ROMANA KRYZANOWSKA

Master teacher trainer

Romana started as Joseph Pilates protégé and star pupil in the 1940s. She has become the most pre-eminent and respected representative of the method and is now recognized internationally as the Grande Dame of Pilates.

Romana has been teaching the method for nearly six decades. Long ago Romana made a commitment to Joe and Clare Pilates to continue their life’s work.

Romana is still fit in her 80’s (an amazing testimony to the effectiveness of Authentic Pilates), travels extensively and visits the “Pilates Method Studio” studio once a year to conduct Advanced workshops and Continuing Education classes. Her personal warmth, bright humour, clever wit, and vast knowledge of the method make her much loved and greatly appreciated.

Romana teaches Pilates as Joe intended it to be taught...

She still teaches every day, and travels around the world and teaches and carries on this method, and makes sure that it stays as pure as it was when she learned it. This is very difficult because many who learned under Joe began to teach other people the way they’d been taught for their own bodies which isn’t necessarily the way to teach everyone. Romana learned from Joseph how to break down each movement so it could be taught to each individual. That’s the difference. Many who didn’t stay with their training tend to teach slower or more therapeutically than originally Joe had planned.

The annual workshop is being held in Sydney in April 2007 to provide the Australian based certified instructors with continuing education in the authentic Pilates Method. This workshop is held annually around the world to ensure that the quality and integrity of teaching in the Real Pilates Method is retained.