Allan Menezes

ALLAN MENEZES established the first Pilates studio in the southern hemisphere, Body Control Pilates Studios, in Sydney, Australia in 1986, and founded the Pilates Institute of Australasia in 1996.

Menezes holds a business degree from Brock University in Canada, an MSc from the University of Surrey in the UK, and a diploma from the British Institute of Marketing. He discovered Pilates in London in 1982, training at the Alan Herdman Studios, and his institute’s courses are accredited by the Australian Fitness Accreditation Council.

When not running his institute, Menezes lectures internationally and conducts workshops for the general public, physiotherapists, and medical practitioners, work rooted in his own experience recovering from a serious back injury sustained while playing rugby in Canada.

Allan lives in Sydney.

Allan Menezes’s books are published by Hunter House, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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