The Aligned Atelier
Pilates Intensives & Master Teacher Workshops
A dedicated space for deeper study in Pilates. Refine your practice, strengthen your understanding, and learn the work as it was meant to be taught: with rigor, nuance, and respect for the lineage.
Overview:
A Day with Clare Dunphy Hemani: Depth & Discovery, A Master Class in Classical Pilates - June 13th 2026
Devil’s in the Levels, A Master Class with Pamela Garcia - July 29th 2026
COMING SOON - Blossom Lelani Crawford’s Master Class
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Precision
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Clarity
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Depth ✳︎ Precision ✳︎ Clarity ✳︎ Mastery ✳︎ Study
A Day with Clare Dunphy Hemani: Depth & Discovery: A Master Class in Classical Pilates
Saturday June 13th, 2026
We are beyond excited to welcome Clare Dunphy Hemani, one of the most respected classical Pilates teachers and a true master, for a full-day workshop that promises to deepen your practice in ways you've likely never experienced before.
Clare brings unparalleled clarity, precision, and insight rooted in decades of study, embodiment, and teaching. Her work honors classical principles with integrity while making the method alive, accessible, and profoundly insightful for today's students and teachers alike. She is one of the foremost teachers in the country today, and created the Peak Pilates teacher training curriculum, the most rigorous Classical Pilates training currently.
This is a rare opportunity to work with a teacher whose depth of understanding transforms not just technique, but how you experience the practice for life.
Open to All (Intermediate Reformer) - Saturday June 13th, 9:30am-12:30pm
$280 regular price
$230 Aligned Pilates members
This session is perfect for committed practitioners ready to move beyond surface-level movement into real depth and discovery. Clare will guide you to see your reformer practice in a whole new way, addressing questions like:
What is footwork really for, why it matters, and how it sets you up for every exercise that follows
How the order of movement creates alignment, resilience, and expression in your body
The power of transitions—an essential but often overlooked element that makes everything flow with ease and purpose
How to feel exactly what you're aiming for in your body
How to access the purpose of each exercise, not just technically, but individually for you
We'll explore musicality—how movement truly flows, how to tune in, and how to embody the rhythm of the work so you feel it from the inside out.
Clare will also guide us to:
Quiet the mind and reduce internal chatter during sessions
Move away from commentary toward conversation with your body
Find deeper awareness and presence in every moment of your practice
This morning experience will give you tools that add profound value to every Pilates session you take, now and forever
Classes will include movement and theory, you will not be moving non-stop for 3 hours
Workshops and master classes are non-refundable, non-transferrable
Teacher-Focused Intensive (Tower and Mat), Saturday June 13th, 1:30pm-5:30pm
$280 regular price
$230 Aligned Pilates members
This session is designed for teachers, aspiring teachers, and experienced practitioners who want to refine their eye and sharpen their skill in working with others.
Clare will dive into:
Why and how we use the rollback bar with intelligence and purpose
Why and how we use the push-through bar with clarity and depth
Four mini-series that work beautifully on the tower
We'll work through real case scenarios, grounded in teaching experience and personal inquiry:
If someone comes in with a sensitive low back… what do you confidently offer next?
If someone presents as a shoulder person… how do you organize support, challenge, and progression?
Bring your toughest, most curious teaching questions. Clare welcomes curveballs and will show you how she thinks through movement, structure, and opportunity in real time.
This session is designed to make you a more confident, intuitive, and effective teacher, able to meet a variety of bodies and needs with clarity and care.
This workshop with Clare is a rare opportunity to meet the method at its deepest level—whether you're passionate about your own practice or committed to teaching others with clarity and excellence.
Devil’s in the Levels - A Master Class with Pamela Garcia
Wednesday July 29th, 2026
We are honored to be joined by Pamela Garcia, a deeply respected leader in the classical Pilates world and owner of Pure Pilates in Norwell, Massachusetts. Pam has been immersed in Pilates for decades, beginning her movement journey as a competitive gymnast and later committing to lifelong study of the Classical method. She is a Senior Teacher Trainer and Master Instructor for Peak Pilates, certified through multiple rigorous programs including Peak, the Pilates Institute, Lolita San Miguel’s Master Mentor Program, Polestar Pilates for Rehabilitation, and more, and is certified by the Pilates Method Alliance.
At Pure Pilates, Pam has cultivated a studio and education center dedicated to preserving the integrity of Joseph and Clara Pilates’ original work while also teaching with clarity, precision, and inclusivity. Her deep experience, both teaching clients of all levels and training new instructors, reflects a rare blend of technical mastery, pedagogical skill, and a philosophy that honors the transformative potential of the Pilates method.
Working with Pam is a chance to engage with one of the true stewards of classical Pilates; someone whose lifelong dedication to the craft has shaped teachers and practitioners all over the world.
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?