The Pilates Source® continuing education workshops are for Pilates studio teachers and serious pilates students. Our workshops, seminars, and conferences are extremely beneficial to all pilates instructors from all schools of Pilates who want to gain a deeper knowledge of Joe’s Contrology® and the history of the system. Workshops take place in various locations. Please see individual workshops for specific locations, dates, times, and rates.
Looking for more about Pilates History?
Browse our library of Pilates Historics™ Webinars, spanning decades of Pilates history. Through our webinars, we share tireless Pilates history research on topics such as Pilates apparatus history, archival Pilates, Joseph Pilates, Clara Pilates, the Pilates Elders, and more. As often as possible, we conduct live show and tells with archival, original, and vintage Pilates apparatus in our combined collection. View the Pilates Historics™ Webinars here.
Pilates Source® Weekend: Workshops & Private Sessions
Presented by Sean P. Gallagher and Elaine Ewing
Saturday-Sunday, March 14-15, 2026
Location: Miami Beach Pilates in Miami, Florida
Private Sessions and Observation with Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing (Sold Out)
March 14 and 15th
The Romana Tapes™: The Shoulder & Upper Back with Sean P. Gallagher, PT
March 14, 2026
11-4pm
This is an in-person workshop only. There are no virtual or recording options, as Romana wanted. This workshop is open to advanced students and teachers. This is open to any comprehensively trained teacher from any school or program. There is a no-cancellation, no refund policy on this workshop.
Workshop Description:
In continuing our affiliation with Miami Beach Pilates we are happy to bring another Romana Tapes workshop to Miami in 2026.
Are you interested in learning how Romana taught? Curious to learn and see her actual hands on cueing? Come experience what so many can only talk about or remember about working with Romana.
These tapes are not the professional videos of students demonstrating exercises with Romana talking them through the sequences and choreography. These foundational training tapes show Romana teaching hands on – one on one on how to teach the exercises to clients along with so many of her great stories from her decades of doing Joe’s work, running the Pilates studio with Clara and her daily clients. Come experience this unique continuing education from Classical Pilates Source™.
This workshop will be two 1-hour slots of watching Romana teach a workshop on the upper back and shoulder (recorded in 1990 at 2121 Broadway studio) and then two 1.5-hour sessions of practicing her hands on cueing and teachings techniques.
Archival Reformer Workshop with Elaine Ewing
March 15, 2026
10-12:30 pm
This is an in-person workshop only. There are no virtual options. This workshop is open to advanced students and teachers. There is a no-cancellation, no refund policy on this workshop.
Workshop Description:
Joseph Pilates archived specific orders, transitions, and exercises on the Universal Reformer through film and photos. In this workshop we will learn some of these original exercises and transitions and experience how they differ from the execution of classical pilates exercises today.
You will learn Joe’s original intentions for these exercises and experience the profound changes they can make to your practice once you learn and understand them in person, with hands-on teaching and practice. With direct feedback and assistance, you’ll be able to put this work into practice for yourself and your students.
Examples of exercises we will cover are Swan on Long Box, Corkscrew, Horseback, Tendon Stretch, etc.
The Pilates Source®:
Double Workshop
Presented by Sean P. Gallagher and Elaine Ewing
Monday, April 20, 2026
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
$400 per person for both workshops
Location: Rhinebeck Pilates, Rhinebeck NY
- Workshops are not available separately.
- These workshops are in-person only. There is no virtual option.
Workshop 1:
How to Address Individual Needs with Joe’s Contrology®
10:00 am – 12:30 pm
Have you ever felt unsure of your understanding of what to do or teach when a student comes in with a specific problem or injury? How do you approach the workout with a new student who was told to try pilates to help their particular problems? How do you adapt the workout for a current student who has experienced a new injury and wants to continue their pilates practice?
If you have questions about what exercises are good. or bad, to do in a pilates session when a student has an injury, join us for this interactive workshop where we will look at common issues and how the student’s individual needs can be met by using the Cadillac or Wall Unit.
Workshop attendees will be asked to submit a case study that may be selected for the workshop.
Workshop 2:
How to Address Problems When Teaching Certain Exercises
1:30 am – 4:00 pm
Do your clients struggle with learning or executing particular exercises? Do you wonder how you could approach the exercises in a new way that would help your students successfully accomplish them?
As teachers, we have the ability to teach with our verbal cues, tactile cues, visual demonstration, and more. In this participatory workshop, we will discuss common exercises that teachers may feel challenged to teach effectively on the Cadillac (or Wall Unit) and the mat. We will practice a variety of ways of teaching to best impart an understanding of pilates that will have lasting effects on your students and the quality of their workouts.
Pilates Archival Magic Circle™ Workshop
Presented by Sean Gallagher & Elaine Ewing
Sunday, May 17, 2026
11-3pm
$300 per person
Location:
939 8th Avenue, Studio 2A
New York, NY
This is an in-person workshop only. There are no virtual options. This workshop is open to advanced students and teachers. There is a no-cancellation, no refund policy on this workshop.
Workshop Description:
Joe Pilates archived the use of multiple exercises using a circular apparatus he designed as part of his system, known today as The Magic Circle.
Over decades, he documented its use with his students as the models, on film, photographs, in articles, and as equipment.
In this workshop we focus on providing you an in-depth study and practice highlighting Joe’s original exercises with the Magic Circle.
We will also incorporate Lost Exercises Joe designed for the Tensometer, which was an apparatus with similar biomechanics and functions to the Magic Circle.
You’ll leave with an in-depth understanding of an archival repertoire that you can teach to your students from beginner to advanced- that you learned while actually practicing inside the original pilates studio at 939 8th Avenue!
As an extra bonus, we will have a time line of magic circles on display, and conduct a live, historical show and tell. Included in the time line we will have what is currently known as the oldest Magic Circle to exist today, a Magic Circle from the early 1970s, and other Magic Circles that have been made since then.
Pilates Source® Supplementary Apparatus Workshop
Presented by Sean P. Gallagher, PT and Elaine Ewing
Sunday, November 15, 2026
12-6pm
$450 per person
This is an in-person workshop only. There are no virtual or recording options, as Romana wanted. This workshop is open to advanced students and teachers. This is open to any comprehensively trained teacher from any school or program. There is a no-cancellation, no refund policy on this workshop.
Workshop Description:
This continuing education workshop will focus on apparatus not commonly taught in training programs, but help provide within the system an ability to address functional deficiencies that can be found within the bodies in front of us:
- The Baby Chair
- The Magic Squares (Neck Stretcher, Toe Corrector, and Hand Tensometer)
- The Foot Corrector
Throughout the workshop, we will focus on how Joe Pilates originally used each of these apparatus with his students, and how it was continued to be used and passed down in the classical Pilates system.
We will also have the opportunity to use and learn more about the original and archival apparatus of each of these pieces of equipment, from the combined collection of Sean Gallagher and Elaine Ewing. This includes 2 original Baby Chairs, as well as the original chair Joe invented that this apparatus was developed from. Original Neck Stretchers and Toe Correctors, and the original Foot Corrector. Throughout the workshop, these original pieces will inform our practice, and provide deeper insight into how we practice today with classically produced equipment.