Fully convinced that regular, disciplined use of the Method brings results for all who try it, we are delighted to work together, sharing the same approach and search for excellence, to bring the wonderful power of Pilates to the Brussels community and beyond.
Tania Tsiora
Gymnastics and dance have been a big part of Tania’s motivation in her daily life since an early age. She started artistic and rhythmic gymnastics at the age of four and she was practicing and performing until her adolescence.
In her career Tania worked as a human rights activist and later she followed her passion. She began studying Pilates even while maintaining her office work. Each experience and knowledge learned during these stages is reflected in the way she works. Tania passionately believes in joint body-mind training to get people to unleash their full potential.
Tania accomplished the first intensive course for teachers organized by The Lab – Uno Pilates school and taught by Fabien Menegon (Centre Pilates Barcelona) and Miguel Silva (Uno Pilates school). In October 2019, Tania arrived in Athens to teach at Athens Pilates studio, Maria Vorrias and raise awareness about the original method of Pilates and in 2020 she opened the studio in Brussels. Since then, she has also been training with other distinguished teachers in the Pilates world such as Elaine Ewing, Lori Coleman-Brown, Veronica Ruiz Jimenez and Michael Johnson following seminars around the world and giving her own workshops
Elizabeth Whittam
Passionate about Pilates since taking her first class in 2008, she is overjoyed to have made it her career.
Elizabeth loves that there is no end to how far you can progress your own movement. Once you start to feel and see the results Pilates brings, you want to go on. That’s what makes it so gratifying to teach. Elizabeth strongly believes that the greatest reward as a teacher is to witness the change in clients’ bodies as they progress, grow stronger and more supple, gaining confidence as they realize they can move with more ease, and are capable of so much more than they imagined.
Belgo-British and originally from a human resources background, she first trained to teach Pilates in Brussels from 2014 and made a career switch to make it her full-time job. Recently, this led her to spend 18 months studying with world-renowned Master Trainer Fabien Menegon, who was himself trained by Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates’ protégé. Fabien’s internationally recognised school in Spain, the Spanish School of Authentic Pilates (EEDAP – Escuela Española de Auténtico Pilates), trains instructors to understand and apply the authentic Pilates Method, the way Joseph Pilates intended.
Tania is a passionate and attentive teacher! She puts a lot of care in understanding her students’ specific needs, weaknesses and strengths to devise the most adapted training plans. I do quite a lot of endurance sport (running, cycling and swimming) and I chose Pilates as a complement to my training. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the soft and gentle Pilates classes you normally see in gyms: a class with Tania is a real workout! You should really see it as a training plan. One-off sessions might make you feel good, but it is with a constant and coherent training that you will get the most of it. Within one year since I started training with her, I noticed great improvements in my core strength. My swimming improved a lot thanks to the greater stability and the training for the arms and the back muscles that usually get a little neglected by endurance athletes. Most importantly I think I developed a better feeling for the positions I take and the muscles I use, which is helping me overall to train and prevent injuries. If you are dedicated to work on yourself and your muscle awareness, I can only recommend her!
After having experienced various Pilates teachers and methodologies, I decided to continue taking private classes with Tania for several reasons. First, when it comes to improving physical and postural condition, she does not settle for an average result. Tania is a dedicated, passionate and committed teacher who will demand and bring the very best out of you. I appreciated her approach as she works patiently, gradually and thoughtfully to improve every aspects of your muscular structure, which is primordial in case of injuries. Additionally, she teaches the most authentic -classical – form of Pilates which I felt had the better results and respected the specificities of my body biomecanic. Thanks to her, I was able to get better postures every day, reducing considerably my back pain, and re-inforcing my entire muscular structure. After having attended weekly classes assiduously with Tania for one year, I feel more robust and tonic at the age of 42 than I ever felt before and most importantly my back pain is now an old souvenir. I will forever be grateful to her for the work she has accomplished with me
