Alithea Meyer
Founder of Center Flow Pilates and certified instructor with 5 years experience teaching Pilates
was once a nationally ranked gymnast until a dehabilitating back injury forced an early retirement. After numerous attempts
with conventional rehablilitation,she found a cure through Pilates. Eager to share her experience of wellness with a desire
to help others, she discovered The Pilates Center; a world renowned teaching facility in Boulder, Colorado. Upon
her completion of the 1 year (900 hr) extensive teacher training program with second generation students of Joseph
Pilates and students of Romana Kryzanowski Kathy Grant and Eve Gentry, she took her skills and knowledge to California
where she taught for three years while performing Aerial Dance throughout the country. Ready to open a studio with
her own vision, she moved to Portland, Oregan and opened Center Flow Pilates, located on NW 23rd Ave. Alithea remains active
in continuing education courses and is a current member of The Pilates Method Alliance. Her approach is to connect the
mind to the body and breath to correct and maintain balance within.
SARAH J. HUMPREY
After graduating with her B.S. degree in psychology from Drexel University in Philadelphia,
where she had been a dancer, Sarah sought to find a way to continue to enjoy the experience of the body in movement.
She found and began training in Pilates in early 2000 at Body Precision. By the end of the year, she was so passionate
for this method of movement she enrolled in their extensive teacher-training program. After almost two full years of
dedicated study, Sarah completed the training program, became a full-time teacher and has been ever since. As a certified
teacher, she has taught at several different studios, working with all ages and body types from professional athletes, to
dancers, to those seeking injury rehabilitation or those just wanting a deeper body awareness. She also spent a year
as a Trainee advisor for those studying to be a teacher of the Pilates method at the studio where she had trained. She has
spent time studying with various teacher of the Pilates method over the years as well as studying other movement modalities
such as Yoga, Gyrotonics, and Continuum. In addition to movement study, she has enhanced her knowledge of the body and its
innate healing abilities through the study of various body therapies and energy work such as Shiatsu, Myofascial Release,
Reiki and a year at Barbara Brennan School of Healing. During this past year Sarah took time off to experience her own body
as it went through pregnancy, birth, and recovery. She has returned to the world of teaching Pilates with new found knowledge
of the body’s natural abilities and needs through the childbirth process. Sarah is dedicated and passionate about
teaching Pilates. She wants to bring a more fulfilling experience of the body to anyone who wants to have more joy in
their physical body…as Joseph Pilates said, “Physical fitness is the first requisite of happiness.”
