About us
Studio Philosophy
Starting your training at the studio you embark on a journey with your teacher, discovering your needs, and setting your goals. You will become aware of how your movement patterns affect every day life activities. Together with you, a personalised and challenging program is created with the aim to achieve your individual goals. Our staff is very experienced and will offer helpful feedback throughout your sessions. The Pilates method offers a very large amount of exercises, which all have an unlimited number of variations. We encourage you to practice at home and design a small program for you to help to integrate the new movement awareness into daily life.
At Leilas’s Pilates we offer a private studio situation. In your class only you and the Pilates teacher are present in the space. We share our front door with the Fysio Diamond Factory, which allows for close collaboration with their physical therapists as well as their extensive network of health practitioners.
At Leilas’s Pilates we offer a private studio situation. In your class only you and the Pilates teacher are present in the space. We share our front door with the Fysio Diamond Factory, which allows for close collaboration with their physical therapists as well as their extensive network of health practitioners.
About Leila
My personal Pilates career has spanned more than 30 years, which has allowed me to specialize in this field in depth. My interest in Pilates comes from my constant curiosity about movement of the human body and the unique way that harmony in the body can be improved with the Pilates Method.
I have a holistic approach to my work, which has its origin in the many years of education and development in combination with my intuitive nature. The special thing about this work is that everyone is so different, and I continue to find it fascinating to find the right attunement for every person I work with.
Over the past twenty years I have taught many professional dancers, among others at the Nederlands Dans Theater (www.ndt.nl), the Dutch National Ballet (www.operaballet.nl) and the students of the National Ballet Academy. I have also been guiding top athletes in injury recovery and performance improvement for almost ten years.
Since 2010 I represent Polestar Pilates (www.polestarpilates.com) in the Netherlands and as one of their senior teachers I am responsible for training future Pilates teachers.
In collaboration with the Physiotherapy practice ‘Fysio Diamond Factory’ I teach clients with a wide range of complaints and injuries. It remains special for me to be part of the recovery process in people, to see complaints decrease, and thereby contribute to the overall well-being of my customers.
Every year I attend classes and courses. Some of the teachers I’ve been inspired by: Clarice Marshall, Brent Anderson, Elizabeth Larkam, Marie José Blom, Karen Clippenger, Liz Bussey, Deborah Kolwey, Jane Paris, Madeline Black and Jelena Petrovic.
I have also given several major presentations at IADMS, an international organization promoting the science of dancers’ health.
In addition to my long career as a Pilates and floor barre teacher, I am also a certified Vaganova Ballet teacher.
