Certified Teachers - Europe

I got introduced to the Pilates Method in 2003 and got certified as a Matwork Teacher in 2004. Since then i continue the Pilates Journey and got certified Pilates Bodymotion Studio and Rehabilitation Trainer, Erwachsenenbildnerin SVEB 1, GYROKINESIS® Certified Trainer, Lolita San Miguel Pilates Master TM Second Generation Pilates Teacher, kathy grant heritage training® and completed my qualification with the CPM bridging programme in 2014 with Karin Locher.

1:1 Sessions on all the apparatus, Matwork & Apparatus Group classes

Movement Mentor, Pilates & Yoga Teacher

Celina dedicates herself to guiding others to explore the space and breath within the body, finding freedom therefore becoming present to the Self. Through an integrated and holistic approach she brings her students to re-find their intuitive movement. She practices yoga and meditation and loves sharing her practice with joy and expertise. Celina had an international dance career. She is a certified dance teacher, a Yoga teacher and a Pilates teacher on all equipment and all levels. (The Pilates Institute and CPM Education, UK.) She managed The Pilates Room in Geneva before opening Namaha. Celina is also a pilates teacher trainer. and runs Return to Life teacher trainings and workshops. Passionate about the magic of the body, she had been studying intensively the connective tissue (Tom Myers Anatomy Trains, Fascial Release Structural Balance training courses, dissection on cadavers 2015). She is trained in BodyTuning by Grand Master Glenn Black. Celina thanks all her teachers and students for their beautiful inspiration and guidance: all her dance teachers, choreographers, and Jean Lechim, Sri Andrei Ram, Eric Baret, Glenn Black, Gerard Arnaud, Karin Locher, Tom Myers, James Earls, Elizabeth Larkam and more… She teaches in French and English.
Explore your breath and your inner space through Pilates, yoga, massages and meditation.

With the back ground as a Physiotherapist I certified the Polestar Mat and Studio Rehabilitation Trainer in 2010.
In 2014 I graduated in CPM with Karin Locher.

1:1 Sessions on all the appartus
Mat- and Reformer Group Classes

Fanny discovered the Pilates method in the early 90’s at the beginning of her dancer career.

Convinced by the efficiency of the method she graduated from Stott Pilates and Swissbody Pilates Academy.In 2012 Fanny met Karin Locher and experiences the new dimension and the deep change that fascia’s nature offers.She graduated from Contrology Pilates Method in 2014.

Dance teacher qualified, she also teaches ballet to children.

Fanny teaches in French and English.

Geneva - Switzerland

Geneva - Switzerland

When she was 13, Hélène knew what she wanted out of life : she wanted to become a dancer! She then left her family to follow a dance and academic training in Paris.

After beeing granted several awards and prizes , including the First Prize at the Paris Conservatoire de Paris, she joined the Youth Ballet of France and carried on her career within the Ballet of the Grand Théâtre de Genève with whom she has danced on the most famous stages worldwide.

Throughout her career, Hélène has always been interested in the human body, movement, well-being, preventative care and rehabilitation therapy. So she naturally turned to the Pilates method, whose efficiency and numerous benefits became immediately apparent to her. She trained and became certified at Swissbody's.

She met Karin Locher in 2013 and realises that she teaches more that a method of muscular strengthening, but that Pilates through a fascial lens , is well beyond straightening the imbalance that life has left on the body.

Daughter of a Brazilian mother and a Swiss father, Isabel is born and raised in Brazil. Since her childhood she is fascinated by the world of dance and the different methods of body-work. Consequently, she decides to make a living of her passion for movement and its instruction.
In 1986, during her studies of "Physical Education and Sports" at the University of Sao Paulo (USP) in Brazil, she starts her career in sports related health & physical activities– first in Brazil then from 1997 in Switzerland – as a Group Fitness Manager, Personal Trainer and Professor of the Health/Fitness education at the Bern University of Applied Sciences/Swiss Federal Institute of Sports Magglingen SFISM.

In 2004 Isabel discovers her passion for Pilates during a workshop in Lausanne. Starting her structured Pilates education in 2005, she certifies in 2013 with Polestar© to become a Pilates Studio Trainer (all Pilates equipment).

