Eliana Uretsky

Work Experience

2012-present Teach ZHealth, Pilates and yoga at Zoom Fitness in San Diego as well as subbing at Trinity Fitness in San Carlos. Continuing to teach periodic Authentic Movement workshops in San Diego.

2008-2012 Taught Pilates on equipment at Pilates Plus on Bankers Hill, Tilcia Studios in Pacific Beach, and Pilates RX in Mission Hills. Taught yoga classes at Fitness on the Move in Mira Mesa.

2006-2010 Moved from the Bay Area to San Diego and developed a home Pilates/yoga/somatics business, as well as teaching classes. Created Authentic Movement San Diego with Jessica Radulovich, teaching partner.

2003-2006 Extensive global travel and training in Permaculture sustainable design work, while teaching Pilates, yoga, and Body-Mind Centering.

1997-2002: Owned, developed, and taught at Center Strength, a rehabilitation and physical conditioning center in Berkeley with nine practitioners. Center Strength offers Pilates-based physical training with equipment, Physical Therapy, Middendorf Breath Therapy, Feldenkrais, and other modalities of movement and hands-on work.

1986-2001: Taught movement, hands-on, and voice workshops and classes at universities, yoga and retreat centers, bodywork schools, a prison, dojos, arts centers, and clinics in the U.S. (Massachussetts, Montana, Oregon, Hawaii, and widely in CA), Costa Rica, England, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, and Thailand.

1990-2000: Coached dance and music performance groups in the Bay Area.

1995-1998: On the administrative and teaching staff of the four-year California modular program of the School for Body-Mind Centering.

1994-5: Edited Wisdom of the Body Moving, by Linda Hartley, a book about Body-Mind Centering published by North Atlantic Press.

1992-4: Pilates instructor at A Body of Work studio in San Francisco.

1981-1994: Maintained a private practice in Oakland and then Albany, CA, transitioning from massage therapy to movement therapy. Worked with a wide range of clientele, from chiropractors’ referrals of people in acute or chronic pain, to clients wanting to explore the resource of body for creative/artistic reasons.

1991-1993: Taught a weekly movement/bodywork/creativity class at FCI Dublin, a federal women’s prison, as part of a holistic health program.

1986-88: “Commuted” to Boston four times yearly to see expressive therapy clients and teach sound and movement workshops.

1982-1988: Worked as massage therapist in private practice and at Piedmont Springs spa  in Oakland, CA.

Education

2015 Received three AS degrees in Horticulture.

2013-15 Completed five certifications in ZHealth brain-based training.

2009-2010 Completed 200 hour Yoga Alliance teacher certification at The Willows studio in Encinitas, in the Anusara tradition.

2008 Completed AA degree in general studies at Cuyamaca College, graduating Phi Theta Kappa.

2006-2010 Student at Grossmont, Cuyamaca, and Southwestern Colleges, working on three degrees.

1993-2002 Pilates continuing education: Intensive studies with Michele Larson, Nora St. John, Mercy Sidbury, and Jean Claude West. Much of this training was rehabilitation-focused.

1990-2008 Yoga Training: Primarily Iyengar style. Extensive studies and co-teaching (Body-Mind Centering) with Donna Farhi, and strongly influenced by Donald Moyer, Rodney Yee, Angela Farmer, Amanda McMaine-Smith, and Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. Paticipated in the Teacher Training program at the Yoga Room in Berkeley, CA and taught in Donna Farhi’s teacher training in New Zealand.

1996-2002 and 1985-6: Student of Middendorf breath work (hands-on and movement training widely known and used in the therapeutic and arts worlds in Europe). Completed four-year Practitioner training program in 2000.

1992-3: Study, internship, and Pilates Method certification through the (then) original Pilates Institute in Santa Fe (now the PhysicalMind Institute), including a six month internship and subsequent employment at Madeleine Black’s San Francisco studio, A Body of Work.

1990-1995: Training in Authentic Movement and participation in weekly practice group.

1991: Body-Mind Centering® Teacher certification, and Registered Movement Therapist qualification. (International Movement Therapy Association).

1989: Body-Mind Centering® Practitioner Certification after four years of training. Requirements for certification as a Practitioner were extensive and included for-credit university courses in Anatomy, Physiology, and Kinesiology. Body-Mind Centering® is an experiential and rigorous voyage through the body systems and the underlying human developmental movement patterns through touch, movement, and voice.

1988-1993: Cranial-Sacral studies with Upledger Institute, Hugh Milne, and Colorado Cranial Institute.

1985-1991: Intensive study of Continuum movement, breath, and sound work.

1982-2006: Courses in a wide range of bodywork techniques, including Chi Nei Tsang, Applied Motor Control, myofascial release, Reiki, Foot Reflexology, Rosen Method, lymph drainage, and much more.

1981: Massage and Bodywork Certification from Gefion School in Berkeley.

Movement Training 1974-present also includes extensive training in Contact Improvisation, ballet, Aikido, Continuum Movement, Skinner Release Technique, Alexander Technique, Aikido, T’ai Chi and Chi Kung, ballroom dance, and Argentine tango.

Undergraduate studies began at Goddard College in Vermont in 1974, with an emphasis on Early Childhood Education and music. They continued at Longy school of music in Cambridge, Laney College, College of Alameda in California, and include an AA degree from Cuyamaca College in 2007.