Our Instructors
We will help you learn to move your body correctly and efficiently to avoid injuries for greater fitness success.
Our instructors are extensively trained and certified by Romana Kryzanowska, Pilates Elder and world-renowned protege of Joseph Pilates, and Sari Mejia Santo, master teacher at Romana's Pilates in New York City. Their goal is to preserve Joseph Pilates' unique system of body conditioning while providing clientele with a safe and effective workout. They will help you learn to move your body correctly and efficiently for greater fitness success and to avoid injury.
Elizabeth Lowe Ahearn
Founding Director and Certified Instructor
410-337-6399
elizabeth.ahearn@goucher.edu
Elizabeth Lowe Ahearn began her Pilates training as a dance major at SUNY Purchase. After exploring several body therapies, she found that Pilates most deeply aligned with the principles of dance that she was accustom to, including deep core support (centering), alignment, control, precision, and flow of movement. Elizabeth graduated from New York University Tisch School of the Arts with her B.F.A. and M.F.A. Soon thereafter she attended the NY Pilates Studio鈥檚 certification program where she studied closely with Romana Kryzanowka, Carol Dodge, and Sari Mejia Santo receiving her teacher certification from The Pilates Studio庐/Authentic Pilates庐 in New York City in 1994.
The results of Elizabeth's research can be found in the World Book Encyclopedia, Discovering Pure Classical Pilates, and in the Journal of Dance Education in an article titled 鈥淭he Pilates Method and Ballet Technique-Applications in the
Dance Studio.鈥� Her most recent work, 鈥淭he Effects of Pilates Training on The Alignment
of the Pelvis in Dancers Ages 17-22鈥� was presented at the Pilates Method Conference
in Arizona, the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science in Houston,
and was published in the December 2018 Journal of Dance Medicine and Science.
Elizabeth feels fortunate to have the opportunity to discover and learn something about the human anatomy everyday, while making an impact on her student鈥檚 bodies and lives.
Stephanie Lawson
Director, Instructor, and Level IV Romana's Pilates Teacher Trainer
stephanie.lawson@goucher.edu
Stephanie Lawson 鈥�06 is from Middlesex, VT and began practicing Pilates while recovering from ACL/meniscal surgery. She was a dancer who was eager to recover as quickly as possible, so she began using Pilates as a form of rehabilitation. Stephanie feels the longer she practices Pilates, the more fulfilling it becomes. She believes Pilates can be very powerful and loves to watch how it benefits any and everybody that puts the mind and the body together with control. As the director of the Pilates Center at 水果派AV解说, Stephanie is proud of her extensively trained instructors who truly care about the Pilates method and about sharing Joseph Pilates鈥� work.