Nancy Golike is a Master Pilates Instructor and Movement Teacher, Coach and Consultant with over 25 years of teaching experience.
Nancy’s current teaching home for private clients is Momentum Pilates at The Curative near Union Square in Manhattan. Nancy engages with a broad range of moving bodies. She helps fitness clients and high performance movers achieve good function, strength and flexibility, as well as injury rehabilitation and prevention. Nancy assists older populations with restorative movement and maintaining mobility, and coaches performing artists in performance enhancement.
In addition to developing and maintaining a large private clientele, Nancy has taught group classes in college dance departments, gyms, wellness centers, and yoga studios, and has also developed workshops on pilates from movement and functional perspectives for advanced students and teachers, as well as teacher training seminars.
Nancy began studying pilates while receiving her MFA in Dance from Temple University, and subsequently came under the private tutelage of Teacher of Teachers, Karen H. Carlson. She soon began teaching private clients at Ms. Carlson’s studio, and was certified in 2004 by her Advanced Apprenticeship Teacher Training Program.
Movement in its highest function is the focus of Nancy’s teaching practice. Working from the perspective of kinesiology, biomechanics and functional anatomy, she utilizes pilates and other movement systems as frameworks to facilitate neuromuscular re-patterning, sound structural organization, and free and efficient movement. Using imagery and tactile cueing, Nancy gives her clients the alignment, integration, and sophistication to tackle any movement goals or performance challenges with embodiment and grace.