Celeste Hope

Wellness

Experience the Difference

About Me

Inspiring Change

My name is Celeste Hope and I am a wellness coach: Pilates expert, trainer, natural foods chef, Reiki master, and healer.  My personal wellness journey started when I was a kid. Despite being born with aortic insufficiency and having suffered other traumas to my lungs, I always had a love for exercise, muscles, athletic performance, and healthy eating.  I was a professional dancer into my 20s, studied and competed in Tae Kwon Do, trained and became a trainer at the gym, and learned to have a love/hate relationship with running.  During my late 20s after leaving a prestigious job at New York’s premier investment bank, I worked as a personal trainer and covered Yoga and Pilates classes at the gym when necessary.  With nothing more than the knowledge from my at home practices of yoga and Pilates and my understanding of the body and it’s best mechanics, I applied what I knew and became a sought after teacher in the gym.  Without the expert training in Pilates, specifically, the gym agreed to send me for comprehensive Pilates training and personal training instruction because they knew I brought in clients and got results. That was the start of my PIlates journey that turned into a Private practice for the past 20 years. I was later on diagnosed with lupus (undifferentiated connective tissue disease). I determined to reverse the disease in my body naturally and through dietary changes and reiki healing, along with my other healthy lifestyle habits, and was able to put the lupus in complete remission. I became a reiki master over a number of years, and decided to become a natural foods chef, studying at the former legendary Natural Gourmet Institute.

For greater success and for fulfillment in all aspects of your life, people come to Celeste Hope, Wellness Enterprises. Ready to get started?

Pilates for Youth and Youth Exercise Training

Celeste specializes in teaching Pilates for the youth population – this means children 5 – 12 and adolescents 13- 18. Celeste believes that the principles that influenced the protocols for teaching Pilates to this population are the foundation for all exercise and sporting practice for Youth.  This means that the guidelines based on physiology and development that are behind the protocols for the Pilates repertoire chosen for each respective age category of youth in the pre-pubescent, pubescent, and post-pubescent age groups are the basis for functional and foundational movement for any physical activity of these ages – whether day to day activity and play or structured elite sporting activity.

Celeste has been working with youth of all ages in both group and private settings for over 15 years.  With the publication of ‘Pilates for Children and Adolescents, a Manual of Guidelines and Curriculum’ that she directed and co-authored for the Pilates Method Alliance, she is eager to share her knowledge and expertise not only with Pilates teachers, but with all practitioners that work with the youth populations – in physical education, sports specific training, and physical therapy.

She offers workshops and trainings that are both general and specialty driven for the practitioner.  These workshops and trainings will prepare the respective practitioner for the specific needs of the youth groups they work with and enable them to create foundational, safe, functional, and effective programming that enhances any program or practice.

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• Book Now Available: ‘Pilates for Children and Adolescents’ – co-author of the first comprehensive training manual for safely teaching Pilates to the Youth population - click here to purchase the book PMA shop by clicking here

• Private lessons at studio, Pilates Staten Island: specialized one-on-one lessons for youth. The students in this environment include, elite athletes and youth involved in specialized sports training, youth with post-rehabilitative needs, or special needs.

• CEC Workshops:4 and 6 hour PMA approved CEC workshops for Pilates Teachers.

• Consulting – Skype/in person: This is individualized consulting and training for individuals looking to work with youth in whatever the environment. The work is tailored to the needs of the training client and their clientele.

Know Me Cards

Inside this beautiful box of Know Me Cards, we hope to bring you joy in getting to know yourself and your world on a deeper, more meaningful level.  Some of the wonderful things the cards suggest, inspire, question, and reflect upon, make you stop and think about your life and how "Know Me" will help you be the best YOU ever.  "Know Me" will make a difference in the lives of those you care about - including Yourself!

Use these fun illustrated cards for exploration, learning, and discovery of both your inside and out.

The Lift Program

The Movement System for a Fit Pelvic Floor.
Discover how to improve your pelvic floor function and posture.

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Lift-Pro is a functional movement system designed to enhance pelvic floor function and overall posture.

Lift-Pro is designed to optimize natural movement, tension /release, patterns to re-engage and/or release the pelvic floor as a part of the whole body.  Isolating muscles (i.e. kegels) is only a small part of a functional, organic, integrated body system.  The program uses awareness techniques, natural, therapeutic, and Pilates based exercises.

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