Bio:
Rael Isacowitz, MA is a world-renowned practitioner and teacher of Pilates. With over 30 years of Pilates achievement behind him, he is a prominent lecturer and teacher at symposiums, universities, colleges and studios around the globe.
Rael received his Bachelor of Education degree and teaching credentials from Israel's prestigious Wingate Institute, where he subsequently joined the teaching faculty. He later earned a Master of Arts degree in Dance from the University of Surrey, England.
Rael’s early Pilates teachers included Alan Herdman, and thereafter several of the first-generation Pilates teachers (known as the Elders). To Kathy Grant, Ron Fletcher, Romana Kryzanowska, Eve Gentry and Lolita San Miguel he owes the inspiration and friendship that have guided his career.
Rael has mastered all levels of the Pilates repertoire and is noted in the industry for his unique athleticism, his synthesis of body, mind and spirit and the passion of his teaching. In 1989, he founded Body Arts andScience International® (BASI Pilates), which has developed into one of the foremost Pilates education organizations in the world. At present BASI Pilates is represented in 20 countries and over 100 locations.
Rael has authored the definitive book on Pilates (Pilates, Human Kinetics), published a series of Movement Analysis Workbooks on all the Pilates apparatus, produced DVDs, designed the revolutionary Avalon® equipment and created Pilates Interactive™, groundbreaking and unprecedented Pilates software. Creativity, passion and energy suffuse Rael's work. Teaching Pilates is, for Rael, the ultimate gift.
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