Georgia Issitt is the studio director at York Pilates Space. She has been a Pilates practitioner for 20 years, is comprehensively trained with MK Pilates to teach Reformer, Cadillac and Pilates studio apparatus, and began teaching in 2015. Besides a degree in Art History, Georgia holds a Level 3 qualification in Advanced Personal Training with the YMCA and the MK Pilates certifications for teaching pregnancy, post natal and mature clients. Like all of us at York Pilates Space, Georgia is involved in ongoing study. She has taken professional development training with Brent Anderson, Alan Herdman, Nuala Coombes and studied embodied anatomy with Ana Barretxeguren at Evolve Movement Education.
“The practise of Pilates is an ongoing journey where the more I learn the more I realise there is more to learn! My mission is to keep on growing my understanding and to share that with my clients at York Pilates Space”
Patricia Issitt is a master trainer for MK Pilates International and an ISMETA registered somatic movement educator (RSME)with more than 30 years experience in teaching movement. Patricia trained as a comprehensive Pilates teacher at Michael King’s Pilates Institute and at the Gordon Thomson studio London, and has taken intensive training in Pilates method workshops with master trainers such as Alan Herdman and Lolita San Miguel. She holds both the Pilates Institute Masters Diploma and the Certificate in Teaching Remedial (clinical) Pilates. Patricia has also completed 300 hours of studying human anatomy through hands-on dissection with Dr Gil Hedley and Julian Baker CBS. She is qualified with ‘Thoughtful Body’ to work with pre and post natal clients and is a CBS Bowen therapist .
Patricia has an M.A with distinction from University of Central Lancashire in ‘Dance and Somatic Wellbeing: connections to the the living body’; and offers one to one somatic movement sessions for wellbeing as well as her regular monthly somatic movement groups.
“I believe in teaching the body I see in front of me. Pilates is a system, a Method which takes time to learn but will stay with you for life”