Elizabeth Larkam
Elizabeth Larkam, Handspring author on fascia and movement (National Certified Pilates Teacher, Balanced Body Master Instructor/Mentor, Feldenkrais® practitioner, Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis ® teacher) wrote Fascia in Motion: Fascia-focused movement for Pilates (2017), co-edited Pilates Applications for Health Conditions (2025) and authored the Pilates chapter for Fascia in Sport and Movement (2015, 2e 2020). Her private practice and ELARKAM Movement Systems are in a historic home built in 1898 in Georgetown, Texas.
Elizabeth was awarded the Medal of the Danish Society of Military Medicine in recognition of her efforts to improve the rehabilitation of wounded soldiers. She co-founded Heroes in Motion, an initiative of the Pilates Method Alliance, to customize movement programs for individuals with prosthetic limbs. As a Dancemedicine Pilates Specialist at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco Elizabeth created Pilates programs for orthopedic, spine, chronic pain and neurological conditions. As Director of Pilates & Beyond for Western Athletic Clubs, she was a developer of the internationally acclaimed Mind & Body Center at The San Francisco Bay Club. Elizabeth served as a Pilates Specialist with the San Francisco Ballet and Cirque de Soleil, a lecturer at the University of San Francisco in Exercise and Sports Science, and a lecturer at San Francisco State University in Dance. As co-founder and former co-owner of Polestar Education Elizabeth developed the curriculum and instructional videos that launched the Balanced Body Allegro Reformer in 1999, establishing group Pilates Reformer classes as an effective, affordable practice and successful business model.
Elizabeth studied in dissection labs directed by Carla Stecco, Gil Hedley, Todd Garcia and Tom Myers. She participated in the Fascial Net Plastination Project sponsored by the Fascia Research Society at the Plastinarium in Guben, Germany. Now in her fourth decade as an international educator, Elizabeth presents for Fascia Research Congress, The Fascia Hub, Pilates on Tour, Body Concept Shanghai, Bonum Pilates, Seoul, and VOLL Pilates Brazil. Find Elizabeth's on-line classes on pilatesanytime.com, pilatesfusion.edu, and bewellstaywell.net.
Amy Havens
Amy is a mover, a thinker and passionate about movement education. She was a dancer and chose to focus on her Pilates career after experiencing a hip injury while performing in San Francisco. She has been teaching for 28 years with certificates of completion from many programs - The PhysicalMind/Madeline Black, Pilates Conservatory/Pat Guyton, The Heritage Program/ Cara Reeser, Master-Mentor Programs/Rael Isacowitz and The Stretch To Win Institute/Frederick Stretch Therapy and Therapeutic Yoga/Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal, to name a few.
Amy is one of the original teachers for Pilates Anytime, the industry’s leading resource for online Pilates education. In addition to teaching for the site, Amy hosted and directed visiting teachers and was pivotal in content creation up until fall of 2020. Amy owned CenterPoint Pilates, one of Santa Barbara’s premier studios, for 20 years, and in the fall of 2020 downsized and now teaches in a small private space devoted to private and semi private clients. Amy enjoys teaching whether its online, in studios or traveling internationally. When not teaching, she loves cooking, hiking, dancing, restoring with yin yoga, spending time with friends and playing with her dog Luna.
Allie Greene
Allie Greene, LSW, RSME/T, 500 RYT, NCPT is a somatic movement educator and therapist who brings over two decades of embodied, trauma informed practice to her work at My Wellness Center and her studio, Soma Movement in Pittsburgh, PA. She offers somatically oriented psychotherapy including EMDR and also provides somatic movement sessions that integrate somatic yoga/pilates, developmental movement patterning, and embodied anatomy to help people reconnect with their bodies in supportive, meaningful ways.
Rooted in a social justice lens, Allie recognizes that our bodies carry both personal history and the imprint of larger systems that shape safety, identity, and access to well-being. She believes healing and growth is less about fixing what’s “wrong” and more about understanding the patterns that once protected us but may hold us back now.
Across all her work, Allie supports people in reconnecting with choice, dignity, curiosity, and the possibility of a more grounded, liberated, and resilient way of being.
Misty Lynne Cauthen
Misty Lynne: I was born to slay dragons, which is a complicated career path, because there aren’t any around these days…Instead, for the past 24 years I’ve directed my energies toward educating people of all ages and stages about the power of movement to strengthen, balance, and heal their bodies. As a Balanced Body Principal Educator since 2008, I’ve trained the next generations of teachers to share their gifts with students so they can thrive in their best bodies and minds. As a business coach, I’ve helped movement teachers and studio owners alike slay the dragons that inhibit their success.
My goal as a teacher and mentor is to always lead my students and clients to the joy of movement through grace, humor, honesty, and the right kind of hard work. And I love telling people what to do, so that’s a bonus. There is nothing more exciting to me than seeing the “aha” happen in real time - when the body and mind come together to make magic.
Anula Maiberg
Anula Maiberg is a Pilates educator dedicated to the idea that the Classical and Modern method belongs to every body. With 17 years of experience navigating the Pilatesverse. Anula Maiberg has become a leading voice in challenging the "cringe" and bias often found in the fitness industry.
Based in Pittsburgh, they specialize in combining Classical and Contemporary repertoire, proving that the brilliance of Joseph Pilates’ original "Universal" apparatus doesn’t need to be watered down—it just needs to be cued with confidence
Heidi Coles
With a background in Dance, Acrobatics, and Aerial Arts, movement has been a huge part of Heidi’s life. She holds a Degree in Dance from California State University, Long Beach and received her Comprehensive Pilates Certification under her college professor and first mentor, Karen Clippinger, through BASI in 2010. She has since become a Pre & Postnatal Pilates Specialist as well as a Balanced Body Educator.
Heidi brings a tremendous amount of energy to her work which has led her to teach on numerous online platforms including the Balanced Body YouTube Channel, and Pocket Pilates app. She keeps a rigorous Pilates education schedule alongside Kelly Leonardi at Blue Moon Pilates, one of BB’s esteemed authorized training centers. Her primary goal is to help new teachers find their voice, find their confidence, and find their value without necessarily reinventing the wheel.
Heidi truly believes when she became a Balanced Body Educator she truly found her calling.
