Streamline Hosts a Weekend Workshop
Go Big: What Happened When We Traced Pilates All the Way Back — and Then All the Way Forward
In April, Streamline had the privilege of hosting Movement Science Made Simple's Cara Reeser and Jeremy Laverdure for their latest weekend-long immersive workshop: Go Big.
If the title sounds like a dare, that's because it was.
Over the course of an intensive, full-weekend deep dive, we did something that sounds simple but is actually quite rare in our field — we slowed down long enough to ask why. Why does this exercise exist? Where did it come from? What is it actually asking of the body? And then, once we had those answers, we asked the natural follow-up: how far can it go?
We began at the beginning. Cara and Jeremy — who brought their signature Movement Science Made Simple approach all the way from New York City — led us back to the foundational origins of the Pilates exercises, tracing the lineage of movements that many of us practice daily, peeling back the layers of cue and modification to find the essential intention underneath. There's something genuinely humbling about revisiting work you think you know. What looks like simplicity at the surface is, it turns out, an intricate architecture of principle, biomechanics, and intent.
Every foundational movement, we were reminded, is a seed.
From those roots, the weekend unfolded like a time-lapse. We followed movements through their progressions — not just the next variation, but the demanding ones. The ones that require real preparation, real strength, real body awareness. The challenging and advanced expressions of the Pilates repertoire aren't showpieces; they're the full realization of what every early, foundational movement was always pointing toward.
By the end of the weekend, the exercises we'd practiced hundreds of times looked entirely different. Not because they had changed — but because we had.
This is what a truly great workshop does: it doesn't just add information to your toolkit. It reframes everything you already carry. We challenged our bodies, deepened our craft, and left with a whole new appreciation for just how far this method can take us when we commit to understanding it fully — not just from the outside, but from the inside out.
And then there was the room itself.
Teachers made the trip from across the country to be part of this weekend — from California, Wyoming, Florida and beyond — and joined colleagues from right here in our own backyard, including teachers from Park City, Murray, and the broader Salt Lake City Pilates community. That mix of familiar faces and new ones made the energy in the room something special. There is something irreplaceable about learning alongside people who care deeply about the same thing you do — people who are asking the same questions, wrestling with the same challenges, and lighting up at the same moments of discovery. Whether someone had driven an hour or flown across the country to be there, everyone arrived with the same intention: to go deeper into this work.
Welcoming that community into our space left us full and satisfied in the way that only genuine connection can.
And, as it always does — it left us hungry for more.
Stay tuned for upcoming workshops and events at Streamline. We're always looking for the next opportunity to go deep, go far, and go big.
