Shari Berkowitz Workshop Weekend

Shari Berkowitz, founder of The Vertical Workshop, will be joining us as a guest—a special opportunity to learn from one of the most influential teachers in the international Pilates world.

Shari’s teaching combines a deep understanding of the classical exercises with a clear, functional, and biomechanically grounded approach.

Over the course of this weekend, she will offer a series of workshops with different thematic focuses, each exploring specific aspects of the Pilates method in depth: body awareness, stretching, historical exercises, and the countless variations embedded within the classical repertoire. Let’s play!

Saturday 12.9.2026

9:00 – 10:00 Mat Class

10:30 – 13:30 Stretching – Increase Range of Motion

Has stretching helped you either increase your range of motion or release your tension of tight muscles? They say it will and should, but it hasn’t. Why not? Is it that you’re not doing it enough? No. That’s not it at all. You’re doing what you’ve been told, but it doesn’t work. Let’s get to what does work! In this workshop, we’ll discuss what stretching really is, what really increases range of motion and relieves muscular tension and why what you’ve been doing doesn’t work. AND… then we’ll work.

14:30 – 17:30 Archival Mat and Standing Exercises

There are many more versions of Mr. Pilates’ exercises than we see today. Variations, modification, combinations of multiple exercises in one! Fascinating, challenging and all the rest! These versions ought to be living, breathing exercises for those who need the modification or challenge! Experience this material, then teach it so we never lose track of these great exercises!

Sunday 13.9.2026

9:00 – 10:00 Mat Class

10:30 – 13:30 Proproception and Interoception

Where are you in space? How do you know without looking in the mirror or needing hands-on? How do your clients know? In The Vertical Workshop, our method works to develop both your sense of your body in space and what’s going on in the inside.

14:30 – 17:30 Variations to the Max!

What about the amazing variations on all of the Intermediate and Advanced exercises that you and your clients can work on to play, deepen and make the most of a long life of Pilates? That’s what this workshop is all about! These are all classical variations with a few Shari Berkowitz Specials! Nearly every exercise has a way to advance without even having to learn a new exercise! Let’s play!