Jo-Ann Sullivan

Her Pilates education includes an intensive apprenticeship training program following the Polestar Education Pilates curriculum as well as completion of the widely recognized Stott Pilates Conditioning Program. She has also graduated from the Masters Program offered by the world renown Pilates Centre in Boulder Colorado - considered by many to offer the most rigorous, comprehensive and respected training program in the world. She continues to expand her knowledge of anatomy and movement by incorporating other modalities of bodywork such as Therapeutic Ball Release and Anatomy Trains and yoga.

She has been involved in the Pilates community in BC since 1998 after a car accident left her with injuries that were not healing from traditional methods of rehabilitation. It was at that time she realized the powerful connection between mind and body to heal itself. Her first experience with teaching this method was at Delta Orthopaedic and Physiotherapy under the guidance of Diane Lee and Karen Angelucci. She then went on to teach at the Canadian Pilates Institute. This experience along with modern scientific gains and insight into how the body moves helped her realize that Pilates is an ever growing and evolving system with a deep respect for its traditional roots. It is from this perspective that Jo-Ann's goal is to inspire others to work towards the same profound changes she herself experienced through the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning.