Master Classical Pilates Teacher · Founder of Lineage Pilates
Jacqueline Martin is a second-generation classical Pilates teacher. She offers her signature Pilates programs that guide women to reshape into a body they love and to live with more vitality and confidence.
She is the founder of Lineage Pilates and, over seventeen years of teaching, has helped hundreds of women around the world transform their practice, among them advanced students and Pilates teachers taking their work to the highest level. Her teaching has been requested at dozens of Pilates conferences worldwide, including a virtual conference alongside Jay Grimes, a first-generation teacher who studied directly with Joseph Pilates. Her work has been featured in Vogue Poland and in the book Before, During and After Menopause. She has been a guest on the Balanced Body podcast, speaking about her journey in classical Pilates, and was profiled by Business Woman & Life as an entrepreneur, studio owner and internationally teaching Pilates instructor.
Before Pilates, Jacqueline competed as a professional triathlete for Canada: internationally ranked in the top ten, with top-five finishes in six countries and a top-two finish at Ironman Canada. She also competed in bodybuilding for three years, placing third overall at a national-level competition in Canada.
Jacqueline is a NeuroMovement® practitioner. She has completed the Anat Baniel Method® NeuroMovement® trainings in Foundation, Children's Mastery and Anti-Aging, and teaches Transformational Movement Lessons (TML) and Functional Synthesis at the studio. For the past five years she has also trained in the Ido Portal method, through its online mentorship and two-week intensives in Berlin, Thailand and Miami. Both disciplines shape how she sees a body and teaches it to move.
She taught from her base in Ladysmith, British Columbia, for most of those years. Today she teaches in Budapest, where she leads the studio floor at Lineage Pilates Buda.
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Her work as a classical Pilates teacher, featured in Vogue Poland.
The book in which her work is featured.
A guest episode on her journey in classical Pilates.
A profile of Jacqueline as an entrepreneur, studio owner and internationally teaching Pilates instructor.
She has taught over 1,000 women her signature style of Classical Pilates in the past 17 years and counting
Jacqueline is an expert in a Menopause Support Group on Facebook with a following of over 80,000 women who look to her for guidance in experiencing a body they love and living a life of vitality and confidence.
She's helped her students transform their minds, body and spirit and experience real change inside and out.
★★★★★ 5.0 from 200+ students
It’s Jacqueline’s coaching style, her sparkle, and her drive to bring out the best in others is what makes her my inspiration. There is just something magical about her that I can’t put into words.
Jacqueline’s dedication to Classical Pilates technique has transformed my practice, giving me strength, flexibility, and confidence. She’s truly an incredible master educator at the highest level.
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Leave a Google reviewEach of these is a conversation Jacqueline can lead — as a podcast guest, in a written piece or guest article, on-air, or as expert commentary for your publication.
July 2020 virtual weekend with Jay Grimes, sponsored by Balance Body and Lineage Pilates. This event showcased Polish teachers and the Classical Pilates Method and benefits.
September 2018 Contrology Conference in Lublin at Klasyczny Pilates Studio. Jacqueline Martin featured teacher: Foundations for Sports workshops, teaching privates, duets and group non lead classes.
September 2017 Whistler, BC Lineage Pilates Classical Conference
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