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Maho Ogawa 

Pilates Instructor 

suisomovement@gmail.com

 

Maho is a movement artist and Pilates practitioner originally from Japan. Having sustained repeated ankle sprains and lower back pain from dance training in childhood, she looked for a better way to use her body and found Pilates the most suitable for its functionality.

Maho is a Kane School graduate and has taught Pilates in Tokyo, Japan for 5 years and in New York since relocating in 2011. She teaches Pilates to both English and Japanese speaking clients while presenting her experimental performances at venues in New York and Japan. Maho has worked as an interpreter for Japanese Pilates teachers at Rebekah Rotstein's Buff Bones workshop in New York in 2017. She has experience working with conditions such as scoliosis, hip replacements, spinal fusion, and pre/post natal clients at Equinox West 92 St, elevate, the space pilates studio.Her private sessions are carefully tailored to individuals of any body type, age, and activity. She looks forward to sharing the delight of healthy movement through Pilates. 

 

Certifications
  • Pilates Mat / Apparatus Certification (Kane School of Core Integration )
  • Knee and Hip (Pilates Method Alliance)
  • Unraveling Scoliosis (Pilates Method Alliance )
  • Pre / Post Natal Exercises (Teri Lee Steele)
  • Pilates Exercise Through Pregnancy (Pilates Method Alliance)
  • Wonky Bodies: Exploring Hyper mobility (Pilates Method Alliance)

 

Teaching experiences since 2006: 

the space pilates studio (NY)

Equinox West 92nd street (NY)

New Leaf Yoga & Pilates (NY)

Perfect Posture Pilates (NY) 

Gold’s Gym (Tokyo)

Yomiuri Culture Center (Tokyo)

Boxmen Dance Academy (Tokyo)

Matsuzakaya Culture School, Ginza&Ueno (Tokyo)