EHS Pilates

She thrives in a collaborative environment that intersects dance, fitness, health with technology. her goal is to get you to move and feel good in your body! Whether teaching a dance and fitness class or producing health and wellness content, she is passionate about working with people to bring a project or idea to life that will change peoples lives and make the world a better place to live, thrive and be happy in!

• Emotional eating
• Metabolism
• Underlying medical issues
• Male/Female infertility
• Secondary Infertility
• Motivation
• Accountability

About Beth Amabile:

For many years my husband and I struggled to have a child. After a wise acupuncturist asked me to share a diet journal with him, I learned that making changes were imperative- not only to prepare my body for pregnancy but for my overall health, mood, and spirit. This led me on a path to really examine my true health and wellness and discover my passion for aiding others struggling with these issues.

I believe in the potential of everyone and setting your mind to achieving your goals is never simple. Let me be your ally! Without judgment, I can make the journey enjoyable. With my background in Nutrition and Health Coaching, I can guide you towards the lifestyle you desire. I don't believe there is a “one size fits all” approach to optimal health. I look at everyone as an individual and customize their plan accordingly.

I love living in Northern California with my husband, son, and puppy. We balance our active city life in Oakland with the incredible beaches and mountains nearby. Some of my other passions include dining with friends, traveling to new places, and experimenting with my Vitamix.

In 2014, Amy decided to turn her passion for Pilates into a career and has been teaching full-time since then. She is fully certified with Balanced Body University (BBU) and has also trained on Stott. In addition, she is a fully certified member and trainer of the Buff Bones® Pilates community. She has also worked with additional instructors specializing in prenatal, postnatal, and rehabilitation. Amy was always amazed and astounded by the human body, its abilities, its muscle memory, its innate protectiveness. Since she began her training, her interest has only grown.

In her classes and private sessions, Amy strives to bring the magic of movement together with the human experience. She reminds us to move, and to have fun with it! Pilates is about you and your body and its ability to rehabilitate itself whatever age you're at, whatever injuries you've had, whatever you've been through, and whatever life has thrown at you.

In her spare time, away from all things Pilates, she can usually be found baking in the kitchen, out exploring, or, on a rainy day, curled up with a good book.

Prior to deciding to pursue dance & Pilates full-time, Esha was a Patent Litigation Partner at the 1500-attorney law firm of Kirkland & Ellis. She now utilizes her intellectual ability toward thoughtful consideration and understanding of the Pilates repertoire and how it impacts the human body. To this end, she is interested not only in teaching Pilates, but in researching the method as a form of rehabilitation for dance and other sports-related injuries.

Movement is life! Karen is a multi-disciplinary wellness professional and former attorney. She is passionate about the Pilates method and its ability to positively transform body, mind and spirit as means to live a high quality life. Karen completed two comprehensive Pilates trainings at EHS Pilates in San Francisco and Innerstellar in Berkeley. She has completed Levels 1 and 2 Foot & Gait Therapy training at EHS Pilates with Nancy Meyers. She is trained on the CoreAlign and uses it an additional tool to assist clients with gait corrections, balance and functional movement. She is a certified yoga instructor, ACE group fitness instructor and National Association of Sports Medicine personal trainer. She has taught group classes since 2012, including yoga, Pilates, Barre, TRX, Power Plate and boxing conditioning. She privately trains Pilates, Yoga and personal training clients. Karen's teaching objective is for each client to develop their own sense of personal power, fitness, and spiritual well being in order to actively pursue their life passions.

I have degrees in Art History and Design, have at times made a living designing and constructing clothing and dance costumes, and generally enjoy creativity where ever it can be found. Outside of “the studio”, I enjoy traveling, walking “by the water” (here, there, or anywhere!), and an occasional quiet day at home with a skein of good yarn and the lightening flash of a crochet hook.

Within a year Carrie left the corporate world to pursue and her passion for Pilates. She started her Apprentice training in 2011 and, a couple of years later became a fully certified instructor! This was the best choice she has ever made! She's so much happier and healthier now in her 40s than she was in her 20s.

Carrie's students often reach that “ah-ha” moment, where they understand and feel the correct muscle group engaging and it's that moment that they take from their sessions and apply to their daily living patterns, so they may move through life pain-free.

Pilates Assessment Base Certificate of Completion Balanced Body, Inc. Sept. 2013
CoreAlign Training Level 1 & Level 2

• CONTINUING EDUCATION | EHS Pilates, San Francisco, CA
• Foot & Gait Mentorship Nancy Myers's - Level 1 & Level 2 (2016-2017)
• Buff Bones® Teacher Training - Buff Bones® is a medically-endorsed system of movement for bone and joint health
• Upper Quarter Mentorship -- Shannon McMurchy (2017)
• Osteoporosis 101 -- (2017)
• Dynamic Group Instruction Mentorship - Ruthie Walhborg (2016)
• Strength, Ease and Balance in the Shoulder Girdle & Neck w/ the Franklin Method - Tom McCook
• Anatomy w/ Clay, Shoulder Girdle/Joint - Dallas Everleth
• Chris Black Mentorship - Level 1 & Level 2 - (2015 & 2016)
• Pilates on the CoreAlign Workshop - Nancy Myers (2014)
• Yoga/Pilates Teacher Training - Levels 1 & 2 - Miranda Dalton (2014)
• Pilates for Pregnancy Teacher Training - Stephanie Forester (2014)
• Anatomy & Biomechanics of the Foot & Lower Leg w/ Clay - Bethany Clemen (2013)
• Deep Core Cueing - Chris Black (2013)

PMA Certified Instructor

Nancy has been a movement practitioner for over 25 years. Her injuries due to teaching dance and running were rehabilitated with Pilates at St. Francis Dance Medicine Center with Elizabeth Larkam in 1989.

In 2000, she certified with Ellie Herman Studios in San Francisco. Nancy has extensive knowledge in anatomy and kinesiology, and she has dedicated her Pilates career to an emphasis on posture and gait analysis and how it applies to the Pilates work. Nancy has experience teaching all types of fitness populations including dancers, professional athletes, pre and post natal, senior citizens, and clients with injuries and special issues. It is her belief that functional movement is the key to pain relief through better body mechanics.

Over the years Nancy has studied with 1st and 2nd generation Pilates teachers that have inspired and deepened her understanding of the system. In addition, the work of Vladmir Janda, Thomas Myers, Sherry Brourman, Eric Franklin and other masters have influenced and inspired her perspective on how she approaches her practice.

She is inspired and learns everyday from the bodies she encounters and is grateful to be able to follow her passion to make a difference in a person's life with every step they take within the inspirational atmosphere that is EHS Pilates.

Nancy is also a consultant for MBT shoes, a certified personal trainer and group exercise director. She has a BS in International Business and masters in Holistic Nutrition. Her Foot and Gait Mentorship program is underway at EHS and she constantly teaches internationally, both teacher trainings and continuing education workshops. She has been interviewed and written about several times in the San Francisco Chronicle.

Nancy's current projects include authoring “Fabulous Feet”, and “Pilates on the CoreAlign”.

Merits
Co-owner and CEO of EHS Pilates, Inc.
PMA Certified Senior Pilates Trainer with special focus on Gait Therapy
Director of EHS Pilates Institute
Faculty member of Balanced Body University
CoreAlign Master Instructor
MBT Trainer/Educator
Director of EHS Pilates Institute's International Teacher Training Program
EHS Retreats
Specialties
Postural alignment
Essential Posture and Gait patterning
Foot problems
Pilates-based rehabilitation

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