Pilates/Gyrotonic studio

Private lesson with Pilates equipment
At Dancestreet Pilates and Gyrotonic Studio you can experience new ways to work, train and condition your body. Both Pilates and Gyrotonic aim to strenghten, stretch, tone and develop your musculature while improving coordination, alignment and overall body health.

Our new studio is fully eguipped with state of the art machinery and our certified instructors are highly experienced and come from a variety of movement backgrounds. They will work with you to create an exercise and/or rehabilitation regimen in one or both of the offered methods that meets your personal goals.

What is Pilates?
Joseph Pilates developed this method of exercise in the 1920's to help speed recovery of soldiers in WWI. Still an excellent way to rehabilitate from injury or surgery, the Pilates method also has much more to offer. The technique aims to strenghten your body without building bulk. It facilitates body awareness, good posture, flexibility, strenghth, coordination and grace. The technique is comprised of over 500 exercises which can be performed on a mat or on specialized equipment which can provide support and resistence. The method works to develop the strength of your core by training the deep abdominal muscles closest to your spine. Muscles will gain not only strength but also elasticity, and joints will gain mobility. The Pilates method is an experience that involves your entire musculature as well as your mind and spirit and creates a balanced and well conditioned body.

What is Gyrotonic?
By combining movements from ballet, gymnastics, swimming and yoga, creator Julia Horvath developed the Gyrotonic Expansion System. This method of body conditioning is performed on wooden equipment designed to allow total freedom of movement. The method aims to increase the functional capacity of the spine and exercise your musculature while mobilizing and articulating the joints without compression. In its exercises you will stretch and strengthen simultaneously as well as develop your range of motion and coordination thereby facilitating a well proportioned and less injury prone body. The excercises are based on natural and spherical movements and are executed with a synchronised breathing pattern and ryhthmical awareness which create cardiovascular stimulation. A session will leave you feeling worked and rejuvenated.

For further information about pilates, gyrotonic and prices you can contact the teachers.

Sarah Verbeek
Sarah is a qualified pilates instructor with a rich background in ballet. Since ending her 10 years as a professional dancing in 2005, the last 6 years with the Dutch National ballet, Sarah completed her pilates training here in Amsterdam with Debbie Jenner's 'Pilates Company' and has also had many years of experience with pilates throughout her dancing career, training with instructors in Melbourne, Hong Kong and here in Amsterdam.	Call: 0619008304 or mail purplesnake8@hotmail.com
Shayne Mishoe
Shayne Mishoe is a professional dancer and teacher Pilates, Gyrotonic en ballet. She is a Pilates instructor, she received her diploma in 2001, at the Kane School of Core Integration in New York City. As of than she taught pilates at the Boston Bodyworks Studio in Boston and in DanceStreet's Pilates en Gyrotonic Studio in Amsterdam. Shayne is also a certified Gyrotonic instructor.	Call: 020-6894740 / 06-38409072
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Margherita Bencini
Margherita is a professional dancer and a qualified Pilates and  Gyrotonic instructor. She has been dancing more than ten years with several dance companies in Germany, Italy, France, Netherlands and United States. Margherita got her Pilates diplomas in Power House, Dublin and in Body Art and Science (BASI), Amsterdam. She received her education in Gyrotonic in Germany, directly with J. Horvath, the inventor of the Gyrotonic System.	Bel 0611214428 of e-mail: maben33@hotmail.com