Smiling Heather Dennis sitting on a reformer, showcasing Pilates exercises for women over 50 and promoting better balance and core strength.

About Heather

Heather Dennis is a visionary movement educator for women who want to claim the last thirty years of their lives for their own.

Unencumbered by limiting cultural belief systems that say “we are over the hill”, when in fact, we are on top of the mountain. In other words this is the new “prime of life.”

We can dream bigger.

About the rest of our lives. So we can cultivate confidence in our bodies. At any age.

Emboldened through the process of movement education where knowing better helps us move and feel better.

Where we purposely rewrite the outdated narrative that women should expect decline and disease as they age. By reclaiming our own agency of sensing, feeling and action.

We can change that culture.

Together.

So we can enjoin with others, enjoy our loves and embody our experiences to create meaning for the rest of our lives.

Heather Dennis performing a squat in a Pilates studio, demonstrating effective exercises for active aging, fitness for women over 50, and improved core strength.

The Movement is the Method

The Heather Dennis Method is an inquiry. Into what it means to be a woman living in a body that’s been told how to behave, look and function by a Patriarchal culture.

  • Here we use exercise to stimulate curiosity about our thoughts and behaviours that either embolden or limit us.

  • Here we explore exercise that stimulates the sensory relationship between brain and body so that we may build strength, stamina and balance as we grow older.

The truth is how we feel has nothing to do with our age. It has more to do with mindset and expanding the capacity of our movement capabilities.

None of this is predicated on age, ability or athletic prowess. Movement is our birthright. And can be successfully reclaimed across our healthspan.

It’s not just an exercise class

The Heather Dennis Method was born out of frustration to explain my body of work.

It wasn’t just a yoga class. Or a Pilates Class. Or an exercise class.

It was something else, where movement processes became an adaptive medium to reclaim our natural inborn resilience.

These are not just classes, they are my art, my heart and my personal expression of how I’ve made sense out of life through words and movement.

My students say my greatest asset is the languaging or cueing I use. It is direct. It directs. It takes you places inside yourself that have laid previously unexplored. It helps you understand your precious body.

To that end I seek to serve. Your body, your mind and a buoyant future for all women.

I am..

A life-long learner. Writer. Amalgamator. Synthesiser. Questioner.

So you can:

• Develop resilience and trust in your body through movement processes that stimulate self-recognition AND mind-body integration.

• Discover exercise that HEALS rather than hurts. Processes that add rather than subtract quality of life.

• Trust unique learning experiences that produce noticeable shifts in awareness to expand your movement capacity, and noticeable relief from pain and suffering.

And live your “Loves”.

Heather Dennis using a Pilates ring to enhance her workout, showcasing exercises for core strength, flexibility, and body alignment in fitness for women over 50.

You are in good hands

My training:

2023 completed certifications:

  • Flow Research Collective Coaching Certification

  • Functional Range Conditioning

  • Kinstretch

  • Eldoa Level 1 and 2

  • Eldoa Level 3

  • Soma Training Abdominals


2024 completed certifications

  • Oxygen Advantage Breathing

  • Dynamic Muscular Stabilization

  • Postural Restoration Pelvis

  • Postural Respiration

2020 completed certification

  • Hypopressives Level 1

2019 completed certifications

  • 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training

  • Anatomy Trains Structure and Function

  • Art of Motion Slings Myofascial Training







2015 completed

  • Somatic Experiencing Level 1

2014

  • Franklin Method Level 1

2012

  • Pilates Leadership 600 hour Long Beach Dance

  • Melt Method Instructor

2007

  • Stott Pilates all equipment certification

1994

  • Downeast School of Massage Therapy


Yes you will get older.

How you do it is up to you.

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