8 Day Pilates Holiday with Adventure Retreat in Quesada, Alajuela, Costa Rica

My Pilates story

In 1986 I turned my hobby of jazz dance into my profession. After years of teaching jazz dance full-time, my body started to suffer from severe back pain. According to the doctor's opinion, with such a back I should immediately teach something calmer in order to be able to continue my profession for a long time. As you can imagine, this was a shock for me! What now?
That was in 2003 and at that time the boom with Pilates training and power yoga was just beginning in Europe. At that time, almost only training on the mat was offered and so I tried it out. It fascinated me immediately because I felt muscles deep inside me where I didn't even know there were muscles. Unfortunately, there weren't many training schools in Switzerland yet, so I completed the Contemporary Polestar Mat training and the Power Yoga training. With the teaching of Pilates, my own practice and the targeted study of the method according to J. Pilates, I was able to quickly notice improvements in movement with my clients, but what was much more important for me at that time was that my own back pain became less and less. So a lifelong path captivated me.
I wanted to know more, learn more and travelled to various workshops, events and congresses with international Pilates luminaries, learning about the classical Pilates method and Pilates equipment. Even then it was my wish to pass on this knowledge to many interested people over time and become a Pilates Teacher Trainer. I found the Peak Pilates Training School (USA), which supported my wish and so from 2006 I was trained as a Peak Pilates Instructor as well as a Peak Pilates Trainer for the whole of Switzerland. Finally, in 2009, I was able to open a fully equipped Peak Pilates studio in Baar/Zug next to my dance and gymnastics studio "Body move" and immerse myself more and more in this world of holistic movement and method by Joe Pilates.
After years and thousands of hours of teaching, analysing, correcting and understanding clients and students, seeing how everything is connected and how emotions, experiences, thoughts and experiences are also reflected in the body and can be released and corrected with this ingenious method, I wanted to know even more. I took the 2nd Generation PMMP with Lolita San Miguel (USA), one of only two people who were still trained by Joe Pilates himself.
Many of the participants I had the pleasure of accompanying through the Peak Pilates School training are passionate and successful teachers and have also opened their own studios. I have seen where there is still a need for knowledge, modifications, ideas, connections etc. and have created various workshops that fill exactly these gaps. I impart this knowledge with a lot of humour, empathy, patience and practical experience. Aha-moments for every Pilates teacher. More information under Workshops.

Now a new stage of life has come and we will realise in Costa Rica to find more back to nature, connection and awareness. To adopt the lifestyle "Pura Vida" with all its facets. As my passion is still to accompany people into a self-determined and healthy life, we are opening a holistic Pilates Oasis on our property. A place where I continue to train Pilates enthusiasts for Peak Pilates USA, teach workshops and offer intensive, adventurous and restorative Pilates retreats for everyone of all levels so that you too can benefit from this knowledge.
This lifelong journey, which has now made me completely pain free and healthy after 20 years, is worth walking. I am infinitely grateful to J. Pilates for this system of exercises, but also for the holistic knowledge and the connections between body, mind and soul through movement, nutrition and mindset, which I would like to pass on. More info under Retreat.

I am proud to be a part of the classic Pilates history and to bring the vision of Joe Pilates to the world. To give you the opportunity to discover yourself through this method, to have a healthier, more vital and to the end more beautiful body, which has an enormous impact on your whole being.
"The attainment and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental tranquillity and spiritual peace are invaluable to their owners, if there are such fortunate ones living among us today. However, it is the ideal to strive for, and in our opinion, this unique trinity of a balanced body, mind and spirit can only be achieved through "Contrology"." Quote J.Pilates

Vinyasa Yoga is always adapted to the ability of the participants. We learn the sun salutation, the correct execution of the asanas so that everyone can benefit from the released energy. Meditation and relaxation are not neglected.

For over 15 years I have been working with nutrition, metabolism optimisation, vital substances and detoxification programmes. During this time I have been able to help many people regain their feel-good weight or simply become fitter, more vital and healthier. You just have to know the secret of nature and its science to be able to work with it. I like to pass on this knowledge to curious and open-minded people.