Certified Instructors
Ava Motter
Jan Boal
Anne Bishop
Ava Motter
Certified: Physical Mind and Integrated Teacher Training and Pre/Post Natal Pilates Exercise Specialist
Jan Boal
Jan Boal comes to Pilates with Anne as the owner and director of one of the first Pilates studio in Kansas City. As a Certified Pilates Instructor with over 11 years of experience Jan brings a wealth of therapeutic and sports oriented knowledge to her instruction. Because of her personal degenerative back problems from years of aerobics, running and weight lifting it was a natural progression for her to work with clients with similar problems.
"I was heading for major issues and if it were not for Pilates training I could not have continued my running endeavors." She studied with Danny Dryer of Chi Running and Walking technique, and obtained her comprehensive Pilates Certification through Center Works Pilates and studied over 90 hours with Master Teacher Dianne Miller of Vancouver Canada.
In addition to Pilates, Jan is and ACE Certified Personal Trainer (1996) and
affiliated with Pilates Method Alliance (2002) and IDEA (1996). As an avid walker and runner Jan also finished in 8 marathons, 2 half Iron Man Competitions and two Pikes Peak Marathons (2006 & 07) and trained over 17 years for triathlons and competitive road racing. She is very happy to be back in her home state of California after living in Kansas for over 35 years.
Anne Bishop
Certified Instructor in Pilates Academy International, STOTT Pilates™, Pre/Post Natal Pilates Exercise Specialist and the Pink Ribbon Program
Anne Bishop has immense enthusiasm for Pilates and her clients. Her movement history begins with dance. She started studying Pilates in 2000 and received her certification in 2002 with Stott Pilates in Toronto, Canada.
Anne followed her passion for body awareness and the human form at San Francisco State University. There she studied biology, anatomy, and movement, receiving a Bachelors of Science in Physiology in 2005. In 2006 she joined the faculty at SFSU for a year, where she taught anatomy laboratory class in the Biology Department. Anne draws from her academic education and her passion for movement to create a uniquely well-rounded approach to Pilates. Keeping abreast of new developments and challenges has inspired Anne to further her training at the Pilates Academy International (PAI) in Manhattan, New York. In July 2006, Anne became a certifying instructor for PAI, training instructors of Pilates in California and throughout the world. Most recently through PAI Anne was hired to teach and certify future instructors in the field in Istanbul, Turkey. Anne’s love for travel has expanded her teaching locals to such places as in Jamaica and at the Balance Pilates Studio in the Dominican Republic. Anne is dedicated to continually expanding her education in the field and sharing her love of Pilates with clients. Anne recently became certified in the specialties in Pre- and Post-Natal Pilates and the Pink Ribbon Program, which helps breast cancer survivors post operatively. She inspires them to honor where they are in each session, and to move forward with playfulness, mindfulness, and great enthusiasm in their practice.
Anne received her Master's in Mind, Brain and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education to study the connection between learning movement and the brain. She is expanding her passion of connecting movement neuroscience to the mind body community through her Body Brain lecture series.
