Tamara Di Tella is the author of the books, “Tamara Di Tella Pilates” and “The Tamara Di Tella Method: Tangolates”, among nine other publications on health and fitness. She conducts seminars and workshops, writes for magazines and newspapers; and collaborates in a radio program. Tamara Di Tella is also the President of the world’s largest chain of Pilates & Tangolates Studios with more than fifty locations in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia.
MY STORY
Hello, my name is Tamara Di Tella. I am a Ph.D. candidate from Stanford University and the daughter of a prestigious neurologist of Russian origin. In the year 2004, my Pilates company donated a Rehab Room to the Institute of Applied Neurosciences of a public hospital in Buenos Aires. Working with Parkinson patients I discovered that partner exercises helped then move more easily. I also found that the use of a highly focused rhythm like Tango made a huge difference. With the help of the medical doctors from the Hospital, I developed my new method, a cardio version of my classical Pilates. It’s called Tangolates® or Tango Pilates, although most people call it The Tamara Di Tella Method. Gradually, my method evolved into what is today: an aerobic, core-control, calorie burning Pilates partner routines to perform on a special apparatus called T-DITELLA®. I still go to the hospital, but my method now grows in Academies of Dance and Pilates Studios in Latin America, Europe, the United States and Asia. I am grateful to the medical doctors as well as the patients of the hospital who gave the opportunity to help and in so doing help me grow as a businesswoman and as a human being.
MEET TAMARA DI TELLA
Tamara DI Tella is a world-renowned expert in the Tamara Di Tella Pilates and Tangolates (Tango Pilates) methods. She is the Director of the Tamara Di Tella Schools of Training where "teachers of teachers" form and certify young instructors-to-be. She is the Drector of the Pilates teacher training Education Course Certified Teacher or Instructor Training Center.
Tamara’s first book --The Tamara Di Tella Pilates Method-- was the first book on Pilates written in the Spanish Language, when the overwhelming majority of books written on Pilates are exclusively for the English speaking population. Her second book, The Tamara Di Tella Method, Tangolates and Tango PIlates, was published in both the English and the Spanish language.
Tamara Di Tella was a pioneer. She created a chain of Studios throughout Latin America before the year 2000 when Pilates was still unknown to most people. By the year 2002/ 2003 when Pilates exploded in the fitness market, Tamara already owned several Studios in various countries, including Argentina, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, etc.
Today, Pilates has reached massive international proportions and Tamara Di Tella’s network of Licensed Studios grew in the United States, Europe and also Asia. The Tamara Di Tella School of Training gives certifications in countries as varied as the United States, Panama, Spain, Argentina.
In the year 2004 Tamara Di Tella launched a truly innovative method to called Tangolates® or Tango Pilates. It is a new and revolutionary method that is performed on a functional apparatus called the T-DITELLA®. On this apparatus it is possible to perform over a thousand core control, highly concentrated moves that add a cardio element to Pilates, plus the extra bonus of an irresistible attractive music! The aerobic element makes it more complete system of exercises plus it helps burn more calories and shape and tone the whole body.
While others have only stayed with traditional Pilates, Tamara has decided to one-up it by doing something Joseph Pilates would really appreciate: continue to create or to evolve, as he would say, always in search of new and more challenging workouts and also equipment.
Of course, Tamara Di Tella still provides instruction on Pilates apparatuses like the Reformer, Cadillac, Pilates-Gym (Spine Corrector), Aldotone (Tower), and the like, but she really excels as the creator of a new method, and exercise repertoire, the Tamara Di Tella Tangolates®, and its Apparatus, the T-DITELLA®, which is a functional, portable, stackable apparatus specially designed to perform highly concentrated, core control partner routine: Tangolates® or Tango Pilates.
This new and revolutionary Tamara Di Tella Method targets the following: scapulae, hip flexors, hamstrings, Dorsiflex, hip joint, Latissimus dorsi, pelvic floor, quadriceps, eccentric contraction, lumbar spine, abdominals, gluteus.
The celebrities that have performed The Tamara Di Tella Method are, among others: Sting and his wife Trudy; Bryan Adams, and American Ballet Theater Idol, Julio Bocca.
The Mission of Tamara Di Tella Pilates & Tangolates is to enhance the traditional Pilates offer and go mainstream through innovation, creativity and new venues that are scientifically proven.
Tamara was a pioneer in the world of Pilates in the Spanish speaking world, at a time when the term pilates was unknown to the general Latin American public. In less than ten years, she grew into the world’s largest franchised chain of pilates studios. A born innovator, Tamara has recently introduced the Tamara Di Tella Tangolates which is taking the United Stated and Europe by storm. This new and revolutionary method is based on an apparatus specially created by Tamara Di Tella –the T-DITELLA™-- that accommodates two clients in exciting partner routines…choreographed to the music of Tango. “I continued working to incorporate new and exciting venues and I thought that a cardio element in general, and Tango in particular, would make of traditional pilates even more attractive”.
Tamara is a Ph.D. candidate from Stanford University and is the daughter of a prestigious neurologist of Russian origin. Her company donated a Rehab Room to the Institute of Applied Neurosciences. Working with patients she discovered that partner exercises helped then move, and that the use of a concentrated highly focused rhythm like Tango also made a big difference. After much trial and error and with the guidance of medical doctors Tamara created Tangolates to evolve the original method. Thus Tangolates was born in a hospital with patients with severe dysfunctions of the nervous system
Tamara Di Tella has hosted some of the world’s most famous celebrities, such a Julio Bocca of the American Ballet Company, Sting, the famous international rock star; and Bryan Adams, the most popular Canadian singer. She teaches theory of movement based on her own experience with patients at a hospital where her company has donated a Rehabilitation Room. Tamara is currently the President of TAMARA DI TELLA Pilates and Tangolates a world’s chain of Studios throughout Europe, The United States, Latin America and Asia. The Tamara Di Tella Method is an innovative and prestigious system of exercises based on the combination of traditional Pilates with cardiovascular or aerobic component.
