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Lolita San Miguel
Ms San Miguel is a first generation teacher of the Pilates Method. Born in New York, she studied at the School of American Ballet and graduated from the Performing Arts High School and was for 10 years a soloist with Metropolitan Opera Ballet. In 1958 she trained and was certified by Carola Trier and is especially proud of being one of two people in the world certified by Joseph H. Pilates. She is also certified by polestar Pilates Education, Inc. Ms San Miguel founded and directed, Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, a renowned ballet company and is also Founder and Director of Pilates y Mas. A popular international presenter, she is the author of a series of DVD's tiltled, "Lolita shares her Pilates" : Mat I, Reformer I, reformer II, and Lolita's Pilates BodyWalk.

Siri Galliano
Siri is a leading trainer in America and Europe, via her Live Art Pilates Studio in West Los Angeles, California. As a well known, "New York Pilates Instructor," with over 20 years experience, Siri was certified by Romana Kryzanowska and has taught the traditional method to actors in The Matrix 2, The Matrix 3, and Kill Bill films. She has traveled around the world helping to sculpt the bodies of celebrity clients such as Madonna, Sting, Uma Thurman, Carrie-Ann Moss, and Jessica Lange. Most recently Siri produced the enormously successful Big Bear Lake Pilates Intensive, which was designed to communicate the traditional method of Joseph Pilates' by 1st generation master teacher, Jay Grimes, as well as master teacher Dorothee VandeWalle, and several world class teacher trainers who are faithful to Romana.

Peter Fiasca
Peter is the founder of True Classical Pilates, undertook and completed his Pilates certification in 1998 under Romana Kryzanowska, formerly on The New York Pilates Studio Certification Program. Peter created the award winning Classical Pilates techniques series (six DVD titles) and was invited by Romana to be in her first commercial DVD project. Peter has continued his study with 1st generation master teachers Jay Grimes, and Kathy Grant, as well as many other prominent Pilates Method aficionados.

Peter has an M.A. in psychology, an M. Ed. counseling degree and Ph. D. (Columbia University). After relocating to Philadelphia in 1993, Peter worked in the psychology field at a number of well respected
medical facilities.

Throughout this time Peter remained devoted to preserving the traditional technique and unique spirit of Joseph Pilates' original method of physical and mental conditioning.

MeJo Wiggin
MeJo began studying Pilates at the original NY Pilates Studio in 1990, where she met and began extensive training with Master Teacher Romana Kryzanowska. In 2003, Romana selected MeJo to film her, "Romana's Pilates," Video series, and certified her as a Teacher Trainer to help her teach the next generation of Pilates instructors. Since then, MeJo has given seminars in classical Pilates throughout the US and Europe.



 




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