Pilates
Restore your Core®
&Mobility
Pilates
I don't teach Pilates by the book — I teach it for your body, your history, and where you are right now.
After 20+ years of teaching, I've worked with bodies at every stage: post-natal recovery, chronic back pain, desk-worker posture, aging joints, and everything in between. What I've learned is that no two bodies are the same, and no session should be either.
Pilates, for me, is a tool — alongside mobility work, strength training and Restore Your Core® — to help you move with more ease, less pain, and genuine confidence in what your body can do.
If you've been told to "just do Pilates" without anyone actually looking at you — this is where that changes.
Restore Your Core®
RYC® is a whole-body approach to healing the pelvic floor and diastasis recti. There's no one-size-fits-all solution here, and spot treatment alone is never the answer.
In RYC® we go deeper — learning how your body moves, where it holds back, and why. Drawing from Pilates, Yoga and Natural Movement, we uncover the movement patterns that may be worsening prolapse or diastasis symptoms, and address the compensations that have built up over time. The goal: a core that is truly functional and responsive.
Mobility
Another name for mobility training could be functional flexibility: flexibility that gives you more movement options: being able to touch your toes, reach that glass that is high up on the shelf, getting up off the floor without moaning and groaning. Also reactivity: stumbling and not falling down, but moving on.
Mobility is anti-aging work to help you stay active as you get older, maintaining your strength, flexibility and reflexes.
About Anna...
About Anna
I grew up dancing modern dance and ballet and performed professionally in Toronto, New York and Chicago. It was during my studies at Purchase College, SUNY that I came across Pilates, initially to recover from a lower back injury. The practice stayed with me.
When I moved to Amsterdam I worked at several studios : Studio Annamora, The Movement Practice and Smartbody Studio. I spent 16 years as master trainer and assistant director of the Smartbody Studio Teacher Training Program.
These days I teach private sessions combining Pilates, strength and mobility training, and specialist work in pelvic floor and diastasis rehabilitation. I'm interested in how people move, why certain things aren't working, and finding the approach that actually fits the person in front of me.
Certifications & Training
Foundations Body Balance LTD · Heritage Training with Cara Reeser · BASI Probridge · Svaha Yoga 500hr · Mobility & Strength — Movement Based Athletics (Erwin Maaswinkel & Virgil Spier)
Fitness & Rehabilitation Restore Your Core® · Functional Range Conditioning® · BOSU
Continuing Education
Pilates for Diastasis & Pelvic Floor Dysfunction — Carolyne Anthony · Pilates for Menopause — Carolyne Anthony · Pilates Through Pregnancy — Ashley Steele (BASI) · Pilates for Injuries & Pathologies — Samantha Wood (BASI)
Masterclasses & Workshops
Kathi Ross-Nash · Cara Reeser · Sagrario Castilla · Elizabeth Larkam · Rachel Taylor Segal · Amy Taylor Alpers · Deborah Kolwey · Tom McCook · Kirk Smith · Sharon Gallagher · Ido Portal · Fighting Monkey
Fitness/Rehabilitation
Restore Your Core® · Functional Range Conditioning® · BOSU®