Danielle Armstrong

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“Prevention is better than a cure.”

Danielle owns Pilates Life on Northlake and is a former dancer. She said that this year in particular she has worked with many women in their mid 60s to mid 70s through a breast cancer diagnosis and treatment, keeping them active and moving. She traced her training back to Joseph Pilates through Romana Kryzanowska and Lolita San Miguel, and told the story of Eve Gentry, the dancer Pilates helped regain her full range of motion after a radical mastectomy.

Background

• She grew up in Western New York and is an honors graduate of SUNY Purchase College, where she earned a BFA from the Conservatory of Dance and was first introduced to the Pilates method.
• In 2002 she completed more than 600 hours of teacher training and was certified through Pilates Inc. under the direction of Romana Kryzanowska, along with Ton Voogt and Michael Fritzke.
• She opened her first studio in Norwalk, Connecticut, in 2005 and moved to Florida in 2009, where she has taught dance and Pilates, including at the Harid Conservatory.
• She met Lolita San Miguel in 2012, completed Lolita’s Pilates Master Mentor Program in 2014, and was selected to teach Lolita’s Legacy, Lolita’s teacher training program.
• Her studio opened in 2011 as Classical Pilates at The Florida School for Dance Education and, renamed Pilates Life, is now home to Lolita’s Pilates Center.

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Play: Pilates and Nutrition After Breast Cancer

Episode 18

Pilates and Nutrition After Breast Cancer

Elyse Marrone and Danielle Armstrong

Registered dietitian Elyse Marrone and Danielle Armstrong, owner of Pilates Life in Palm Beach Gardens, join Dave and Mike on food, movement and recovery before, during and after a breast cancer diagnosis, from Elyse’s seven pillars of health to how Joseph Pilates helped a dancer back after a radical mastectomy.

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• ▶Play clip: They told her she would never dance or do Pilates again.

  They told her she would never dance or do Pilates again.

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