Louise Taube is a passionate Pilates practitioner and former professional dancer.

Louise has worked for many years as a professional contemporary dancer and choreographer and travelled 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 scolarship from the Foundation For Young Australians. A knee injury quickly halted her dance career and she directed her focus to pilates, which helped her injury to heal.

After accelerating her career in Pilates, the development of a bulging disc in her lumbar spine (between L5 and S1) prompted Louise to completely re-evaluate what she has learned and current training methods. To facilitate this evaluation, Louise furthered her studies in pilates as well as researched 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, Polestar, and Certificate IV in Pilates Instruction with Pilates International Pty Ltd. She also holds her Certificate IV in Fitness and First Aid Level II.

Master Trainer

Louise has more than a decade of refining her practice in Pilates. 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. Louise integrates all that she believes in into the program design, facilitation and training for Pilates instructors at The Melbourne School of Sport and Recreation Management where she is a Master Trainer. Programs include Level One and Two Reformer, and Level Two Mat.

level one reformer

level two mat

Specialty and Strengths

Louise specializes in accelerating technique for performance in dance, dance injury prevention and rehabilitation, (specifically knees), 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.