During the same year Isabel makes her dream come true and becomes an self-employed Pilates teacher at "Pilateszone". She continues her Pilates education with Karin Locher (www.contrology-pilates-method.com) based on the newest fascia research.

Isabel is CPM certified.

Isabel is teaching in German, English, French and Portuguese.

1:1 and 1:2 Sessions on all the appartus
Mat- and Reformer Group Classes

Certified Polestar Studio Trainer
Certified CPM Teacher

1:1 Sessions on all the apparatus

Born in 1975 to a family of professional dancers, Jasmin started her career in classical ballet and later switched to jazz and modern dance. After completion of the three years training as a gymnastics pedagogue by Dietrich + Piller, she moved to Cairo. There she worked as a personal trainer and dance teacher for children whilst pursuing her education in fitness and nutrition with the ISSA America.

In 2004, she returned to Switzerland and established her company, personalized.ch. Together with Sabine Renz, they launched the immediately successful Pilateszone in 2008. With Joachim Schultz joining a year later, the trainer tandem became a trio.

Jasmin, now a mother of three children, is a Polestar Pilates trainer for Rehabilitation and since 2011 she has worked with Karin Locher

(www.spatialmedicine-cpm.com) based on the newest fascia research.

Jasmin graduated at CPM Education in September 2013 and was a CPM Faculty Teacher until November 2019.

Jasmin is a Pilateszone Partner.

1975 in einer Tänzerfamilie geboren, beginnt Jasmin ihren Weg mit klassischem Ballett und wechselt später zu Jazz und Modern Dance. Nach der dreijährigen Berufsausbildung für Gymnastikpädagogik Dietrich + Piller zieht sie nach Kairo. Dort arbeitet sie als Personal Trainer und Tanzlehrerin für Kinder und setzt ihre Ausbildung im Fitness- sowie Ernährungsbereich mit ISSA Amerika fort.

2004 kehrt sie in die Schweiz zurück und macht sich im folgenden Jahr mit ihrer Firma personalized.ch selbständig. Aus dieser entsteht 2008, zusammen mit Sabine Renz, die sofort erfolgreiche Pilateszone. Ihr Trainer-Tandem wird knapp ein Jahr später mit Joachim Schultz zum Trio.

Jasmin, inzwischen Mutter von drei Kindern, ist Polestar Pilates für Rehabilitation-Trainerin. Seit 2011 arbeitet sie mit Karin Locher zusammen (www.spatialmedicine-cpm.com), nach den neuesten Erkenntnissen aus der Faszienforschung.

Jasmin ist Partner der Pilateszone

1:1 Sessions on all the apparatus

Life is a journey, and it has been ongoing since I last updated my biography 3 years ago. I am still happily married to my husband Sébastien and I am still living in Zurich, working in our practice for bodywork REalEASE.

I am a faculty teacher for Centre for Spatial Medicine CPM education©, an Anatomy Trains structural integrator and a Psych-K© facilitator.

Other things have changed.

I am starting the year 2019 with having been naturalised, so I am Swiss now as much as still owning the German passport.

My body and my attitude to its signals and wisdom keeps changing with everything new I discover, and so do my clients and students.

My approach to bodywork changes with it. It makes my work as a faculty teacher for Centre for Spatial Medicine more challenging and more rewarding.

Every session, every practice hour, every lesson I teach is a journey of joined discovery. I feel grateful for this.

Grateful to the teachers that have put me on and guided me along this path and still are with me on the road.

First and fore-most Karin Locher without whom I probably would have abandoned this path a few years back.

Grateful to the people from Anatomy Trains, who set me on the path of manual bodywork: James Earls, Don Thompson, Lou Benson and Wojciech Cackowski played major parts in this.

Grateful to Sharon Wheeler for all the added impact her workshops have had on my manual work ever since I graduated.

Grateful to April Jones for watching over my body, imparting the wisdom of Eve Gentry into my Pilates work.

Grateful to Brunhild Hoffmann to have put tools into my toolbox that help to change subconscious belief systems through the Psych-K approach.

Through all this it has become my truth, that our body is one way of our subconscious to talk to us.

The exploration of this road will keep me busy for quite some time.

Change is what my experiences have helped me to embrace, and what my working expertise and knowledge enable me to help others find in themselves.

