Location: Miami, Florida
Montse’s passion for physical activity and teaching dates back to her beginnings as a dancer and her more than 30 years of international experience as a classical ballet teacher for the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing (ISTD). Montse has been teaching Pilates since 1991 and is certified on both mat and apparatus by Stoot Pilates, Peak Pilates, Integrated Balanced Pilates and Julian Littleford Body Conditioning. In addition, she is a Gyrotonic® Certified Teacher, “Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist” through the Pink Ribbon Program, Inc., and an Authorized Scolio-Pilates® Practitioner.
Montse has a degree in biochemistry and molecular biology from the Autonomous University of Madrid and a Doctor cum laude with a doctoral thesis on Molecular Mechanisms of Rheumatoid Arthritis. Montse is a Pilates Method Alliance Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT), and an international presenter of Pilates, kinesology, and dance seminars to professional and amateur Pilates dancers and instructors in Latin America, Europe, and the United States at conferences and private events.
She was appointed by the PMA as a pilates ambassador for Pilates Day 2016. She presented at the PMA conferences in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017, 2018 and has collaborated in the revision of the Spanish translation of the Pilates certification exam (PMA) in the years 2013 and 2021. Montse is the training director and master trainer for Integrated Balance at Zolo Pilates, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
Montse works with dancers at an international level, and also with high-performance athletes, helping them in their training, as well as with children, the elderly, and the disabled; and with breast cancer patients helping them in their rehabilitation through the Pink Ribbon Program, and is a contributor to TuPilates.Video. Montse is also certified as a Health Coach by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition in New York, and has obtained the Reiki II degree.
Montse has her studio in Miami, where she is a Master Instructor Trainer and International Curriculum Coordinator for Integrated Balanced, LLC.
Authorized Scolio-Pilates® Practitioner since September 2021