Entries in Pilates for Pink (2)
A Pilates for Pink Collaboration
By Lauren Charlip
Not only is Pilates for Pink a way to raise money for a great cause, but it has given two Los Angeles studio owners—with studios mere blocks away from each other—a reason to come together and put a new spin on the program.
Maria Leone and Shari Berkowitz both own studios with teacher-training programs, a rare occurence in any neighborhood. Leone owns Bodyline, a PhysicalMind Institute certification studio, and Berkowitz owns The Vertical Workshop, and directs Power Pilates’ West Coast teacher-training program. Together they’re putting on programming for Pilates teachers that will raise money for the Breast Cancer Research Foundation through Pilates for Pink this Sunday, October 18.
Each will be teaching a professionals-only mat class at Bodyline (which will also sponsor its own Pilates for Pink class for clients). Leone, ruminating on how she’d make her third year as a Pilates for Pink host different, came up with the idea of having a guest teacher.
Lauren Charlip
in Business Ideas, Career Development, Instructor/Studio Profiles, Maria Leone, PhysicalMind Institute, Pilates for Pink, Power Pilates, Shari Berkowitz
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Pilates for Pink '09
October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month, and Shape magazine and The Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) are again inviting the Pilates industry to support the cause with their Pilates for Pink initiative.
Like last year, studios and fitness facilities nationwide can sign up to host classes. If you’re interested, e-mail Shape, stand by for your “Pilates for Pink” kit, which includes promotional materials and sign-up/pledge forms, and then host away. Don’t forget to wear pink! Check out the Pilates for Pink site for information about how to get involved or to find participating classes/studios.
And if you can make it to the Big Apple on Sunday, Oct. 4, Shape and the BCRF are hosting “Pilates in the Park” in New York City’s Union Square, with a full day of classes from an array of top instructors. You can check all of that out here. A $25 donation lands you one class and a mat, along with admission to all tents and a host of product samples and giveaways. For each additional class, you’ll donate $5. Last year’s event sold out two weeks in advance so more classes were added this year.
Shape is also offering a new 2009 Pilates for Pink Core Challenge DVD along with 2008’s Shape Mari Winsor Pilates for Pink DVD; a percentage of the proceeds of both benefits BCRF.
Lauren Charlip
in News/Research, Pilates for Pink, Shape magazine, breast cancer
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