Amy Havens

Founder
AMY HAVENS PILATES

Amy Havens Amy is a mover, a thinker and passionate about movement education. She was a dancer and chose to focus on her Pilates career after experiencing a hip injury while performing in San Francisco. She has been teaching for 28 years with certificates of completion from many programs - The PhysicalMind/Madeline Black, Pilates Conservatory/Pat Guyton, The Heritage Program/ Cara Reeser, Master-Mentor Programs/Rael Isacowitz and The Stretch To Win Institute/Frederick Stretch Therapy and Therapeutic Yoga/Cheri Clampett and Arturo Peal, to name a few.

With a rich and diverse background, Amy’s skillset is deep, detailed and nuanced. She prides herself on providing programming for clients and teachers that is functional, safe and client-centered, relevant to what they’re needing from the Pilates Method. She has a keen eye, impeccable creative cuing and a compassionate teaching style.

Amy is one of the original teachers for Pilates Anytime, the industry’s leading resource for online Pilates education. In addition to teaching for the site, Amy hosted and directed visiting teachers and was pivotal in content creation up until fall of 2020.

Amy owned CenterPoint Pilates, one of Santa Barbara’s premier studios, for 20 years, and in the fall of 2020 downsized and now teaches in a small private space devoted to private and semi private clients, virtual teaching, mentoring and creating transformative retreat experiences. Amy enjoys teaching, whether its online, in studios or traveling internationally. When not teaching, she loves cooking, hiking, dancing, restoring with yin yoga, spending time with friends and playing with her dog Luna.