Springboard Pilates : About Bethany Tinsley Mateosian


	Bethany Tinsley Mateosian grew up in Texas and Holland and graduated from Bowdoin College with a major in anthropology and a minor in mathematics. She has been a dancer since the age of 5, and she rowed on the crew team for three years while at Bowdoin. Bethany chose to get certified through the Authentic Pilates Method because it afforded her the opportunity to learn from the people who worked directly under Joseph Pilates. The rigorous year and a half of training gave her a great deal of insight into teaching styles and injury/illness problem solving that she could not have gotten with other, less rigorous Pilates programs. Since then, she has furthered her training with Anatomy and Physiology classes at USM, a year of studying the Alexander Technique, intensive study with master teachers Clare Dunphy and Amy Taylor Alpers, and an internship with David Reese, P.T., at Falmouth Physical Therapy. She has started her three year Master's Program with The Pilates Center in Boulder. She has also recently started her training in motherhood (the most rigorous training yet!) with the birth of her daughter in May 2009. Bethany believes that people who move their bodies are happier. According to Romana Krysanowska, who worked with Pilates for 30 years and was one of Bethany's master teachers, Pilates often quoted the German poet Schiller as saying, "It is the spirit which guides the body." The Pilates Method not only lengthens and tones muscles, it deepens the communication between the mind and the body. This connection has intrigued Bethany since she first started training. She finds that Pilates tones her body without the stress that she has experienced from working on rowing machines or treadmills. She knows that people can achieve total fitness without pushing their bodies to levels of great discomfort, and she is excited to mix challenge with fun in the sessions she teaches. What it means to be a PMA CPT: Bethany Mateosian is proud to announce that she has passed the exam to become a Certified Pilates Teacher through the Pilates Method Alliance. Since the Pilates industry is unregulated, anything can currently be called Pilates exercise. The PMA created a certification exam that covers safety, anatomy, and basic Pilates knowledge to create a baseline standard in the industry. This standard helps protect the safety of our clients as well as the professionals who work hard to maintain the integrity of the Pilates method. "Bethany has skillfully used encouragement and challenge to help me achieve a level of competence that I wouldn't have thought was possible. A formerly reluctant exerciser, I actually look forward to my Pilates classes, which she makes rewarding and fun. During the holiday hiatus, I actually missed going to class. I also noticed that my Seasonal Affective Disorder symptoms worsened during that time, and that as soon as classes resumed, my mood improved. I'm so thrilled to have finally found an exercise routine that makes me feel better in both body and mind." Rebecca E., Strategist/Writer