Our Team
โWe all deserve to move with freedom and ease. Helping people find the freedom and ease of movement is the reason I practice and teach Pilates. Reconnecting with our bodies, honoring the gift our bodies, is a profound healing experience and I hope to help people along that path.โ Caitlin Bovรฉe BA & Sci
At Pilates in Guelph, our team of diverse and talented instructors and support staff make your experience excellent.
Caitlin Bovแบฟe, Ba & Sc
Studio Director
I am a Pilates success story and that is the number 1 reason I teach, run and own Pilates in Guelph. I want everyone to have the benefit of Pilates for their own 'success' story.
I have been in the fitness world for close to 27 years. I started in mainstream fitness with a Group Fitness certification, Personal Trainer certification, and coaching team sports. My sister Ahme Bovee, opened a Pilates studio in Guelph in 2000 and I fell in love. Helping her at the studio, I eventually became fully trained on all equipment in 2003.
I augmented my Pilates training with a variety of related exercise and movement modalities: ACE personal trainer certification; Reiki levels 1 & 2; Dance therapy; Alexander Technique; and a full range of Pilates Mind/Body innovations with specialized focus on post rehabilitation training. I have had the pleasure to work with Margot McKinnon, Eric Franklin, Brent Anderson, Marie Jose Blow, Nora St John and numerous other expert in the movement fields. In 2007, I took over the studio and I began to teach for Body Harmonics.
I am fascinated by the intricate and detailed work of the Pilates exercises, and how profoundly simple exercises can relieve pain, restore movement, and speed recovery for our bodies and our minds. My goal is to continue to practice and teach Pilates and other movement therapies, to develop new innovations that empower myself and others to enjoy a life of body awareness, free movement and restorative practices.
Sarah Kelly
Sarah has been a Pilates instructor at Pilates In Guelph since 2008. Prior to joining the Pilates In Guelph team she had practiced Pilates for almost 10 years. After Sarah's first daughter was born with low muscle tone she became more interested in the neurological benefits of Pilates and was driven to discover a deeper understanding of the mechanics of movement.
Sarah enjoys teaching a variety of different classes and is inspired everyday by her clients to find new and innovative exercises to help them delve deeper into their inner strength and the power of their movements. She aims to not only challenge her clients to reach their individual goals but to also empower them to achieve real awareness on how they bodies move and to celebrate what their bodies can do.
Maeghan Russell
I joined PING in August of 2015 as a part time receptionist. I quickly felt the benefits of Pilates almost immediately. An MRI had showed 2 herniated discs in my lower back resulting in sciatica. Many years of massage therapy, physiotherapy and chiropractors never helped for more than a few days. The pain always came back.
I scheduled myself for 2 private sessions with Caitlin and began to take Mat classes weekly. After 1 month, my pain began to ease and it is now a rare occurrence. Pilates will now be a forever part of my life.
Taught under Caitlin, I have finished my Mat, Reformer and Cadillac Training and love teaching our clients in the studio rooms, not just seeing them at the front desk. Having mentors around me daily such as Sarah Kelly has only made me understand and put their expertise into action every class!
Nicole Bowes
What brought me to pilates ?
I came to pilates as an extension of physio. I had been active all my life and pain was stopping me from sports, and from fully loving daily life. Daily pain can be draining emotionally mentally and physically.
Why I love pilates ?
I fell in love with Pilates because it became a space that honoured the movements that my body could do well, and it taught me to stop just pushing through pain for the sake of exercise. It often takes more strength to move well. Pilates gives so many options to still move, with specific cues that take the strain out of movement. It honours my strength and builds me up.
How pilates has affected my life?
After each class I feel empowered both physically and mentally. I realized that all of the support my body needs to move is within me, I just need to connect with it.
I experienced first hand how learning good strategies of movement could translate to my daily life. I started to realize that when I lay in bed at the end of the day, flat on my back, there is no strain!
It has given me freedom to do things like carry my little one, and work in the garden on heavy jobs, without sacrificing my body.
I quickly fell in love with pilates. I fell so I love, that I knew I needed to learn more. I began taking teacher training. Fast forward almost 2 years later....
Iโve immersed myself in learning whatever I can. I have completed level 1,2 and 3, Oov training, prenatal, anatomy and more. I love learning more about my body and others bodies. I love watching people move. I love being able to help people move with greater ease.
We are all strong, but sometimes movement strategies can get in our way.
It is an honour to watch each body with its own uniqueness, unwind with breath and movement like a moving meditation.
It is a true honour to be part of an amazing community of positivity, growth and support.
Nicole Millard
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Larrissa Ferreras
Larissa's journey into Pilates began through her love of dance and movement. With over 24 years of competitive dance experience in multiple genres of dance, Larissa was led to explore Pilates to help overcome muscular imbalances in her body developed over the years of her intensive dance training.
Pilates allowed Larissa to link breathing, concentration on posture, and flowing movement to create efficient patterns of motion. Pilates creates a platform where you can improve muscle elasticity and joint mobility, while also reducing stress and having fun! Larissa believes that Pilates is key to a balanced body and mind - and most importantly, to a more balanced life.
Aiden Warren
Hey! I'm Aidan, and I have been teaching movement for 8 years now. I started off teaching Taekwondo through high school and university (I'm now a third Dan Black Belt). I attained my Body Harmonics Level 2 certification as of February 2023, and have been loving teaching at Pilates in Guelph since then!
I believe that Pilates is a powerful tool that allows a person to build strength, safety, and confidence in their body, helping reconnect to ease of movement, to joy, and to a sense of selfhood. I teach because I love movement, and having a job that allows me to share my love of movement with others makes me really happy.
I will be reentering my academic studies in the fall of 2023 with the long-term goal of working as a Physiotherapist, and am excited to continue teaching at Pilates in Guelph during the course of my degree!
Our other great instructors bios to comeโฆ
Erinn McQueen
Bronte Gray-Rochon
Issy Zaniolo