Hi, I’m Mariska.
I've been a Pilates teacher, creative director, a video producer, and — according to a college scholarship I received in what the kids are calling the 1900s — an artist. These days I invent fitness equipment, help people whose nervous systems have strong, independent opinions, mentor movement pros, and write essays, mostly to keep the monkeys in my head from forming a union.
I'm semi-famous in a tiny industry, which is like being the guy at the hardware store whose name everyone in town knows. The common thread is that I take complicated things and make them simpler and more effective. Sometimes that's a patented piece of apparatus. Sometimes it's a 27-hour course on living with MS. Sometimes it's just a sentence that finally says the thing.
My Work
Fuse Ladder
Fuse Ladder is the workout I needed to exist, but since it didn’t, I invented it. I love tough strength training and I need to do standing exercise and balance work. The Fuse Ladder is patented and everything. Add inventor to the list of things I never thought I would do. Check it out here.
Photo courtesy of Pilates Anytime.
For Movement Pros
Workshops @ The Neuro Studio
Pilates for Neurological Conditions and Advanced Neuro Techniques will change how you teach all of your movement clients. I partner with the super-smart physiologist and Pilates instructor Meghann Koppele Duffy on workshops that have been taught worldwide to over 2,500 physical therapists and movement pros. They're scientifically backed, studio-tested, and updated regularly. Plus, my neurologist is really famous, and he thinks we're geniuses.
Mentorships, Custom Workshops, and Teacher Training
I've spent nearly 20 years teaching workshops around the world — neuroscience, neurological illness and injury, gait and balance, and how to actually run a group class. Here's how we can work together.
Host a workshop. Are you a studio owner who wants to bring one of my trainings to your space? Let's chat.
One-on-one coaching. Go deep on a topic, talk through a tricky client, learn to teach to music or choreograph a hard class on the fly, talk about building and marketing a thing, or work through my process for building a workshop or a product or a book. I do this over Zoom — and if you'd rather do it in person, I can highly recommend Malta.
The year-long mentorship. Once a year, I run a mentorship with my Neuro Studio partner, Meghann Koppele Duffy — two teachers, a full year, everything we know. If you want a year to transform your teaching and your business — you want this.
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For Patients
The Neuro Studio Subscription
If you're living with a neurological condition — or you mentor people who are — we built memberships for you. You get five weekly live classes, pre-recorded workouts and movement tips, monthly Q&As, and movement assessments. The MS Master Plan lives there too: a 27-hour encyclopedia of all things MS, and the biggest, most personal project I've ever made. The goal was simple and slightly unhinged — to build the most comprehensive single source of information about life with MS that exists.
Patient Consults
If you're living with a neurological condition and you want to talk shop with someone who gets it, I offer private consultations. We go through your concerns, what you've tried, what you might try next, your movement challenges, all of it.
Email me to schedule.
On my classes...
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“I'm stealing these moves for my group class tonight! Thanks for the inspiration.”
— Jenna
“These classes always fly by and give me the perfect mix of challenge and stretch. YAS QUEEN YAS.”
— Marna
“I have not been sore from a Pilates workout in a long time. This was really a great one!”
— John
Books and Essays
Since my resume wasn’t overflowing enough for my type A+ personality, I took on some writing projects. A memoir is forthcoming. Meanwhile, you can search for latest essays or check out the Substack here.
Move with me.
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