Pilates Method Alliance News

Announcing Pilates Day® – May 2, 2009

Pilates Day was created by the PMA as a way to celebrate and raise the profile of Pilates and to bring the uninitiated into Pilates studios around the world. Pilates Day is an annual, international, community event celebrated on the first Saturday of May every year. The Pilates Day mission is to further the public’s appreciation and awareness of the Pilates Method through a multiplicity of events that are varied, innovative, and above all accessible and affordable for their communities.

As a program of the Pilates Method Alliance, Pilates Day events are produced and hosted by PMA members. To host an event, members go to the Pilates Day website, www.PilatesDay.com, and fill out an online application, giving details of their proposed event. Some members offer free introductory classes, some host lecture demonstrations, show videos, and provide hand-outs and snacks; others mix free classes with lectures on the benefits and history of the method. Pilates Wellness & Energy, a PMA sponsor in Madrid, Spain, is shooting for 1000 participants this year, which would break the record of the largest recorded mat class which they achieved last year with 751 people! It was incredible!

Pilates Day is a fun and exciting way to raise the public’s consciousness regarding its benefits, as well as offering instructors the opportunity to introduce the power of Pilates to new sectors of the community; senior citizens, people with low back pain, athletes, and anyone else wishing to strengthen their bodies, and nourish their minds. We hope you’ll join in! Check out www.PilatesDay.com

Join us for the 9th Annual International Educational Conference of the PMA in Dallas, Texas. It promises to be an exciting conference with an outstanding line-up of informative sessions, cutting-edge workshops, mat classes, plenty of exhibits featuring the latest Pilates products and services, pre-conference sessions, delicious food, and great opportunities to network!

While in Dallas, enjoy the sights! Here are some local highlights:

• More than 300 public art works are scattered throughout the city.
• The nation’s largest collection of 1930s Art Deco exposition style architecture is in Fair Park.
• Legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright designed the Dallas Theater Center, the only freestanding theater built to his design that is still operating today.
• More than 30 museums ranging from art, baseball and sewing machines to railroading and more, can be found in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area (and many are free)

Join other Pilates Professions for four days of learning, networking, sightseeing and having fun. If you have any questions or need help pre-registering for the conference, please contact Tanya Nieto-Winzey at [email protected] or call 1-866-573-4945 ext. 306. Please note that the fastest and most efficient way to reach Tanya is via email.