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The Beginning
From then on, my life was about being careful with how I moved,
I was very afraid of moving "wrong" and hurting myself.
The Restart
Pilates taught me to move consciously and helped me regain confidence and improve my body's functionality as primary gains. I consider all the skills I acquired later, such as flexibility, strength and endurance, to be secondary gains. In addition, it greatly complemented my physical therapy sessions with my patients. And I ended up falling in love with this world of physical activity. Over the years, I discovered my place and my purpose. I decided then that I would work on my own, win over my clients, serve each person for the time I determined would be best and that I would receive the amount I considered worthy of all my effort and dedication. I already had a personal goal of keeping myself updated in my field, and so I attended conferences annually. I attended workshops, SBED (Brazilian Society for the Study of Pain) conferences, I became a member and read the year's articles whenever I received my copies.
I worked at a private clinic in São Paulo, where people who had already tried everything to improve their pain would come to me. That's how I learned active listening, care, compassion, and other skills, such as the use of equipments such as shockwave therapy and traction stretchers, not to mention the scientific meetings on Saturdays with a wonderful team that included all the clinic's physiotherapists and a former University professor who guided us and taught us a lot. At that moment, I realized the needed to study the complex world of chronic pain.
​In 2017, I began the journey to open my own practice inside a gym. Soon after, I moved into a larger room, where I could use my own Pilates equipment, and I shared a large house in Vila Mariana, São Paulo, with other wonderful women in the healthcare setting, including doctors, psychologists, nutritionists, and dentists. In January 2020, I moved into a room that could fit my entire Pilates Studio, and then the COVID-19 pandemic hit. I got to know EBP (Evidence-Based Practice) and entered a deeper universe of Science, breaking paradigms and improving myself more and more. With the need for isolation, I started offering online services until August 2020, and that's when I realized how many people I could help through the Internet. I continued to provide services in a hybrid manner until early 2023, and I treated people with various physical conditions in the areas of orthopedics and traumatology. It was then that I decided to close the Studio, sell everything, and move in to Canada, keeping only my online clients.
By practicing Pilates with people who lived in other states and even other countries, such as Spain, the USA, Pernambuco, Santa Catarina, and Amazonas, I realized that it was possible to live and expand the company in this way. That's when the idea of ​​studying Business Management & Entrepreneurship in Ottawa and creating Pilates Anywhere came to me.
​Dealing with chronic pain not only as a professional but also as a person, my life experience has brought me here.
