STOTT Pilates History 101

Following her career as a dancer with the Bermuda Ballet,[6] and principal dancer with the City Ballet of Toronto and the Atlantic Ballet Company,[7] Moira Merrithew learned, with the help of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre,[8] of the Pilates method of exercise. Moira received her Pilates training in New York City from Romana Kryzanowska, a protégé of Joseph Pilates. After her training was complete and her return to Toronto, Moira and Lindsay Merrithew developed the Stott Pilates method in the 1980s. Lindsay has been instrumental in designing, producing and marketing the company's extensive equipment and video lines and is a past member of Ontario's prestigious Innovators Alliance for elite entrepreneurs. Lindsay was nominated twice for Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur of the Year award and is a five-time recipient of PROFIT Magazine's 100 Fastest-Growing Companies award.

Stott Pilates Reformer class at Toronto Corporate Training Center.Prior to the conclusion, in 2000, of a trademark case[9] about who was entitled to use the word 'Pilates,' The Stott Pilates Method was known as "Stott Conditioning a contemporary approach to the teaching of Joseph H Pilates." In 2010, the company name was changed to Merrithew Health & Fitness, but the name of the method remained Stott Pilates.