All Things Pilates with Darien Gold - Pilates Expert Darien Gold

Send us a Text Message.In the 1980’s, Elena Bartley our guest today was a company member of Dance Theater of Harlem, the most prestigious black ballet dance company in the world. As fortune would have it, Elena learned about the Contrology System AKA Pilates, from the company’s executive director, Kathy Grant who was as many of you know, a disciple of Joe Pilates. After spending two decades as one of the company’s soloists, Elena transitioned to teaching Pilates and brought with her a dancer’...

Send us a Text Message.Hey all of you studio and home apparatus owners! How often do you clean and maintain your apparatus? Were you ever shown how to properly care for your equipment? Our guest today is Tee Encarnacion who is the Owner of Pilates Pro-Maintanence located in New York City and he and his company service equipment in studios and in homes throughout the country and now international as well. Tee will help us understand why we need to maintain our equipment and will share a few ti...

Send us a Text Message.Over the course of nearly a hundred years, the design, form and manufacturing of Joe Pilates’ invention, the Reformer hasn’t changed much. But manufacturing materials have continued to evolve and in the 1950’s, Joe’s Reformer changed from a wood frame to that of aluminum. In this episode, Joseph DeRuvo, the creator of Barefoot Contrology and co-founder of Universal Pilates Machine is about to change our idea of Joe's apparatus designs.About Darien Gold ~ https://ww...

Send us a Text Message.For those of us who are adults and have only faint memories of what it was like to be in the world as a teenager, today I’d like to introduce you to Bela Resendes, a sophomore at Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton. Florida. For the last 2 years, Bela has been studying the Pilates Method at her mom’s studio, Delfina Pilates. Last year, I had the pleasure to teach a Wunda chair duet lesson with Bela and her sister, Luna. What I found so refreshing was their...

Send us a Text Message.On this episode, we have with us Shari Berkowitz, the creator and founder of the Vertical Workshop. Shari travels nationally and internationally imparting the Pilates methodology but with a comprehensive focus on bio-mechanics. Shari has many thoughts about many Pilates things and we get into it!About Darien Gold ~ https://www.dariengold.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/darien_gold_pilates_expertFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/dariengoldMusic credits ~ In...

Send us a Text Message.Your daughter has cancer. Can there be four words more frightening for a parent to hear? Our guest today is Colleen Cappiello, a Pilates studio owner who has found herself juggling the running of her studio and being her daughter’s fiercest advocate as her daughter recovers from cancer. When we have outside challenges that impact our ability to run our studios, where or who do we turn to? I’ll be discussing this question with Colleen as well as how this event has impact...