Ickes and her daughter at BurbankLeader.com

Our semi-regular roundup of Pilates news from around the Web.

• California’s Burbank Leader caught up with Dawn-Marie Ickes, who’s going international with her Pilates for children workshop. A physical therapist and PMA board member, Ickes initially launched a program to teach Pilates in area elementary schools. Resources grew thin but she didn’t get discouraged; she created the workshop.


• Former competitors the American Council on Exercise (ACE) and IDEA Health and Fitness Association announced a new, long-term partnership last month. They’ve kicked things off with some co-branded video-on-demand continuing education courses (CECs).

• re:AB’s Brook Siler ranted about uncomfortable airline seats in the Huffington Post and offered up easy stretches to combat stiffness.


• Scottsdale, Ariz., studio owner  Miranda Armenta, of MIRA Pilates challenged two people to a 60-day Pilates regimen. She wanted to see what came after Joe Pilates’ old adage, “In 10 sessions, you will feel the difference, in 20, you will see the difference, and in 30, you will be on your way to having a whole new body.” Click here to see the results.


• BOSU® tapped Erika Quest, owner of Studio Q in Laguna Beach, Calif., as its 2010 ‘Pilates Specialist.’  She’ll be developing content and exercises for a workshop and DVD.


• What better way to honor your city than with a Pilates calendar? New Orleans studio owner Alyce Morgan Wise teamed up with documentary photographer Alice “Dallas” McNamara to shoot ‘Spontaneous Zest and Pleasure: A Pilates Calendar,’ featuring shots of Pilates moves performed in some of NOLA’s most colorful and unexpected spots.