Devil's in the Levels - A Master Class with Pamela Garcia
Reformer, Mat and Tower - Wednesday, July 29th, 9:30am-12:30pm
regular rate: $240
Member’s rate $190
Overview
The Devil’s in the Levels is a new offering from Pamela Garcia, adapting her famous “Devil’s in the Details” Master Class specially for Aligned Pilates. This is an invitation to deepen your relationship to movement in a way that will continue to inform your practice for years to come. Rooted in the classical Pilates tradition, this Master Class explores how movement quality evolves through intentional progression - across levels, apparatus, and spatial orientation. Rather than adding more choreography, we will examine how refinement, clarity, and intelligent layering can dramatically transform both the experience and the outcome of an exercise.
As students, this work reveals how familiar movements can feel entirely new when attention is placed on organization, sequencing, and transition. As teachers, it sharpens the eye and develops the skill of progressing clients with purpose - allowing intensity, challenge, and expression to emerge organically. Particular attention will be given to how shapes in space evolve, how exercises translate across apparatus, and how transitions become an integral part of the dance and flow of the practice rather than a moment in between.
Key Components
• Understanding the start and end point of every exercise, and how meaning deepens through levels
• How classical Pilates progressions build intelligence, resilience, and longevity in the body
• Distribution and redistribution of body weight through movement and transition
• Refining the relationship between what is stable and what is moving as complexity increases
• Expressing the two-way stretch with greater clarity and intention
• The influence of open vs. closed chain movement on control, strength, and freedom
• Translating movement efficiently through all planes and across apparatus
• Alignment as a living, responsive process rather than a fixed position
• Developing a sophisticated relationship to gravity at every level
• Crafting transitions that are seamless, intelligent, and expressive…part of the movement itself
At the End of the Day
As a Student:
Experience movement that is challenging, refining, and deeply satisfying
Gain clarity and confidence that you can carry into every future session
Spark inspiration to return to each session, curious, capable, and engaged
As a Teacher:
Gain tools that will elevate your teaching for life
Learn how to challenge students within their movement experience while honoring the integrity of the method
Leave better equipped to guide others toward depth, progression, and lasting transformation?
Reformer, Mat and Tower - Wednesday, July 29th, 9:30am-12:30pm
regular rate: $240
Member’s rate $190
Overview
The Devil’s in the Levels is a new offering from Pamela Garcia, adapting her famous “Devil’s in the Details” Master Class specially for Aligned Pilates. This is an invitation to deepen your relationship to movement in a way that will continue to inform your practice for years to come. Rooted in the classical Pilates tradition, this Master Class explores how movement quality evolves through intentional progression - across levels, apparatus, and spatial orientation. Rather than adding more choreography, we will examine how refinement, clarity, and intelligent layering can dramatically transform both the experience and the outcome of an exercise.
As students, this work reveals how familiar movements can feel entirely new when attention is placed on organization, sequencing, and transition. As teachers, it sharpens the eye and develops the skill of progressing clients with purpose - allowing intensity, challenge, and expression to emerge organically. Particular attention will be given to how shapes in space evolve, how exercises translate across apparatus, and how transitions become an integral part of the dance and flow of the practice rather than a moment in between.
Key Components
• Understanding the start and end point of every exercise, and how meaning deepens through levels
• How classical Pilates progressions build intelligence, resilience, and longevity in the body
• Distribution and redistribution of body weight through movement and transition
• Refining the relationship between what is stable and what is moving as complexity increases
• Expressing the two-way stretch with greater clarity and intention
• The influence of open vs. closed chain movement on control, strength, and freedom
• Translating movement efficiently through all planes and across apparatus
• Alignment as a living, responsive process rather than a fixed position
• Developing a sophisticated relationship to gravity at every level
• Crafting transitions that are seamless, intelligent, and expressive…part of the movement itself
At the End of the Day
As a Student:
Experience movement that is challenging, refining, and deeply satisfying
Gain clarity and confidence that you can carry into every future session
Spark inspiration to return to each session, curious, capable, and engaged
As a Teacher:
Gain tools that will elevate your teaching for life
Learn how to challenge students within their movement experience while honoring the integrity of the method
Leave better equipped to guide others toward depth, progression, and lasting transformation?