MEGAN
Megan Katz
Pilates Instructor | Movement Educator | Somatic Movement Practitioner
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Megan discovered Pilates in 2010, and it gave her something years of yoga and other movement practices had not: genuine strength, stability, and connection to center. As a hypermobile person living with chronic back and neck pain, the relief was almost immediate — but pain relief was only the beginning. Pilates brought her deeper into a lifelong inquiry into how we inhabit our bodies, how we move, and what gets in the way.
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Her teaching is shaped by an unusually wide range of training in somatic and trauma-informed practices, meditation, nervous system regulation, yoga, family mediation, and Nonviolent Communication, as well as academic backgrounds in anthropology and art that inform how she thinks about bodies, movement, and meaning. She brings all of it into the studio: depth, curiosity, and patient attention to detail.
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Megan’s goal is to help clients move through life with greater stability, ease, and connection — especially those who haven’t always found their footing in traditional fitness settings.
Pilates Training
2023
University of Wisconsin-Madison Pilates Certification Program
Advanced Pilates Studies— 100 Hours
Movement Insights
Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training — 325 Hours
2019
Movement Insights
Mat Pilates Teacher Training — 100 Hours
2014
Certifications and Advanced Training
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CoreAlign Level I
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Primitive Reflex Integration, Levels I & II
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Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level I — Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, 93 Hours
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500-Hour Alignment Yoga Teacher Training
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Nonviolent Communication International Intensive Training — Center for Nonviolent Communication
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Certificate in Family Mediation — University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Education
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University of Wisconsin-Madison
Masters of Fine Arts, Time-Based Art
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Arts, Anthropology
Princeton University
Bachelor of Arts, Comparative Literature
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Teaching Approach
Megan approaches the body as an intelligent, interconnected system — shaped by lived experience and capable of real change. Her teaching creates space for clients to slow down, notice, and come back into communication with themselves: to build not just strength, but genuine awareness of how they move and why.
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She works with patient attention to detail, meeting each person where they are and trusting in the power of small adjustments to shift the whole system. Her training in Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Primitive Reflex Integration, and Nonviolent Communication informs an approach that takes the nervous system into account as well as the muscles.
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The result is a practice that feels both rigorous and deeply supportive.
Great fit for...
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Returning to movement from physical therapy
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New to Pilates
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Hypermobility or chronic pain
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Building movement confidence
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Trauma-sensitive or nervous-system-aware practice
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Refining technique
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Long-term consistency
Personal Interests
Outside of teaching, Megan enjoys contra dancing, gardening, biking, cooking, foraging for wild foods, meditation, music, and practices that explore the relationship between body, emotion, and meaning.