equipment studio teachers
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Aud Aasbo
Aud studied ballet at the Opera Ballet School, Oslo before continuing her dance training at the Laban Centre in London. She worked as a freelance dancer in London before training as a Pilates instructor with Moira Stott (Toronto) and the Pilates Foundation UK. Aud is also a certified instructor of Gyrotonic® and Skinner Releasing Technique. Her teaching aims to increase the individual’s body awareness through the use of the Pilates Technique, creating well aligned freer and more efficient movement. -
Charles Abbott
As an athlete in his teens, Charles underwent the traditional regime of running and weight training. His later introduction to Pilates, as the result of an injury, was a discovery of a radically different way of working that he found much better attuned to the needs of the body.
He went on to study with Karen Smith (Body Control Pilates) and Anne-Marie Zulkahari, with whom he completed the rigorous 2-year Pilates Foundation Comprehensive Pilates teacher training.
With experience at a prestigious Harley Street physiotherapy practice, Charles has a keen interest in Pilates for postural problems and rehabilitation from injury and surgery. He has worked extensively with clients recovering from hip replacement. Passionate about Pilates, Charles believes it is an ideal way to keep fit, supple, strong and prevent injury. His Pilates classes encompass all ability levels and he welcomes working with any client – no matter how stiff, weak, flexible or strong. -
Charlie Snitcher
Charlie comes from a dance background. She was first introduced to Pilates when she suffered stress injuries and the Pilates method became the tool to re-educate her body to move more efficiently. Charlie teaches in a way that her students learn to enjoy Pilates by using the mind and body as one. She helps each individual develop and condition their body to become flexible and strong. Her areas of interest are: Pre and Postnatal Pilates, Injury Rehabilitation and Sports Performance. She is a member of the Pilates Foundation and is also qualified as a Sports and Remedial Massage therapist. -
Emily Applegate
Emily moved to London from Australia in 2002. She studied Myotherapy in Melbourne and worked in various clinics and sporting clubs (including an Australian Rules football club) treating musculoskeletal injures and providing corrective exercise training. An avid lover of all things health and fitness and personal fan of Pilates after using it to help herself with long term lower back dysfunction she studied to be a Pilates teacher through the Pilates Foundation UK. She specialises in using Pilates in a rehabilitative quality (especially relating to back injures) but also loves to challenge fit and healthy clients to get the most out of their bodies.
Emily's teaching focuses on using the pilates principles to achieve better balance and creating a body that works to the best of its ability. She has a musckuloskeletal therapy background so uses pilates based corrective exercises to realign, re-balance and re-train muscles and joint structures. She is also a runner and keen fitness fanatic so enjoys challenging clients (within their limits) and prove that pilates can provide a physically demanding class in a safe, effective and efficient way. -
Gizella Zampetis
Gizella has been passionate about dance since she was four years old and trained at the University of Culture, St Petersburg. As a result of an injury she came to London to study and become a Pilates teacher. Gizella discovered how to protect the body from over-stretching and was able to can dance again without pain. In turn, she enjoys teaching other people how to strengthen and protect their bodies so that they too can have more freedom of movement in their own lives. -
Jan Timms
Jan trained first as a dancer, and then later as an actor at The Central School of Speech and Drama. Always interested in movement and the body, she has practiced yoga in various forms for 15 years and is also a qualified massage therapist. After happening upon Pilates at her local gym, Jan felt inspired from the first lesson and found that her persistent lower back and knee pain disappeared. When it came to looking for an alternative career to acting, the passion she had developed for Pilates made it the obvious choice. She completed her Pilates Foundation Matwork qualification with Allison Swan in 2004 and then went onto train with Dominique Jansen at Pilates off the Square, becoming a fully qualified studio instructor in 2010.
Jan’s teaching focuses on posture and ergonomics. Having spent some time over the years in a desk based job, she knows first hand the benefits Pilates has on the effects of a sedentary lifestyle. Her aim is to bring each client greater postural awareness, more strength and flexibility, and to help them to reach their full potential. Jan is also especially interested in working with pre and post-natal clients. -
Jo Summers
Jo first discovered the Pilates technique in 2000, while managing ongoing chronic back pain that she had suffered since her early teens. After a few months of regular Pilates classes the back spasms stopped. Jo was transformed by this revelatory experience, after so many years of agony. This gave her a real inspiration to learn to teach the Pilates technique and she has never looked back since.
Jo studied and successfully completed her teacher training with Anne Marie Zulkahari and Hana Jones , two of the founding members of the Pilates Foundation UK. She has been teaching at triyoga, since 2004.
Jo now continues to run, ski, ride and sail passionately, combining her sharp eye for detail and precision of movement, with a love of these sporting activities. Her understanding of personal rehabilitation allows her to create effective personal programs for each of her clients. -
Kara Dressel
Kara has enjoyed practicing Pilates for the past 10 years having personally experienced its transformative strength. She appreciates the effectiveness of Pilates in relation to her own rehabilitation and general well-being. Kara was certified by the Pilates Foundation UK in 2002 and worked with Anne-Marie Zulkahari at Pilates and Yoga Movement in London. She moved to New York where she continued learning a different style of Pilates which enhances the way she teaches.
