The Bay Club Team

Elizabeth Larkam, director of Pilates & Beyond

Elizabeth is internationally recognized as an innovator of Mind Body movement techniques for fitness, clinical, entertainment, arts, and academic settings. She transforms Pilates techniques by taking a Feldenkrais approach to mat and apparatus vocabulary, infusing core control with rotation, arcs, and spirals to create movement that is functional, healing, and aesthetically pleasing.

Elizabeth began her study of Pilates techniques in 1985 while teaching dance at Stanford University. A guild-certified Feldenkrais practitioner, certified Gyrotonic® and Gyrokinesis™ instructor, Elizabeth received her bachelor’s and master's education at Stanford University. She is also a certified OM yoga instructor. Elizabeth has worked as a Pilates and Dancemedicine Specialist with the San Francisco Ballet, Cirque de Soleil, and at the Center for Sports Medicine at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital. While director of the Saint Francis program, she developed Pilates protocols for rehabilitation of a number of orthopedic and spine diagnoses.

Elizabeth is also a lecturer at the University of San Francisco in exercise and sports science, a mind-body spokesperson for the American Council on Exercise, and a Reebok Master Trainer. She is a contributor to and member of the Advisory Board of PilatesStyle. Since 1992 Elizabeth has created 30 instructional videos/DVDs for fitness, rehabilitation, and home markets. As program director of Balanced Body Pilates, she created the instructional video series that launched the Pilates Allegro Reformer. She also created the Mat with Roller & Ring program, Mat with Rotator Discs, Reebok Core Pilates, BOSU Pilates, and PilatesPerformance.