Both sessions limited to 10 attendees

Aligned members get $50 off each session, $100 off the full day, inquire for the member discount code before booking

Morning Workshop (9:30 AM–12:30 PM)

From the Ground Up: Feet, Spine & the Apparatus

Open to all levels

The feet are our first point of contact with the world, yet they are often overlooked in movement training. In this workshop, Blossom Leilani Crawford explores how organizing the body from the ground up can transform strength, balance, mobility, and ease throughout the entire system.

Drawing from her more recent work of the past decade focusing on spinal alignment and her decades of teaching within the Kathy Grant lineage, Blossom will guide participants through an exploration of the relationship between the feet, pelvis, and spine, revealing how small shifts in organization can create profound changes in movement.

Using the Reformer and Tower as our primary tools, participants will experience how the apparatus can provide support, challenge, and feedback that help uncover deeper connections throughout the body. Rather than focusing on exercises alone, we'll explore principles that can be applied across the entire Pilates repertoire.

This workshop is appropriate for students of all levels, as well as teachers seeking to deepen their personal practice and understanding of movement.

Afternoon Workshop (2:00 PM–5:00 PM)

Beyond the Exercise: Observation, Adaptation & the Art of Teaching Pilates

Designed for Pilates teachers and movement professionals

What separates a good instructor from a master teacher is rarely knowledge of the exercises. It is the ability to see what is happening in front of them and respond with clarity, creativity, and purpose.

In this workshop, Blossom Leilani Crawford shares insights drawn from decades of teaching, mentorship, and study within the Kathy Grant tradition. Using mat work as our laboratory, participants will explore how to recognize movement patterns, identify compensations, and understand the relationships between the feet, spine, breath, and whole-body organization.

Rather than focusing on choreography, this workshop examines the deeper art of teaching: what to observe, what matters, what doesn't, and how to make meaningful decisions in real time. Through discussion, movement, and case-study style exploration, teachers will learn how to adapt exercises for different bodies, communicate more effectively, and create experiences that support lasting change.

Participants will leave with sharpened observational skills, practical teaching strategies, and a deeper understanding of the judgment, curiosity, and discernment that underpin true mastery in Pilates instruction.

Workshops and programs are non-refundable, non-transferrable

Reformer, Mat and Tower - Wednesday, July 29th, 9:30am-12:30pm

• regular rate: $280

• Member’s rate $230

Interested in private sessions with Pam in the afternoon? Message here to inquire

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?