Pippa also works as an actor, a writer and a choreographer. She has worked in theatres across the country from the Stratford and Shaw Festivals to more alternative venues. She has created her own theatre movement pieces to critical acclaim and has appeared in various television and film projects. She currently serves as the theatre movement instructor at Ryerson University and has been teaching pilates for the last five years in studios throughout the city. Her own physical training began very early with classical dance and gymnastics, later she trained in contemporary dance which has remained an abiding passion. It was her extensive theatre training that introduced her to the various movement techniques which have most influenced her teaching at present. She became extremely interested in alignment and work which can serve to re pattern a student's physical behaviour to bring her or him back to greater freedom and ease in movement, the freedom we experienced naturally as children. She was exposed to many years of Alexander training, the Feldenkreis technique and some Bartenieff developmental fundamentals. As a result her teaching incorporates many images and ideas from these techniques. She hopes to not only introduce her students to a satisfying effective means of accessing the core muscles of the body, but to do so in order to find much greater physical freedom in one's day to day life. Finally Pippa was exposed to yoga and discovered it's extraordinary benefits most especially the focus on breathe as the center and source of all energy and physical movement. She now integrates yoga work into her class with an emphasis on core initiation and stability. Being an actor and choreographer Pippa also greatly appreciates the added pleasures a student can receive from a class which feels aesthetically pleasing. She teaches with as sense of flow, rhythm and grace. She hopes ultimately to leave a student feeling nourished by the pleasure of engaging deeply within their own rich physical landscape.