This is the place to begin or enhance
your career as a fitness professional.

Pacific NW Pilates is the licensed training and certification center for STOTT PILATES® in Oregon and Washington. We offer a wide array of instructor certification programs
at our studio in Portland, Oregon and at off-site locations throughout Washington, northern California, Montana, Idaho, Colorado and Utah.

We also offer the country’s most comprehensive and forward-thinking range of STOTT PILATES courses for injury rehabilitation and therapeutic conditioning.

Pacific NW Pilates' co-founder and Master Instructor Trainer, Melanie Byford-Young, BHSc. PT, updated the entire rehab curriculum for STOTT PILATES International in 2007 based upon the techniques she has been using
in our studio since we opened in 2001. The new rehab training curriculum and DVDs (that Melanie appears in) will be available from STOTT PILATES worldwide in January 2008. Check out Melanie's workshops for more information about the programs she teaches through our studio.

In addition to training pilates instructors, our Portland studio hosts a full schedule of mat and equipment-based classes and private sessions for regular fitness clients. Our three co-founders and owners, Jean Leavenworth, Leslie Braverman and Melanie Byford-Young, are all Instructor Trainers, but they each work with regular clients every day, making them adept at translating the structured STOTT PILATES curriculum into real-world results that help people.

Our mission is to provide a learning environment that
is open-minded and relaxed, yet innovative and
open to growth and the exchange of ideas.