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.”
