Pilates Master Teacher
New York-born Lolita San Miguel celebrates in 2008 her 50th anniversary of practicing the Pilates Method of Body Conditioning. She received her first certification from Carola Trier, Joseph Pilates’s first disciple to open her first studio and then studied with Pilates himself.
Lolita holds the distinction of being one of the only two known practitioners to have been officially certified by Joseph and Clara Pilates and awarded degrees by the State University of New York to teach the Pilates Method.
She has also been certified by Polestar Pilates Education and was awarded a Gold Certificate by the Pilates Method Alliance. She is one of the five “Distinguished Elders” of the Pilates Method Alliance and a member of the Advisory Board of Pilates Style magazine.
After a distinguished career in dance–she was a soloist with the Metropolitan Ballet for over ten years and ballet mistress for Ballet Hispanico for three years, Lolita San Miguel moved with her husband to Puerto Rico in 1977, where she founded Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico–now Puerto Rico’s finest ballet company– and was its Artistic and Executive Director for 28 years. Ms San Miguel also founded Pilates y Mas, Inc. in Puerto Rico in 2000 to teach, train and certify teachers in association with Polestar Pilates Education. She retired from Ballet Concierto in 2004 to dedicate more time to teach, train and give conferences and seminars on the Pilates Method.
Ms San Miguel is in great demand throughout the United States, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, Asia, Australia and South America, and has international students and teachers come to train with her. Her DVD, “Lolita Shares Her Pilates, Mat I,” is a brisk seller and she has added three new DVDs to her “Lolita Shares Her Pilates ” series: “Reformer I,” “Reformer II” and “Lolita ’s Pilates BodyWalk.”
Ms San Miguel has her permanent residence in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.
For further information, please call 561-267-3966.
