ABOUT US
Karen Waugh-Raphael
I am a 3rd Generation Teacher.
Lineage: Joseph Pilates > Jay Grimes > Wade Edwell > Me
I discovered Pilates while living in Melbourne. Upon moving to country Victoria, I began my training to be a teacher through Breathe Education. At the same time, I was fortunate to find my current mentor, Wade Edwell, who is Australia's only 2nd Generation teacher trained by Jay Grimes, who himself, trained and worked with Joseph Pilates.
Initially apprenticed to Wade and his partner Trevor at their studio Proper Pilates, I eventually began working with them. In time I grew to become a leading member of their team, responsible for assisting Wade in education workshops and seminars for teachers and trainees.
I am still involved with Proper Pilates and remain a mentee of Wade. I continue to assist him in training when in Victoria. I have also had the special pleasure of training with Vintage Pilates, home of Jay Grimes, as well as attending their international workshops in Dubai and Los Angeles.
Karen's Qualifications
SARAH MOORHOUSE
Pilates Instructor
Sarah first turned to Pilates as a one of the few ways she could continue to stay moving. As a former Officer in the Army Medical Corps and a distance runner with hyper-mobility issues, Sarah had sustained numerous injuries and everything she tried seemed to cause pain and eventually injury. Within a few weeks of Pilates training, Sarah was hooked.
In 2011 Sarah studied Contemporary Pilates and then taught in both small group
classes and gyms around Melbourne. But it wasn’t until 9 years later, when she started training with Karen, that Sarah realised how much more there was to learn
and practice in the Classical Pilates stream. Sarah went back to study and now holds a Certificate IV in the Authentic Pilates Method. She has trained with Karen for nearly 3 years and, like her incredible teacher and mentor, is passionate about helping people of all ages and abilities find their most stable, connected and flexible bodies, both within the studio and in daily life.
Sarah has also started training regularly under the guidance of Wade Edwell
of Proper Pilates.
Sarah's Qualifications
About Joseph Pilates
Born in Germany in 1883, Joseph Pilates grew to be a circus performer, fitness trainer and a boxer.
The beginnings of what would eventually become his regimented exercise system, Contrology, started to take shape while he was interred as a prisoner of the allies during WW1. While encamped on the Isle of Man he led many of his fellow detainees through his exercise programs and at the end of the war his camp notably suffered far less death and illness than others around them.
Later he moved to New York city, where he opened an exercise studio next to his apartment where he taught his Contrology method. Over time the system grew to encompass more equipment/apparatus and was refined. Ultimately Joe developed Contrology into a system of exercises that challenged the body while offering it tailored exercises to help individuals with their specific physicals needs.
Joseph died in the late 1960's and his work has been kept alive and carried forward through a string of lineages and by the few teachers who extensively trained.