PMA Educates: Hip to be Strong

Join Angelie Melzer Saturday, November 22nd and discover how to build resilience, strength, and refined control in one of the body’s most important movement centers—the hip-lumbar complex. This workshop focuses on integrating the hips and lower back through targeted exercises that challenge stability across multiple planes of movement.

Participants will explore how to:
• Strengthen the deep stabilizers of the hips and lumbar spine.
• Enhance coordination between mobility and control for safer, more efficient movement.
• Apply dynamic progressions that prepare clients for everyday activities, athletic performance, and injury prevention.

Through guided practice, hands-on cueing, and layered progressions, you’ll gain tools to improve hip-lumbar integration in both static and functional contexts. Whether you’re working with clients managing lower back discomfort, athletes looking for performance gains, or movers seeking better alignment and flow, this workshop provides practical strategies to create lasting stability and freedom of movement.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
• Analyze hip-lumbar biomechanics and identify how the Reformer can be used to support and challenge stability.
• Apply spring resistance strategically to train eccentric control, core engagement, and dynamic alignment of the hips and spine.
• Teach multi-planar Reformer exercises that integrate rotation, lateral flexion, and extension for balanced stability.
• Modify and progress Reformer sequences to meet the needs of clients with lower back

Key Takeaways:
• Understand the biomechanics of hip-lumbar integration.
• Experience multi-planar exercises to strengthen and stabilize.
• Learn cueing and progression strategies for diverse populations.

This workshop offers 2 NPCP CECs for in-person attendance ONLY

Angelie is the CEO of TEAM Pilates® and Ascend Mentoring, a Principle Educator for Balanced Body Education and an International presenter. She is an NCPT® through the National Pilates Certification Program, Pilates Method Alliance member and a licensed GYROTONIC® , GYROKINESIS® practitioner with over thirty years in the industry. With both second generation classical (Romana lineage) and contemporary therapeutic approaches, she has become well known for her work with Scoliosis and Chronic Pain. Angelie will be releasing her first book in early 2026.

Angelie enjoys spreading the love of Pilates and movement worldwide, certifying and educating new instructors on how to work with specialty clients, run a new business, stay focused and avoid burnout. Making others successful and maintaining a high-quality of standard for the industry is her passion!

Angelie began studying Pilates back in 1988 due to severe Scoliosis. As a result of her practice, she had a successful career as a professional Ballet dancer, hired at the age of 14 as a company member with Colorado Ballet, she continues to perform today, and is still surgery-free! Angelie has performed and taught with numerous professional ballet companies throughout the United States including Colorado Ballet, Milwaukee Ballet, Aspen/Santa Fe Ballet, New Mexico Ballet Company, Dayton Ballet, and Kansas City Ballet.
Angelie was awarded Woman Of the Year by the YWCA in 2004. She has co-created and written several courses, manuals and DVDs, to include Balanced Body Continuing Education courses, a Pre and Post Natal Pilates DVD and Movement Therapy for Children Course Manual. She worked as an adjunct professor for the University of Missouri and University of New Mexico, as well as guest faculty at Texas A&M.

Angelie was one of the first individuals to take the PMA National Certification and obtain the NCPT status. She was originally certified by the PhysicalMind Institute in New York City in 1999 and became a Certifying Instructor/Teacher Trainer for them in the spring of 2003, certifying numerous Pilates practitioners throughout the World. In addition, she has completed multiple Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Trainings with Core Dynamics under the tutelage of Michelle Larssen and Balanced Body Education. She is the owner/founder of Team Pilates®. Team Pilates® offers numerous continuing education courses in the Pilates Method, Pilates Movement Therapy for Children, Bosates® and other important topics in the industry. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resource Management and holds additional certifications as a Strain Counter Strain Practitioner, Personal Trainer from ACE, Aerobics and Fitness Association of America and NASM.