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On Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 6:30pm EDT Easter US Time Zone, Pilates historian Elaine Ewing will join Pilatay managing editor Tracy Belcher for an Instagram Live interview on @pilatay, debunking the most common misconceptions on the history of Pilates.

Did Joseph Pilates really use a keg to create the fist magic circle and barrel? Was the first Pilates Cadillac apparatus really made while he was rehabbing soldiers? … and other questions, answered.

We are separating fact from fiction and getting all the tea from go-to Pilates historian Elaine Ewing who has dedicated years to studying archival documentation and never-before-seen photos of Pilates creator, Joseph Pilates.

This is a new Instagram live series hosted by Tracy Belcher, Pilatay founder and managing editor. The series explores topics of interest to Pilates people in a fun, friendly and interactive environment. To receive invitations to upcoming programs, subscribe to Pilatay.com and follow @pilatay on Instagram.

Event Details

• Pilatay Presents “The Greatest Myths In Pilates History, Debunked” With Pilates Historian Elaine Ewing

• Instagram Live on @pilatay (follow)

• Thursday, August 6, 2020 at 6:30pm

• For more information, contact Tracy Belcher at hello@pilatay.com

About Elaine Ewing

Through her work with Sean Gallagher at The Pilates Source™, she has completed extensive archival research.

The Pilates Source™ is a program by Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing, the owner of Joseph Pilates’ original studio business and Becket Massachusetts studio and property, which hosts workshops digging deep into the roots of Contrology (Joseph Pilates’ original name for what we know today as “Pilates.”)

Through her work with The Pilates Source™, Elaine has played a major role in restoring Joseph Pilates’ original studio in Becket, MA, where he taught and developed his work., into a working studio and museum. Elaine also teaches at Pilates at the Pillow™ , a series of conferences that invites Pilates teachers from around the world to experience lost apparatuses, reproduced exclusively for the conferences using Joe's original apparatus, original blue prints, archival photographs, film, writings, and drawings. There, she teaches archival exercises using Joe's original words and cue's for each exercise, often revealing never-before-known information to pilates teachers.

Elaine is a certified Authentic Pilates teacher through the New York Pilates Studio®. She owns and teaches at her studio, Rhinebeck Pilates, in Rhinebeck, NY as well as teaches at The New York Pilates Studio®. She owns 7 pieces of apparatus original to Joseph Pilates and his New York City Studio, which are currently displayed and in use at Rhinebeck Pilates. She has studied and practiced pilates extensively through workshops and classes taught by teachers such as Sean Gallagher, Pam Pardi, MeJo Wiggin, Steve Giordano, Bob Liekens, Leah Chaback Katz, Simona Cipriani, and Junghee Won, to name a few.

Elaine can be found on Pilatesology teaching “Archival Ped-o-Pul”, “The Resister™”, and “Joe’s 4 Original Airplane Boards”, as well as conducting an interview with Sean Gallagher on the making of his archival pilates book, “The Joseph H. Pilates Archive Collection”. She has also taught pilates to the performers in Cirque du Soleil, "Paramour", at The New York Pilates Studio® in NYC, from 2016 until the show closed in 2017.

Elaine also helps manage the Pilates Guild™ with Sean Gallagher, and assists in running online sales of archival posters and studio art with Sean. The Pilates Guild® is an international membership organization that supports and promotes Pilates Guild® Certified Teachers and the pilates method as Joseph Pilates intended.