Ambassadors

8-year ballet training at the Palucca School Dresden and the Conservatory of the city of Vienna. Training to become a fitness trainer of the BafL (Federal Institute of Education), aerobics instructor and much more. Pilates trainer for mat with Juliana Afram. Afterwards Power Pilates training to become a studio-coach. 2004 opening of the own Pilates studio FIRST PILATES in Baden near Vienna. Additional training to become a teacher trainer and working as a presenter on international conventions. Worked as a trainer in Germany, Switzerland and Austria. In addition, co-founder of the Pilates Association Austria and licensed Pilates instructor of the PMA (Pilates Method Alliance). Since 2013 the Director of School Education THE PILATES STANDARD (international Director Bob Liekens) for Austria.  

An affair of the heart. 
Since my first encounter with yoga, it is an integral part of my life. With yoga I found the key to my heart. It opens my body, my mind, and my soul through thoughtful movement and conscious breathing. This meditative process makes me experience a unique sense of wholeness and touches my heart. 
I’m offering Ashtanga and Yin yoga classes for beginners and advancers in individual and group lessons and, since recently, classes in pre- and postnatal yoga.  It is my desire to share my experiences and knowledge with my students.

Based in Vienna Pilates System Europe was founded by Anna Schrefl, whose background stems from contemporary dance at the Amsterdam School of Art and Modern Dance Academy Rotterdam. Anna completed her Pilates education in 2001 in New York with Romana Kryzanowska, a student of Joseph Pilates. She then gained further experience in the classic Pilates technique in France and the Netherlands. Her extensive experience and long term associations with physical therapists and osteopaths combined with additional training in Spiral Dynamics© in Switzerland enabled Anna to develop her own Pilates method, called "Pilates System Europe,” and to establish a training institute in Vienna.
"We are building on rich experience and knowledge,” says Anna. "Joseph Pilates was a visionary and extremely creative thinker, who in the 20th century discovered and transformed a lot. The combination of his knowledge with the physiological findings of the 21st century is the vision that guides the services and training we provide at our studio." Anna is an active choreographer. For more than a decade, she has provided training for groups and individuals as well as workshops for dancers.