Joy George, Owner & Principal Teacher
Joy George is a second-generation Authentic Pilates™ Teacher and a former Teacher Trainer for the New York Pilates Studio. A skilled Pilates and movement educator, she brings more than thirty years of experience training athletes, dancers, celebrities, and clients ages 8 to 101. She completed her first apprenticeship and certification under Joseph Pilates’ protégé Romana Kryzanowska at the Pilates Studio in New York, and later completed a second certification with Romana and her daughter Sari at Romana’s Pilates (Drago’s Gym) in New York.
Joy was first introduced to Pilates as a dancer in 1978, and has been teaching Pilates since 1993. She has logged more than 35,000 hours teaching the Authentic Pilates Method and is dedicated to maintaining and teaching the original system of exercises and philosophies developed by Joseph H. Pilates.
A perpetual student, she travels regularly throughout the year to continue her education through training opportunities with many distinguished teachers of the classical Pilates method, as well as esteemed teachers from a wide variety of Pilates lineages. She also attends seminars and conferences for sports medicine, personal training/functional movement, health & wellness coaching, and nutrition.
Joy’s background and training include more than 25 years as a State Licensed Massage Therapist and Reflexologist, certified by the National Board for Therapeutic Massage and Bodywork, with a specialty Certification in Orthopedic Massage. She also worked as a Licensed Health Coach and Certified Sports & Exercise Nutrition Specialist, an ACSM-Certified Exercise Physiologist, and a Personal Trainer, Certified by both the American College of Sports Medicine and the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA-CPT). She is also a Certified FMS (Functional Movement Screen) specialist and is certified in TRX™ Suspension Training.
A former professional dancer and NIKE-sponsored fitness spokesperson, with more than forty-five years’ experience in the health and fitness industry, Joy’s background includes extensive training in exercise physiology, kinesiology, strength and conditioning, post-rehab fitness, nutrition, and stress management, as well as practical experience in health club, sports medicine, physical therapy, and hospital settings.
She holds a Master’s degree in Psychology and a Master of Fine Arts degree in painting. In addition to teaching Pilates, she is a practicing artist. Her paintings and drawings focus mainly on studies of the human figure and the body in motion. See JoyGeorgeFineArt.com