She has enjoyed working with clients to enhance their fitness levels and help them recover from various injuries. Kara also has experience and special interest in working with pre and postnatal clients and women recovering from breast cancer. -
Maika Klaukien
Maika Klaukien has a dance background (BA + MA) and has been teaching since the age of 16. She qualified with the Pilates Foundation in 2003 (matwork and equipment) and has since specialised in rehabilitation from injury, working closely alongside Physiotherapists. Maika's main aim is to make Pilates understandable and functional for everyday activities. She will introduce the method as a way to enjoy moving with ease, flow and breath, while maintaining centre control and precision. -
Mei Clarke (Chapman)
Mei's fascination with the body and mind has taken her from ballet training to a Psychology degree, and a sporadic yoga practice of some 5 years. She discovered Pilates in 1997 after a back injury, and in 2001 started her teacher training with Anne-Marie Zulkahari, one of the first teachers to bring Pilates to the UK. She is now in her 6th year of teaching at Triyoga, and still gets bowled over at watching the Pilates technique transform peoples' bodies and lives. For 2009/10, Mei will be helping Anne-Marie train a new generation of Pilates teachers.
Mei's teaching aims to bring each client a greater awareness of their individual movement habits and to remodel any faulty patterns. -
Monica Argenton
Monica, originally from Italy, moved to London over 10 years ago to start her professional dance training at London Contemporary Dance School , where she was first introduced to Pilates. She found the system helped her to meet the demands of her professional dance training and cope with injuries. She has been practising Pilates since and trained as a comprehensive Pilates teacher (Apparatus and Mat) at the Training Centre for Pilates Excellence with Anne-Marie Zulkahari.
In her teaching, Monica combines love for movement with precision and attention for details. Her classes are dynamic at all levels whilst still introducing functional Pilates concepts useful in every day life. -
Paola Raffinetti
Paola, originally from South Africa, started doing Pilates classes when studying dance in Pretoria 10 years ago. Pilates aided her recovery from a knee injury and also improved her overall performance as a dancer. She then went on to become a Pilates teacher while completing her degree in Dance Teaching. Paola moved to London in 2006. She wanted to further her knowledge as a Pilates Teacher and studied at the Training Centre for Pilates Excellence with Anne-Marie Zulkahari who she still continues to do class with. Her goal in teaching is to use Pilates in such a way that it promotes functional movement for everyday activities with the use of flow by encouraging self-awareness and understanding of their unique body. Paola has a particular interest in rehabilitation and is fascinated how Pilates can assist recovery.
Paola teaches with attention to detail which helps retrain muscle imbalances and incorrect or inefficient movement patterns. The exercises given are tailored to suit your needs and objectives. She encourages clients to listen to their bodies by developing an awareness of what their body can achieve within its own uniqueness. -
Phil Bishop
Phil has been a practitioner of Sports Massage for 8 years. He is also the only triyoga therapist who combines his massage practice with Pilates instruction. The Pilates sessions allows Phil to identify and work on specific postural issues that are often the underlying cause of muscular complaints, and then tailor the follow-up Sports Massages to treat the specific problems.
Phil's target is to lead to economy of movement for every client through identifying and working on changing habitual body patterns. -
Rosy Sanders
Rosy is a former professional dancer and choreographer who worked on both sides of the atlantic in the worlds of theatre, dance, film and tv. She first studied pilates in the early 70s when it was introduced to England by Alan Herdman at the London School Of Contemporary Dance. She returned to it fulltime much later when severe osteoarthritis necessitated hip surgery and found Pilates to be paramount both pre and post op in maintaining strength and mobility. Rosy’s focus is the enjoyment of movement whilst paying attention to alignment, breath and the balance between strength and flexibility, which result in a fluidity and ease of movement. She believes in giving as much individual attention as possible, even in a group situation, and her teaching style benefits from her many years of experience and study in the worlds of dance, yoga, traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts, as well as pilates and alexander technique. Rosy enjoys working with people of all ages and abilities. -
Tairisis Da Costa
Tairisis worked as a contemporary dancer in Brazil before injury lead her to discover the Pilates method. With her physiotherapist she began to train others to balance the strength and flexibility of their bodies to prevent injury. In London she continued her training and qualified with the Pilates Foundation UK. She loves to combine her vast knowledge of dance and teaching experience with her great understanding, love and passion for Body Movement into her high energy Pilates classes.
Her keen eye helps her to cultivate awareness in her clients, allowing them to focus on the details of their bodies in motion. -
Winona Holl
Winona's passion for working with the body has been a lifelong journey: from practicing various forms of dance since childhood, to studying physical anthropology at the University of California Berkeley, and later working in the midwifery community there. While living in New Zealand 10 years ago, she discovered the transformative power of the Pilates method when regular practice alleviated her chronic back pain. In 2005 Winona began study in London under master teacher Hana Jones, and later, Anne-Marie Zulkahari. She is fully qualified through the Pilates Foundation UK to teach Pilates matwork and apparatus.
Winona's holistic approach builds upon a strong classical training. Trusting the innate wisdom, power and balance of the body, while focusing on the breath, establishes the mind-body connection necessary to shift long-standing body imbalances and develop full body health. Winona is thrilled to work with clients of every age and physical ability, and loves discovering how applications of the method can facilitate meaningful change in the bodies and lives of her clients. -
Yalckun Abdurehim
Yalckun studied ballet at the age of 11. After coming to London in 1991 he studied Ballet and Contemporary dance at the Central School of Ballet. Further research and study with Merce Cunningham took him to New York in 1997. He has taught dance at Xinjiang Arts Institute and was a lecturer on Beijing Dance academy's post graduate course 1989-1991. He danced with various dance companies around the world. Yalckun is a founder member of Shoreditch Pilates and Gyrotonic Studio London and Pilates studio at the Royal Garden Hotel in Kensington. He is fully qualified by Pilates Foundation UK and continues his on going study with master trainer Ann-Marie Zulkahari. In 2009 he was invited to teach on teacher training course at Ann-Marie Zulkahari Pilates Studio.
Yalckun's teaching concentrates on precision and dynamic flow of movement which relates to his dance background of more than 20 years.
