EHS Pilates

PMA Certified Instructor

Nancy has been a movement practitioner for over 35 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.

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.

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

Master Instructor with Balanced Body 
CoreAlign Master Instructor
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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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)

Stephanie Forster is the founder of Preggo Pilates, a Balanced Body Master Trainer and the Director of Pre and Postnatal Education at EHS Pilates in San Francisco.  She brings over 25 years experience as a Pilates practitioner, dancer, body worker, anatomy and yoga student to her teaching, which is infused with irreverence and humor. Her first hand knowledge of pregnancy, birth, Mamahood and deep connection to birthing professionals make her a natural at serving pre and postnatal women. Stephanie is passionate about working with women struggling with diastasis recti (split abdominals), prolapse and pelvic floor dysfunctions.  She is currently getting certified as an Integrated Women’s Health Coach.  Since 2008 she has been a member of the Mamas Resource Network, an eclectic Bay Area network of professionals who serve, support and educate pregnant and postpartum women and their families. When she's not teaching Pilates, Stephanie enjoys biking throughout San Francisco, dancing outdoors, hiking, reading long mystery novels, geeking out on the pelvic floor and spending time with her two teenage children, her husband and their beloved menagerie of three cats and a dog.  

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.

A fifteen year resident of the Bay Area, Olivia has been teaching Pilates for 3 years and completed her Comprehensive Certification in 2019 through Balanced Body University at EHS Pilates. Olivia came to Pilates after experiencing debilitating sciatic pain while working on her B.A. in Dance from San Francisco State University. Pilates was so instrumental in her healing, she wanted to learn more and more, and share what she has learned with others. 

In Olivia’s work as a Pilates instructor, she has sought to empower bodies on a journey of self-healing. Through careful observation of the body, Olivia works to facilitate discovery through movement, breath, and attention so that clients may develop an understanding of where in their bodies they are strong and where they need to develop more strength. She strives to bring an awareness to clients of what movement patterns they may have developed that no longer serve them, and works with them to create new, functional movement patterns. 

Olivia has experience teaching beginning, intermediate and advanced level group classes and private sessions, rehab clients, pre- and post-natal clients, and seniors. She is a participant of the Foot and Gait Mentorship program with  Nancy Myers. 

In addition to Pilates, Olivia’s movement practice includes dance, yoga, and swimming. A 20+ year veteran of the restaurant industry, Olivia is passionate about food and cooking. In her free time, she loves exploring the many beautiful regional parks of the SF Bay with her dog, Toby.

About Julia

In leg casts and braces from birth until age two due to a congenital orthopedic condition, Julia Griffiths has been aware as long as she can remember of her body and how great it feels to overcome physical limitations through practice and training. After playing high school sports and swimming competitively, Julia found Pilates at her local gym and has been practicing for the past 20 years. As an instructor, she wants to help more people feel good and experience functional well-being through Pilates, so they can enjoy the other things they love to do.

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!

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.

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