The Pilates Center

The Pilates Center The Pilates Center is an internationally renowned studio providing the best in classical Pilates! We offer private lessons and group classes.

Two sisters, Amy Taylor Alpers and Rachel Taylor Segel, trained under Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates' protege and inheritor of his studio in NYC. In 1990 the sisters founded their studio, The Pilates Center in Boulder and created their Teacher Training Program with Romana in 1991. They have strived to foster the legacy and tradition of the original, classical method of Pilates and continue to develop the highest caliber of teachers, with the most comprehensive and in-depth classical teacher program available. Our goal at TPC is not just to teach you how to do Pilates but how to heal people with Pilates. Our commitment is to health. It’s our mission to heal the world by helping people heal themselves with Pilates - that was Joseph Pilates’ ultimate desire. Almost anyone who wants to can learn how to be a Pilates Instructor. You can get a certification over a weekend! We believe this is merely the starting point and does little to truly allow the instructor to assess each client’s unique needs and provide them with the life changing possibilities Pilates so powerfully offers – the potential to truly heal and, thereby, “return to life.”

True teaching requires a profound level of both deeper knowledge of the subject matter and a calling to truly care for the unique nature of each client’s personal journey back to full mind-body-spirit health. And that is the approach we embrace when teaching our clients and training our future teachers through our various Teacher Training Programs.

The more of the method you know, the more choices you have as a teacher.Levels can help us organize and understand the w...
09/11/2026

The more of the method you know, the more choices you have as a teacher.

Levels can help us organize and understand the work. But Pilates was never meant to become a set of boundaries around what we can teach or when we can teach it.

When we know the full system, we can see beyond the rules and respond to the person standing in front of us. Sometimes that means returning to something foundational. Sometimes it means discovering that an exercise further along in the work reveals exactly what has been missing.

That’s the forest.

In Classical Method Studies Part II, we’re moving into Levels III–V while continuing to ask how all of this work belongs together as one method.

There’s still time to join us in Boulder or on Zoom, September 30–October 4.

Sign up for CMS through the link in our bio.

09/08/2026

What if the thing changing the whole exercise isn’t the exercise at all?

In this clip from Amy Taylor Alpers’ Can You See the Forest? series, Amy looks beyond simply “straightening the knee” and into what is actually creating that action.

The arch. The heel. The calf. The shin. The relationship of the tibia to the talus. How the support travels up into the abdominals instead of dropping down into the knee.

Because when we only look at the shape we’re trying to make, it’s easy to miss the larger organization underneath it.

And sometimes, changing one relationship changes pretty much everything that comes after it.

This is where the details start to change the bigger picture.

Join Amy this fall for September Immersion, September 16–19, or continue into the full method at Classical Method Studies Part 2, September 30–October 4, as we move through Levels III–V.

Both are available in Boulder or on Zoom.

Sign up through the link in bio.

09/07/2026

What if reaching farther isn’t the goal of Saw?

In her Twisting Workshop during our France Immersion, Kelli Burkhalter Hutchins looks at what happens when we use flexibility to create the appearance of a deeper twist.

The body can find plenty of ways to get there. The arm can reach farther. The spine can side bend. We can pull ourselves into a shape that looks like more rotation without actually creating more twist.

But what happens when the twist has to come from strength?

That changes the exercise.

Instead of using flexibility to reach the pinky toe, Kelli brings the work back to creating the twist from the center and strengthening the places that aren’t contributing to the movement yet.

There’s still time to join us for our September Immersion in Boulder, September 16–19, in person or on Zoom.

Sign up through the link in our bio.

Sometimes the exercise you think they’re not ready for is the one that shows you what’s been missing.As teachers, levels...
09/06/2026

Sometimes the exercise you think they’re not ready for is the one that shows you what’s been missing.

As teachers, levels give us a way to organize, understand, and progressively teach a very large body of work. But the levels aren’t the method. It’s all Pilates.

And as we move further into the work, the later exercises can reveal something about everything that came before. A missing connection. A place that needs more strength. A relationship we hadn’t seen yet.

That’s where we’re going in Classical Method Studies Part II.

We’ll dive into Levels III–V, not as a collection of harder exercises to master, but as part of one complete method. Stepping back from the individual trees so we can better understand, and teach, the forest.

September 30–October 4 in Boulder + on Zoom.

CMS will not be offered again until 2028. Sign up today through the link in our bio.

09/04/2026

What if the exercise you taught three exercises ago, or three levels ago, is the key to teaching the one in front of you now?

In this clip from Classical Method Studies, Aubrey draws on Elephant and even Teaser to help clarify the teaching of Up Stretch. Not because the exercises are the same, but because the ideas, actions, and experiences within the Method continue to layer.

That is what we are studying at Classical Method Studies.

