Education
2023
TRE® Advanced Trainings
- First Responders & Athletes
- Integration, Presence and Interventions
2022
TRE® Advanced Trainings
- Diverse Populations & Spine Issues
- Interventions and Self-Assists
2021
TRE® Advanced Training with
Dr. Stephen Porges & Dr. David Berceli
2019
Certified TRE® Provider
Level 2 TRE® – Tension, Trauma and Stress Release Exercise
2018
Level 1 TRE® – Tension, Trauma and Stress Release Exercise
2013
Certified Fascial Fitness Trainer – Dr. Robert Schleip PhD., Ulm
2012
Certified Myofascial Teacher – Associate for Thomas Myers, Maine
2003
Certified Polestar® Pilates Instructor – All Apparatus, Hong Kong
2003
Certified Meridian® Pilates – Cadillac, Chair & Barrels, Kuala Lumpur
2000
Certified Yamana® Body Rolling Practitioner (SMR) – Level 2, New York
2001
Canadian Pilates Institute – 350 hour apprenticeship, Vancouver
1999
Certified Stott® Pilates Instructor – Reformer and Mat, Vancouver
1997
The Method Center – Pilates Rehabilitation, 1000 hour apprenticeship, Vancouver
1984
Certificate Health and Fitness – Simon Fraser University, Vancouver
Kathleen Keller
Teacher & Presenter
Conference, Retreat & Workshop Facilitator
Kathleen is a Master-Teacher with 40+ years’ experience. She is an international Teacher-Trainer. Her approachability, sense of humor, and compassion have made her a much sought-after educator.
Kathleen Teaches: Rehabilitative Pilates, Pilates for general fitness, Fascial Fitness, Self-Myofascial Release (SMR), TRE® – Tension & Trauma Release Exercise, and Functional Fitness. She offers in-person or live-virtual sessions. She teaches privately and to groups.
Kat Presents: Workshops and lectures and facilitates retreats. Click here for upcoming events. Over 3,000 Health Professionals have learned her innovative SMR techniques through her workshops. Click here for general presentation history. Kat has also developed a series of workshops and lectures for the Dental Community. Click here for Dental Practitioner presentation history.
A multitude of factors can negatively affect your overall health, including work-related postures, repetitive habits, lifestyle, injuries, daily life activities and chronic stress. Kat specializes in teaching people how to alleviate pervasive conditions that alter or reduce their ability to live pain free with less stress. Her aim is to empower people to prevent and remediate injuries, myofascial restrictions, and joint immobility.
Kat enables her clients to transform how they move, feel, and inhabit their bodies … she helps create healthier and more freely moving humans.
2024: CURRENT CLINICAL PRACTICE
Mondays and Saturdays
Elevate Movement Therapies & Performance – Physiotherapy, Pilates, TRE®, Traditional Chinese Medicine , Massage, Nutrition and Acupuncture. Kat is teaching along side the brilliant Neuro-Physiotherapists of the Synaptic Neuro Rehab Center. Elevate and Synaptic share the same space. Elevate bookings call 587.393.8263 or email info@elevatemovement.ca.
Elevate Movement is located at 120 – 4129 8 Street SE, Calgary, AB. Click here for a map.
2024: CURRENT MOBILE & LIVE-VIRTUAL SESSIONS
Tuesday through Thursday
Kat offers in-person house-calls in client’s homes (Calgary) and occasionally teaches out of her SW Calgary home. She teaches all her modalities virtually world-wide.
2022-2024: Kat became a mobile teacher leaving the physical base of being in clinical practice to venture out on her own. She loves to challenge her clients to workout more independently with what ever equipment they have.
2021-2008: For 19 years, Kat based her private practice solely with-in well-respected Physiotherapy Clinics in Calgary, Canada. She has worked closely with, and continues to learn from, some of the top Therapists in Canada. In 2022 Kat left the clinical environment and created her mobile business.
- 2019 – 2021: Lakeview Physiotherapy Clinic
- 2017 – 2019: Momentum Health Clinic
- 2011 – 2017: Tower Physiotherapy Clinic
- 2008 – 2011: LifeMark Physiotherapy Clinic
- 2007: Re-entered Canada from abroad
- 2002 – 2007: Trained Pilates Teachers in Malaysia, Indonesia and Spain
2017: Kat discovered TRE® – Tension & Trauma Release Exercise and Certified in 2019. She knew immediately that she must bring this powerful stress-release technique to her clients, friends, and family. Now more than ever, Kat believes that everyone should know how to do this simple yet-profound practice, to help regulate their own central nervous system.
CAREER HIGHLIGHT
2002-2007: Kat moved overseas to Asia to train locals to become Pilates Teachers. She was brought in by the family of the (then) Malaysian Prime Minister. She worked in Kuala Lumpur (MY) and Jakarta (IND). At this time, Pilates was virtually unheard of in Southeast Asia. She introduced the first international level programs of Pilates Teacher-Training & Self-Myofascial Release (SMR) techniques to these regions. Producing great teachers in Asia is the biggest accomplishment of her life and the one she is the proudest of. She gave her apprentices a true vocation, that they could take anywhere. Her last overseas adventure in 2006 took her to Teach-Teachers in regions of Spain. She keeps in contact with many of her students and is extremely proud of all that they have gone on to accomplish.
Spain, England & Indonesia
2007: Kat moved to work in Alicante, Spain, for one year (from Jakarta, Indonesia). Here she fully concentrated on the development of her own teacher training syllabus in Pilates and SMR. She mentored the teachers at Body Mind Cantering Studio and taught groups of physiotherapists in various Spanish towns and in London.
2005 – 2006: An international chain of health clubs, Celebrity Fitness, head-hunted Kathleen (then living in Malaysia) to be the Pilates Educator for their clubs in Indonesia and Malaysia. At that time Indonesia had 237 million people, and no local properly trained Pilates instructors. She introduced the first international level of Pilates Teacher Training Programs and SMR to Indonesia. She set-up and directed the programming for their nine clubs in two countries.
Malaysia and Hong Kong
2002 – 2005: The family of the then Malaysian Prime Minister, recruited Kat (then living in Vancouver), to open and manage Pilates studios in Kuala Lumpur. Her responsibilities included training local Malaysians as Pilates instructors. At this time, Pilates was virtually unheard of in Southeast Asia. Kat introduced the first international level of Pilates Teacher Training Programs and SMR to Malaysia. Furthering her work in several provinces of Malaysia, she led workshops for physiotherapists and chiropractors. Kat spent significant periods of time in Hong Kong and enriched her own training by completing her second Pilates Instructor Certification, Polestar®.
Vancouver, Canada
1977 – 2002: Kat began her career by teaching gymnastics, dance & fitness in Vancouver. She is a former national level competitive gymnast, professional dancer and choreographer. Kat enjoyed an intensely rewarding career teaching fitness/dance and performing for 20 years. She discovered Pilates following an injury in the 90’s, which dramatically shifted the trajectory of her path. She switched her teaching track over to Pilates. In 1997 she completed an intensive Pilates Rehabilitation apprenticeship (The Method Center) and in 1999 became a fully Certified Stott® Pilates Teacher. She was teaching Pilates out of various Vancouver studios, before she took on her life-changing overseas teaching adventures.
