Teacher Trainers and Training Programs

SANTA FE & Core Dynamics Pilates

Ruth Alpert

Ruth Alpert was raised in New York City where she received extensive professional dance training and performed with postmodern choreographers. She has been studying and teaching various movement re-education techniques since 1976, including the work of Lulu Sweigard, Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Susan Klein and Emilie Conrad. 

Ruth has been a certified practitioner of the Trager®Approach since 1987. She was trained in pilates by Michele Larsson in 1992, to work specifically with her injured clients, and has been part of Michele’s teacher training program since its beginning. Ruth is also certified as a GYRONTONIC® teacher since 2002, and currently is in the Alexander Technique teacher training program. Ruth was instrumental in the creation of Momentum Studio in Santa Fe were she was active in its management for the first 5 years.

Since 2001 Ruth has taught both at Active Recovery and in the Core Dynamics Teacher Training Program, and continues her private practice in Trager®.

Celia Hulton

Celia was born in London, England and first studied Pilates as a dance student with Alan Herdman in the early 1970's. Throughout her 15 year dance career with London Contemporary Dance Theatre, she continued her Pilates studies with Gordon Thompson, Dreas Reyneke and Hana Jones among others. Celia moved to New Mexico and began to teach and train with Michele Larsson in 1990 at The Pilates Institute.

Celia trained in GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESES® in 1997 and became a GYROTONIC® Master Trainer in 2000. She is the director of GYROTONIC® Santa Fe and conducts GYROTONIC® trainings and Pilates workshops both in the United States and Europe.
Celia continues to instruct for Michele's Core Dynamics Pilates Teacher Training Program and at the Santa Fe studio, specializing in whiplash and chronic injuries and is also a licensed Massage Therapist.
Web site: www.gyrotonicsantafe.com

Michele Larsson

Michele Larsson, founder of Core Dynamics, is a former dancer and choreographer, who trained in NYC at the Juilliard School of Music. In 1981, she received a BFA in Holistic Health and Dance Theater from Antioch University.

In 1982, after 12 years of study with Eve Gentry, Ms. Larsson began teacher training under her guidance. She spent months working with Ms. Gentry, observing classes and individual clients, studied anatomy, kinesiology and did student teaching. She has also taken workshops with Carola Trier, Bruce King, Kathleen Stanford-Grant and Ron Fletcher. She then worked as an associate teacher with Eve Gentry for 10 years prior to the founding of the Institute for the Pilates Method in 1991. Ms. Larsson served as the director of training for the Institute and put together their first teacher training program. She developed videos and other products for the Institute before leaving to begin Core Dynamics.

Ms. Larsson directs the Core Dynamics Pilates Teacher Program as well as teaching Advanced Workshops worldwide.