Our body is constantly changing, adapting and renewing itself.

I am grateful to be a faculty teacher for Centre for Spatial Medicine/ CPM education©, an Anatomy Trains structural integrator and a member of the Psych-K© family. All of which allow me to explore my own ways within our common denominators. It’s such an amazing playground to find oneself in.

1:1 training on all apparatus, mat classes

During my studies in exercise and health sciences I got introduced to the Pilates Method. In the following year I certified as a Polestar Mat and Studio Trainer. In 2014 I graduated in CPM with Karin Locher.

1:1 Sessions on all theappartus
Mat- and Reformer Group Classes

Born in 1969 in Tokyo, Japan, at the age of 17 Sabine followed her dream and trained as a teacher for Contemporary and Modern Dance with the “Studio Paris-Centre”.  After an accident causing a discuss hernia she terminated her dancing career to follow a different path, studying journalism and becoming a radio editor and presenter with Radio DRS3.

After several different approaches Sabine finally returned to bodywork through Pilates. In 2008 she turned her back on the media work and launched Pilateszone together with Jasmin Sheta.

Sabine is a Polestar Pilates studio trainer. Since 2011 she has taken further qualifications with Karin Locher (www.contrology-pilates-method.com) based on the newest fascia research.

Sabine is a CPM faculty teacher and a Pilateszone Partner, teaching in German, English and French.

Geboren 1969 in Tokio, Japan. Mit 17 macht Sabine ihren Traum wahr und lässt sich am „Studio Paris-Centre“ zur Tanzlehrerin für Contemporary und Modern Dance ausbilden. Nach einem unfallbedingten Bandscheibenvorfall beendet sie ihre Karriere als Tänzerin und schlägt einen neuen Weg ein. Ein Publizistikstudium legt das Fundament für ihre anschliessende Laufbahn als Radiomoderatorin /-redaktorin bei Radio DRS3. 

Nach verschiedenen Anläufen findet Sabine mit Pilates den Weg zurück zur Körperarbeit. 2008 kehrt sie dem Radio/Medienschaffen vorerst den Rücken zu und hebt mit Jasmin Sheta die Pilateszone aus der Taufe..

Sabine ist Polestar Pilates Trainerin Studio (alle Pilates Geräte) und bildet sich seit 2011 bei Karin Locher (www.contrology-pilates-method.com) nach den neuesten Erkenntnissen aus der Faszienforschung weiter.

Sie unterrichtet in Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch.

Sabine ist CPM Faculty Teacher und Pilateszone Partner.

Certified Polestar Studio Trainer, completedqualification
in 2013 with Karin Locher CPM.

1:1 Sessions on all theappartus
Mat- and Reformer Group Classes

My way to Pilates was typical for a dancer: a back injury. Studying dance in London in the early nineties I first heard about the Pilates method. Back home in Switzerland, after giving birth to twin daughters, I ended up with a disc hernia. I was facing the prospect of having to give up dancing altogether. It was then that I started to train Pilates regularly, as it was the only one of the many „therapies“ I tried that gave me real results. Soon I was able to dance again. After that I became a Pilates teacher myself, completing the training for the Pilates Polestar method. But the two disciplines – dance and Pilates – continued to be separate planets.

During my dance career I also had Rolfing sessions. Therefore, when I saw the first workshops with Karin Locher announced, it immediately drew my attention. It turned out to be one of the key experiences of my life.

After two years of studying with CPM I got to the stage where there was no difference any more between my dance and my Pilates work. CPM fascial training connects science, art, psychology and spirituality. It is real holistic work.

My flamenco dance school exists since 30 years now and during the last year I started to create my own dance training – „DancEgrity“ (from „dance“ and „tensegrity“) – which integrates the knowledge gained from fascia research into dance movements in a creative manner, emphasising body-awareness  and drawing its energy out of the urge to move and the passion for dancing. Thanks to the knowledge gained in the last few years I continue to perform, dance and teach at an age when most dancers are already retired.

1.1 sessions on all apparatus
Mat group classes
DancEgrity classes

My motto is: 'To make the best of your workout.'

