Alithea Meyer, Founder of Center Flow Pilates, Classical Romana Style certified Pilates instructor and certified 500 RYT Yoga Alliance instructor with 23 years experience teaching movement. She is knowledgeable in teaching a wide variety of ages (6-83) , professional athletes and dancers, injured seeking rehab and those just wanting to get back into shape. Alithea was a nationally ranked gymnast until a debilitating back injury forced an early retirement. After numerous attempts with conventional rehabilitation, she found a cure through Pilates. Eager to share her experience of wellness with a desire to help others, she discovered The Pilates Center; a world renowned teaching facility in Boulder, Colorado. Upon her completion of the (900 hr) extensive teacher training program with second generation students of Joseph Pilates and students of Romana Kryzanowski, Kathy Grant and Eve Gentry, she took her skills and knowledge to California where she taught for three years while performing Aerial Dance throughout the country. Ready to open a studio with her own vision, she moved to Portland, Oregon and opened Center Flow Pilates. She received her Yoga teacher training through Marianne Wells Yoga School 200 RYT course in Costa Rica and 500 RYT at Zuna Yoga School in Indonesia. She also a certified SUP Yoga and SUP Pilates instructor. She currently offers workshops and retreats and teaches online sessions via skype or FaceTime to clients all over the world. Alithea remains active in continuing education courses and is a current member of The Yoga Alliance. Her approach is to connect the mind to the body and movement to the breath to correct and maintain balance within. Along with Pilates, Alithea enjoys, hiking, running on the beach, swimming, yoga, skiing and SUP
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At a very young age Michele was unknowingly committed to a life of physical fitness; from tumbling and ballet classes at the age of 4, followed by years of gymnastics, dance, soccer, and cheer. In high school she led cheer, dance, and tumbling camps at the local YMCA. Eventually she involved herself in teaching “aerobics” and was a dancer/cheerleader for the NBA Milwaukee Bucks Energee! Dance team for several years. Michele has always been fascinated with the human body—its anatomy, its kinesiology, and its movement patterns. It wasn’t until Michele moved to Houston in 1998 and found a gym that taught Pilates and yoga classes that she begin her practice in the two by taking classes from others. In 2001 she began certifications in both Pilates and yoga. Her initial Pilates Mat and Reformer certifications are with Michael King of Pilates Institute London (formally with the Houston Ballet) and continuing education with Stott Pilates, Peak Pilates, Physical Mind, and BASI. She also took muscle activation technique training and stretch to win certifications in 2007 to add much needed assisted stretch therapy to her clients. Her first yoga teacher was Robert Boustany in Hatha yoga. After years of teaching and finding her own method and style she sought further education with John Friend (former Anusara yoga) and Baron Baptiste (Power Vinyasa Yoga). She continues to grow and learn in her own personal developments every day, and loves seeing what the two disciplines bring to those she meets and teaches. Always a student of others, forever a learner, she looks forward these skills every day. She brings the love of physical movement principles to everyone, young and old. "I see positive and powerful changes in each of them. I believe each of us has the ability to be happy, loving and carefree!” Michele has a background in teaching Pumped Up Pilates Mat, Yoga for Athletes, Cardio PiYo, Pilates Circuit, Barre Redefined, Pilates Athletic Conditioning (Jumpboard) Circuit, TRX HIIT, Restorative Yoga and Intro to Pilates Circuit. stretch therapy, barre, pilates, prenatal pilates, yoga and booty camp. In her free time she likes to garden and landscape, play with her two dogs Barney and Pax, and travel.
