Christie Partelow
Polestar Pilates Comprehensive Instructor
Certifications:
- Polestar Pilates Comprehensive Certification
- Reiki 1 Certification
Languages: English
About Christie
Christie Partelow is certified through the comprehensive study of Polestar Pilates under Leila Kester, offering instruction on mat and all apparatus. Born in New York, Christie brings 20 years of professional dance experience to her Pilates teaching, having performed with prestigious companies including Netherlands Dans Theatre, Les Grands Ballets Canadiens, and Complexions Contemporary Ballet. In addition, Christie is a Reiki healer as well as a dance teacher and rehearsal director of both professional companies and pre-professional dancers.
A Dancer's Journey with Pilates
As a professional dancer currently freelancing (most recently with Netherlands Dans Theatre), Christie has explored and discovered all kinds of movement and treatment throughout her dance career, as well as during childhood through competitive swimming and tennis. This extensive experience gives her deep understanding of how the body and mind operate, adapt, and sometimes break down under a variety of demands.
Throughout her dancing career, Christie received and sought the support of Pilates in various forms:
- Working with Physical Therapists on both mat and machinery after surgeries/injuries as well as during illness
- Taking group lessons for maintenance and injury prevention
- Training with private specialized instructors for performance enhancement
This personal experience with Pilates, from rehabilitation to high level performance conditioning, informs Christie’s teaching.
Christie's Teaching Approach
Christie has worked with clients of all ages and experience ranges – some with various ailments or recoveries, others with high-level training needs, and some who simply wish to exercise and feel well.
Christie loves to use the Pilates method to work with individuals, incorporating any other beneficial movement methods and body knowledge to help each person deepen the relationship to their own being through a mind-body connection. Her goal is to improve function, through strength, mobility, and quality, in order to gain freedom.
All are invited and more than welcome.
What Clients Love About Christie
Clients appreciate Christie’s creativity, depth of movement knowledge, and her ability to see movement patterns with a trained dancer’s eye. Her experience recovering from her own surgeries and injuries creates empathy and practical approaches through her understanding of the rehabilitation process.
Dancers and performing artists particularly value working with someone who personally understands their unique physical demands. Meanwhile, non-dancers benefit from Christie’s ability to make both simple and sophisticated movement principles accessible and beneficial for everyone through clear descriptions and appropriate progressions.
