Bosom Buddies

Eve Gentry and Kathy Grant Explorations with Blossom Leilani Crawford and Kristen Davis

Monday, October 20th

4:00pm ET / 3:00pm CT / 2:00pm MT / 1:00pm PT

CLICK HERE to Register. Recording available to registrants for 30 days.

TFT's Bosom Buddies series returns with Blossom Leilani Crawford and Kristen Davis!

Pilates elders Eve Gentry, a radical mastectomy survivor, and Kathy Grant, a black dancer who’d had back to back knee surgeries, were both rehabbed by Joseph Pilates. Both later taught their own auxiliary work alongside the classical Pilates repertoire: Eve developed her Gentry Movement Fundamentals while working with injured clients in Santa Fe, while Kathy developed her Before the Hundred protocol while teaching Pilates at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. This class is a playful exploration and reverent tribute to the work of Eve and Kathy. All proceeds from this class will benefit African American Breast Cancer Alliance Inc.

CLICK HERE to join us on the Mat for this special Virtual TFT Class taught by Bosom Buddies!

Can’t make it October 20th? All registrants will have access to the recording for 30 days after the live class!

Blossom Leilani Crawford

Blossom Leilani Crawford is the owner and director of Bridge Pilates in Brooklyn, New York. She is known for her playful and powerful teaching methods, which she developed during the seventeen years she worked with Pilates Elder Kathleen Stanford Grant. Kathy was one of only two people to receive her Pilates teaching certification from Joseph Pilates HIMSELF. Blossom's current work is a blend of her own considerable experience, Romana's more traditional set of training methods, and Kathy's flexible and demanding style. She is known for her ability to seamlessly integrate Pilates lineages as the situation demands, and for her insight into Kathy's work. The diverse stylistic approaches Blossom can access on the spot has made her a sought after Pilates instructor throughout the United States and abroad.

Kristen Davis

In 2005, while (somewhat miserably) pursuing a PhD in Chicago, Kristen Davis booked a lesson at the Pilates studio across the street from her apartment. It was love at first Hundred. By 2007, she’d started first her comprehensive teacher training. By 2009, she’d said good-bye to academia to teach Pilates full time.

Since then, Kristen has studied extensively in the lineages of three of Mr Pilates’s students: Eve Gentry, Romana Kryzanowzka, and Kathy Grant. She is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher. Because Pilates is an unregulated industry, she believes it is critical to understand where and from whom exercise modifications and variations come, as well as when and why to teach them.

In 2021, Kristen and her business partner, Susan Bange, opened The Pilates Lab, St Louis’s first fully classical Pilates studio and host studio for Real Pilates Teacher Training.

Kristen serves as a Director for Teasers For Tatas in honor of her friend Lisa Lynch’s legacy.