cueing it.

That's where deeper education matters. 

Through the Core Athletica® Method, you'll develop principles and a way of looking at the body that you can carry with you throughout your career.

You'll learn to observe more closely, ask better questions, understand whole-body connections and make more confident decisions about the movement you're teaching.

Because the goal isn't simply to leave with more exercises in your toolbox.

It's to leave understanding the body differently.

So as your clients change, your career evolves and your own knowledge continues to grow, you'll have a foundation that allows you to keep learning, adapting and becoming a better instructor.

You're not just earning a certification. You're developing the skills to become the kind of movement professional people trust with their bodies.

• Become the instructor who understands why he/she's teaching what he/she's teaching.
• The instructor who notices the small things.
• The instructor who can adapt instead of simply following a sequence.
• The instructor who understands that the body doesn't move as a collection of isolated muscles—but as an interconnected system.
• And the instructor whose education continues to influence the way she teaches for years to come.

For more than 20 years, I've been studying, teaching and continually evolving the way I look at the body and movement.

I'm a movement educator, Core Exercise Specialist, certified Pilates instructor, personal trainer, pre/postnatal exercise specialist and Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner—but some of my greatest education has come from the thousands of women I've had the opportunity to teach over the years.

Because real bodies don't always move the way a textbook says they should.

That's what has continued to shape the Core Athletica® Method and the way I train instructors today.

I Want to Teach You How to See the Body Differently.

Early in my career, I learned anatomy much like everyone else—muscles, origins, insertions and individual actions.

But the longer I taught, the more I realized that looking at muscles in isolation wasn't enough.

I became fascinated by fascia, whole-body movement, the deep core + pelvic floor, breath, posture, mobility and the subtle compensations that can completely change how someone moves.

I began connecting the dots.

And it changed the way I taught + the results I was able to get my clients!

Today, the Core Athletica® Method brings together my decades of experience in Pilates, functional strength, fascia-based movement, deep core + pelvic floor function, breath, mobility, posture and pre/postnatal movement to help instructors understand the body as an interconnected system.  

Throughout my career, I've had the opportunity to:

• Teach Pilates and movement for more than two decades
• Work with women through pregnancy, postpartum, pelvic floor challenges, back pain, injuries, athletic goals, perimenopause and beyond
• Create the Core Athletica® Method and Core Athletica® Pilates Studio
• Create Core Rehab, Core Studio and Knocked-Up Fitness®
• Educate movement professionals around the world
• Host the Core Connections Podcast
• Develop instructor education rooted in both the science and the real-world application of movement
• Speak/Present on many Podcasts, Summits, and Conferences

But when I teach instructors, my goal isn't to create instructors who teach exactly like me.

My goal is to teach you how to think.

I want you to understand the principles deeply enough that you can walk into a session, see the person standing in front of you and confidently begin asking:

• What am I seeing?
• Why might her body be moving this way?
• What does she need from me today?

And how can I use movement to help her become stronger, move better and continue doing the things she loves?

That's the instructor I want to help you become.

Not someone who simply knows more exercises—but a movement professional who understands how to connect the dots.