Since more than 20 years I have been working in the fitness industry as Versatile training manager for several national schools (FTS, FIF) and international (SAFS, POLAR, REEBOK, BOSU, AIREX BEBALANCED). Graduated in Fitness for the Swiss Confederation, Centre for Spatial Medicine,, Polestar, Balance Body, Ron Fletcher. She specialized with Z-Healt, Anatomy Train I-II; IKFF Kettlebell I; TRX II; Reebok Master Trainer; GyrotonicTeacher; Posturologist Mézières and Bricot.

Creator of the WoodPolePilates Method, BBR Body Ball Relaxing, Hamazon Functional & Mio-Fascia Training. Author of several books and DVDs, her latest creations are F.RE.E: Fascial Real Emotion, a revolutionary method of Neuro-Fascial-Training.

Co-founder of the Functional Training School is the owner of the Ester Albini Pilates Academy

Rimini, Italy

I’ve always been interested in movement, learning and discovering new aspects of life. Passionate about movement, I’m convinced of its impact on the personal well-being of each individual and on many aspects of their lives. It is this passion and the irresistible desire to transmit it that made me turn to teaching, after having worked for 15 years in the tourism, events and administrative fields.

My interest for the Pilates method started ten years ago with my own practice and has never let me go. I completed my first studio comprehensive training with Balanced Body in 2016. At that time, my interest in fascia research and how this new research offers interesting applications for a new perspective on health, rehabilitation and performance enhancement started to grow. I attended the workshop “The body responds” with Karin Locher that was hosted by Celina Hwang in Geneva. From then, it became clear that I wanted to know more, to explore more and to go deeper. I started the Bridging Programme with the Centre for Spatial Medicine led by Karin Locher and learned the original Pilates studio repertoire from a fascial perspective. In 2019, I graduated with CPM. It is not about Pilates or any method, it is about the body, the human and how it is connected. It is about fascia and how this extraordinary body-wide fabric connects us with ourselves and with the world. Working with the body is exciting and requires varied skills and intuition. It requires being aware to the person as a whole, not just physically. I believe that all this will keep me well occupied for a while…

Having worked in different Pilates studios in the French part of Switzerland, I now live and teach in my own studio, opened 2018, in Gstaad.

As an outdoor sports lover and teacher – Nordic Walking and cross-country skiing – I also work as an expert and teacher trainer for the Swiss national programme “Erwachsenensport”.

I teach Pilates in French, German and English, private / semi-private classes on machines and small group Matwork classes, in a personalized and welcoming environment.

I have always been passionate about movement and since 2013 I have been intensely interested in the fascia. I am a fitness teacher and also certified in different LesMills concepts (bodybalance, Sh’Bam, etc.).

In recent years I have turned more to the pilates approach in order to deepen my knowledge about fascia in motion.

The certification Center for Spatial Medicine, fascial fitness training, dissections at the University of Dundee have only increased my desire to know more and more about fascia and movement that I share with great enthusiasm.

Gland, Switzerland

I was born in Basel and also went to school here in Basel.

In 1992 I began my education and training as a physiotherapist and upon completion of this training, I immediately started working with neurological and orthopedic patients in a rehabilitation clinic; sometime after I moved on to work as a manual therapist within a private physiotherapy practice in Basel. In the context of my work as a physiotherapist I discovered my particular interest and fascination for fascia and its relevance in the recovery and rehabilitation of the physical body, and my motivation and drive to assist, train and enable a human being to rediscover a way of life free from physical pain and stress.

Through my subsequent additional training as a Pilates CPM instructor (www.centreforspatialmedicine.com) I was later on in life able to close an important professional learning cycle that today enables me to help my clients to get well, recover and feel fit, by applying a well-rounded, holistic and integrated therapy and training approach. This approach combines my traditional physiotherapy knowledge and skills with my hands-on Pilates knowledge and skills, and applies a long-term and sustainable perspective for the client. My training programmes are consistently tailor-made to the specific needs and desires of each and every client

Geboren in Basel und hier die Schule besucht.

1992 beginne ich die Ausbildung zur Physiotherapeutin und arbeite nach dem Abschluss in einer Rehabilitations Klinik mit neurologischen -und orthopädischen Patienten und später in einer Physiotherapie Praxis in Basel als Manualtherapeutin. Während meiner Arbeit als Physiotherapeutin entdeckte ich die Faszination der Rehabilitation und der Faszien. Menschen so anzuleiten und zu trainieren, dass sie ihren Alltag wieder schmerzfreier, leichter und befreiter erleben können.

