Holding professional membership with the Pilates Alliance Australasia, Louise Taube is a passionate pilates instructor and master teacher.

Louise has worked for many years as a professional contemporary dancer and choreographer and traveled around the world on several dance tours as well as studying dance film in New York at the New York Film Academy.   She received many grants during her dance career including a scholarship from the Foundation For Young Australians.   A knee injury quickly halted her dancing days and she directed her focus to Pilates, which helped her injury to heal.

After accelerating her career in Pilates, Louise furthered her studies as well as researcheing into spine pathologies, studying anatomy, and increasing her knowledge on the mechanics of the spine and associated injuries.       

Qualifications

Louise's Qualifications include: Associate Diploma Dance, Bachelor of Arts Dance, Post Grad in Choreography.   Her Pilates certificates include: STOTT PILATES, Polestar, Diploma in Pilates Instruction with Pilates International Pty Ltd, and Australian Pilates Method Association.   She also holds her Certificate IV in Fitness and First Aid Level II and qualifications for Teacher Training.

Master Trainer

Louise has more than a decade of refining her practice in Pilates.  She has designed and implemented mat and reformer courses for MSSRM (now MSAC   Institute of Training) since 2005.

She has lectured at NIDA in movement for actors in Sydney and also Melbourne University, and Rusden Deakin University for dance and movement.      

She has honed her teaching skills to include concepts of "The Therapeutic Touch - How to use your hands to help and to heal" by Dolores Krieger and the writings of Eric Franklin on using visual imagery to facilitate movement and body awareness.  

Specialty and Strengths

Louise specializes in accelerating technique for performance in dance, dance injury prevention and rehabilitation, (specifically knees and lower back), fitness, general rehabilitation, Pilates for pregnancy, runners, and lower back pain, (specifically disc bulges).

Strengths as an instructor include creating constantly changing and intelligently choreographed challenging classes, with dynamically flowing repertoire from stretching and strengthening to stabilizing exercises that develop muscular endurance, balance, abdominal strength and co-ordination.

Louise loves teaching and she loves training teachers!   She thrives off the satisfaction of helping others to realize their full kinesthetic potential.