Moira merrithew biography books
The company was founded in by entrepreneur and actor, Lindsay Merrithew, and Moira Merrithew....
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Moira Merrithew
Executive Director, Education
In , after hanging up her pointe shoes to nurse a foot injury, Moira Merrithew went to New York City to study the pilates method with Romana Kryzanowska at the original studio founded by the late Joseph H.
Pilates.
Ms. Merrithew had been a principal dancer with City Ballet of Toronto for seven years. She was introduced to pilates through the Dancer in Transition Center in Toronto, where she was the Center’s first grant recipient.
The Comprehensive Matwork* manual provides a precise breakdown of more than exercises and modifications in the STOTT PILATES* Matwork repertoire.
She spent two years studying, apprenticing and working with clients under Ms. Kryzanowska’s close scrutiny before being certified by her. She then returned to Toronto in to open the STOTT PILATES* Studio with business partner and husband Lindsay Merrithew.
A bulging disk in her neck prompted Ms.
Merrithew to study anatomy and exercise science. She then took this knowledge and applied it to pilates, collaborating with physical therapists and sp