Mit meiner Ausbildung zur Pilatestrainerin CPM (www.centreforspatialmedicine.com) hat sich dieser Kreis nun geschlossen und ich kann meine Kunden ganzheitlich betreuen, indem sie durch massgeschneidertes und gezieltes Training langfristig beschwerdefrei bleiben können.

Basel, Switzerland

After the three-year training with Centre for Spatial Medicine in Zurich, Cecilia is now certified to teach myofascial Pilates on the mat and on all Studio equipment. She teaches in German and Italian.

In the spring of 2001, Cecilia was leafing through a newspaper. Her eyes fell on the picture of a strange device. The article accompanying it introduced a still unknown training method: Pilates.

At that time, Cecilia worked in an office and had back tension all the time. So she went to the first Pilates studio in Lugano and arranged a trial lesson on this strange piece of equipment, the Universal Reformer. One trial lesson - and she was hooked! Cecilia began passionately practicing Pilates on the mat and on the equipment. Her posture relaxed and soon the back problems disappeared.

In 2015, Cecilia started having big problems with her back again. He rebelled to the stress and long sitting in the office. An hour of Pilates training once a week was no longer enough for her. So in 2017, she quit her job as an HR professional and trained as a Pilates teacher in contemporary Pilates at art of motion in Bern.

Then Cecilia discovered fascia and myofascial meridians. On her own body, through manual integration and through movement. She was immediately fascinated by this new movement experience and in 2018 decided to train as a Neuromyofascial Pilates teacher at Centre for Spatial Medicine in Zurich.

Pilates Cecilia, Zentralstrasse 77, 8212 Neuhausen am Rheinfall

Veronique Robert is a physical therapist and Pilates and Gyrotonic instructor. Located in Madrid, Spain, she combines manual therapy and private movement classes in her own rehabilitation practice. She was a modern dancer in her youth, and an educator for Polestar Pilates Education for over 15 years. She has studied structural osteopathy, cranial sacral therapy and myofascial release.

I can't help but move.

Who am I?

I am the consequence of my past experiences, and movement has been my primal motto since I was an eleven years old gymnast. Body and soul sail together thru life in an undivisible balanced harmony. Finding that harmony keeps me always curious and Pilates is a perfect tool for exploring

What do I do?

I encourage my clients to explore their options to move better, easier, with less effort but better outcome. In essence, to enjoy movement with greater pleasure.

You can find me at www.pilatesimas.com in Madrid, Spain.

Pilates Instructor, Spatial Medicine certified, Yin Yoga instructor, Sports and Holistic Kinesiology, Chinese medicine and herbal medicine, Franklin Method Educator Level 1 and 2

Theresa first discovered Pilates as she was recovering from a Cancer post-operation. Taking the advice of a nurse, she decided to try Pilates. One private lesson is all it took for her to feel results. It suddenly became the highlight of her week! Pilates helped Theresa to recover faster, grow stronger, and reconnect with her mind and body; it improved the quality of her life. These results inspired Theresa to embark on the career she has today.

In 2018 Theresa started her 3-year Spatial Medicine Training (CFSM) with faculty teacher Joachim Schultz at Re-Alease, in Zürich. Theresa is now a CFSM qualified teacher. She teaches at a fully equipped studio in Schaffhausen, Switzerland where she offers Personalized Trainings, Duet Sessions & Mat in English, German and Spanish.

Theresa believes that as Pilates teachers, we are not just teaching exercises, we are using our expertise to find different avenues to help our clients evolve. Her aim is to help her clients of any age, to gain general body awareness, flexibility and strength, moving in their own fascial body, to be mindfully reconnected and re-stored. Her Pilates Education with an emphasis on Fascia and using the guidance of the 12 Anatomy Trains Lines from Thomas Myers perfectly compliments her lessons. Getting started can be the hard part; you show up and we’ll work together to make the change!

When she is not teaching or learning, she loves to spend time outdoors, walking, cycling, sailing or with her family & friends.

Schaffhausen, Zürich