Gaia

I needed to find something more productive, and to pep up my daily life as a full-time housewife when my husband and I were living in a small town in Germany in 2016. One day, I was taking a walk near my house, and saw one place with the sign “Pilates”. I walked in and tried to speak with the owner but our talk couldn’t last more than five minutes because of our language barrier. After that, I began to look up what Pilates is and it didn’t take so long for me to become interested in it. Unfortunately, however, I couldn’t find a place where I could learn Pilates, and we had to leave Germany in 2018.

Now we moved to Sicily,Italy, AND I decided to look for a studio where I can learn Pilates more actively! After a while, I found one instructor, and her name is Gaia. She worked for a gym in my area, and she was teaching Mat Pilates. She was very friendly, and tried to make me understand our lessons very hard even though we had a language difficulty here and there. I truly LOVED our lessons. Every time I saw Gaia, I realized how much my body was improving. I had a private lesson with her for about 1.5 years until Covid happened. 

I was able to awake my body and mind slowly which felt amazing.

This is my initial interaction with Pilates, and the point where I wanted to explore more of Pilates as well.