Certified Master Pilates Trainer/Owner ~ Paula Coates

Paula has been teaching the Pilates method for over 17 years and has been in the fitness industry for over 20 years. She is a certified 2nd generation Pilates teacher and Lolita San Miguel Pilates master. This makes her part of an elite group of Pilates teachers because Lolita San Miguel is 1 of only 2 Pilates elders who were ever personally certified by Joseph Pilates himself.

Paula is always continuing her own training and has earned over 30 certifications and certificates in Pilates and yoga since her graduation from the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse. She is also a nationally certified yoga teacher, TRX certified and most recently in 2018 a certified and licensed YUR Back instructor. In addition to Lolita San Miguel, Paula has studied with some of the most talented modern Pilates teachers in the world including Mary Bowen, Alan Herdman, Madeline Black, Julian Littleford, Marie-Jose Blom, Elizabeth Larkem, Brent Anderson, Amy Alpers, Troy McCarty, Karen Clippinger, and Kelly Kane.

Truly passionate about her work, Paula has an innate ability to see what her clients need at each session, and uses an integrative approach with Pilates, biomechanics, and yoga to move the body accordingly. She works with doctors and physical therapists to help people with back problems, scoliosis, mastectomies, neurological disorders and various other issues, and also trains athletes and those who want to have a stronger core and more aligned body. Paula helps her clients achieve these goals through consistency and dedication to form and alignment. Her clients show her the amazing possibilities of the human body every day.

Paula Coates

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Certifications & Memberships:

Continuing Education Training:

  • Core Stability Advancements & Applications to Pilates Reformer
  • Pilates Progressions Based on Fascial Lines
  • Unwinding Scoliosis with Pilates
  • Pilates Plus Psyche
  • Pilates for Athletes: Creating Pilates programs for Strength & Grace
  • Assessing the Lumbar Spine & Pelvis on the Reformer & Chair
  • Pilates Sequences that Connect the Feet with the Ground & Spine
  • From the Sole of Foot to the Core of Body: Structure & Exercises
  • Getting to Know Your Rotator Cuff
  • Rotator Cuff Rehab
  • From Wrist to the Spine
  • Pilates for Athletes: a Show Down between Baseball Players & Male Ballet Dancers
  • Pilates for Seniors
  • The Psoas - Part 1 & Part 2
  • Build Your Arches
  • Footwork: the Pilates Fortune Teller
  • The Feet- the Foundation of Pilates
  • Twisted Mat with Fletcher Pilates: the Towelwork
  • The Sacred Sacrum
  • The First Session
  • The 3-D Spine

Certified & Licensed YUR Back Instructor
Yur® Back

~ New Location ~

bcentered training pilates studio

400 Security Blvd., Suite 4

Green Bay, WI 54313

(920) 227-5167