The Fletcher Perspective

Meet Adriano Bittar, the face of Fletcher Pilates in Brazil and organizer/featured presenter at the fifth Fletcher Pilates Biennial Conference, Every Body is Beautiful! to be held in Niterói, Brazil June 7-9, 2019. A former professional volleyball player, Adriano Bittar is a Pilates Teacher, university professor, researcher, Physiotherapist and a contemporary dancer. He first discovered…

Every body is divinely inspired, superbly designed, awesome in the complex way it’s put together and simple in the simple, economical way it works. Every body can be vital, strong and flexible, moving through life with grace and assurance, totally healthy – not just some of the time, but most of the time. Every body…

Julia Nichole Lopez attended her first Pilates Mat class in search of a way to actively ease back pain while attending college. She was smitten with the practice, signed up for private reformer lessons, and so began her Pilates journey. Explains Ms. Lopez, “Years spent in extreme spinal extension in dance, gymnastics and figure skating…

I remember working with Ron Fletcher in his later years… watching him move a student in a piece on the spine corrector. I noted in my journal, “It is as if he sees the inside of her body and knows exactly how her foot is connected to the opposite hand.” Ron did not speak directly…

For Immediate Release The Fletcher Pilates Program of Study Achieves PSAP Approval Status TUCSON, Arizona, (Jan. 3, 2018) – After completing the vigorous Pilates School Approval Program (PSAP) application, Fletcher Pilates®, Inc. is now the only PSAP approved school in the state of Arizona, one of only four such programs in the nation. The Pilates School Approval…

Balanced Body® got a chance to sit down with Kyria Sabin to discuss Pilates On Tour®.

Balanced Body® got a chance to sit down with Kyria Sabin to discuss Pilates On Tour®.

Awareness is a primary Pilates movement principle. How would you define Awareness in your studio? As teachers, we tend to our clients’ bodies, aware of how they feel on any given day. One of the first things we often ask our clients is, “How do you feel today?” As they take their first step into…

Awareness is a primary Pilates movement principle. How would you define Awareness in your studio? As teachers, we tend to our clients’ bodies, aware of how they feel on any given day. One of the first things we often ask our clients is, “How do you feel today?” As they take their first step into…

Please join us in celebrating Ron – at age 90 – teaching his last class in May of 2011.