Local Chapters for the Pilates Method Alliance

The Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) is holding a big teacher training summit in Dallas this weekend. They will be discussing the important, and somewhat contentious, instructor certification issue. James Henderson, PhD., and Psychometrician for the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA) will speaking at the summit. I, for one, am very interested in the outcome and look forward to reporting on it.

In the meantime, Pilates-Pro.com reports that in a recent letter from executive director, Elizabeth Anderson, the PMA has announced its intention to support the formation of local chapters of the organization.

The PMA has hired Andrea Jeanfreau to head up the local chapters project. Anderea is a PMA member and a BASI trained Pilates instructor who has executive experience with setting up local chapters under a parent organization.

The letter about the PMA local chapters finishes up:

Each chapter will establish its own goals and objectives designed to recognize and support Pilates professionals at the local level.

If you're interested in starting a PMA Chapter in your area, please contact PMA Membership Manager, Denise Dixon, to express your interest. Write to denised@pilatesmethodalliance.org

So there you have it. Local chapters sounds like a great idea to me. I'm looking forward to more information on this from the PMA, and seeing how the local chapter idea plays out. Thanks to Pilates-Pro for reprinting the PMA announcement for those of us who didn't get ours yet (sniff).