The exercise facts matter. The setup matters. The choreography matters. But we have our online lectures for that data.

When we come together for CMS, we get to go beyond it.

We look at the Method as a whole. How the order teaches. How one exercise prepares the body for another. How something experienced in Level I can become a teaching tool again in Level III, IV, or V. How transitions, rhythm, tempo, partnering, and language all become part of teaching the work.

This spring, we began with the earlier levels. September 30–October 4, we continue that study, layering the Method all the way through Level V.

And if CMS has been on your list, this is the time to join us. After this fall session, Classical Method Studies will not be offered again until 2028.

Join us in Boulder or on Zoom for Classical Method Studies, September 30–October 4. Sign up through the link in our bio.

🎥: Very short clip from Spring CMS Series.

In loving memory of Leigh Reece, we are honored to announce the establishment of the Leigh Reece Pilates Scholarship.Lei...
09/02/2026

In loving memory of Leigh Reece, we are honored to announce the establishment of the Leigh Reece Pilates Scholarship.

Leigh believed deeply in the power of Pilates and dedicated herself to the method, her teaching, and her students with curiosity, discipline, joy, and an unwavering commitment to excellence.

This scholarship was created to carry forward something Leigh cared deeply about: the preservation and continuation of the Classical Pilates method. It will support a future student pursuing their education through The Pilates Center Teacher Training Program, helping another teacher deepen their understanding of the work and, in turn, share it with others.

We are currently raising funds to build the scholarship, and we invite our community to be part of honoring Leigh and carrying her love of Pilates forward.

The scholarship application process will open at a later date, with more information to come.

To learn more or contribute to the Leigh Reece Pilates Scholarship, visit the link in our bio.

May Leigh’s love of Pilates inspire generations to come.

Four days. A lot to dive into.September Immersion brings together workshops exploring the Method from different perspect...
08/31/2026

Four days. A lot to dive into.

September Immersion brings together workshops exploring the Method from different perspectives, with Amy, Kelli, Kaile, Aubrey, Susan, and more.

September 16–19, 2026
Boulder + Zoom
Workshops available à la carte
Recordings available for 30 days

Ready to build your Immersion schedule? Sign up through the link in our bio.

08/27/2026

Sometimes becoming a better teacher isn’t about having more answers. It’s about finding a better way to communicate what you already understand.

During Classical Method Studies, Amy shared the story of her client Frank and the moment one simple metaphor finally helped something click: you can repair the whole car, but if you put it on flat tires, it doesn’t matter.

Good teaching asks us to keep thinking. To find the image, the metaphor, the language that helps the person in front of us understand. To collaborate with our clients rather than simply tell them what to do.

And sometimes, the clients who ask the most questions make us better teachers because they require us to understand the work more deeply ourselves.

Join us this fall for Classical Method Studies, September 30–October 4, as we dive into Level III–V material and keep exploring not only what we teach, but how we teach it.

Join us in Boulder or on Zoom. Recordings available for 30 days.

What makes a teacher training program different isn’t just what you learn. It’s how you learn to think, see, and teach.A...
08/24/2026

What makes a teacher training program different isn’t just what you learn. It’s how you learn to think, see, and teach.

At The Pilates Center, our Teacher Training Program is a deep study of the Classical Pilates Method that goes far beyond learning exercises.

You’ll study the Method as an interconnected system. You’ll learn from multiple voices. You’ll be supported through mentorship, observation, practice, feedback, and community. And most importantly, you’ll develop the skills to take what you know and thoughtfully teach the person in front of you.

Because becoming a great teacher isn’t about having all the answers. It’s about building a strong foundation and continuing to ask better questions as your understanding grows.

Ready to begin your Classical Pilates journey?

Start here with us in Boulder or train with one of our Licensed Teacher Trainers or Host Advisors around the world.

Learn more about the TPC Teacher Training Program and find your place to begin through the link in our bio.

08/23/2026

Breath isn’t just something we add to the movement. It changes the movement.

From Kaile Ziemba’s “Above All Learn How to Breathe Correctly” workshop during our France Immersion, exploring breath as rhythm, support, and a way to take pressure off the body.

As Kaile reminds us here, moving the human body is already complicated. We don’t always need to micromanage every muscle. Sometimes the work is learning to feel the whole body moving together.

This is the kind of study we love. Returning to Joseph Pilates’ words, experiencing the ideas in our own bodies, and discovering how they can inform the way we move and teach today.

Next stop: Boulder.

Join Kaile Ziemba, Amy Taylor Alpers, Kelli Burkhalter Hutchins, and Aubrey Dalke for our September Immersion, September 16–19, with four days of classes, workshops, movement, and study.

Everything is à la carte, with options to join us in Boulder or on Zoom, plus 30-day access to the recordings.

Sign up through the link in our bio.

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