Tania Huddart is a Master Pilates Instructor, a Nationally certified Pilates teacher (NCPT), and the owner of Hearts and Bones Pilates® Centre. She came to Pilates training through a career in teaching dance.
Tania started her Pilates training in the mid-1990s in London with the acclaimed Pilates instructor Lesley Ackland and then continued her training through The PhysicalMind Institute in the USA, qualifying as a Pilates instructor in The Method® Pilates in 2000. The Institute, founded in 1991, is deeply rooted in the pioneering body conditioning work done by Joseph Pilates, his wife Clara, and their original studio team in New York. The training is based on the work of Eve Gentry, an original Master Instructor who had worked with Joseph Pilates for 22 years.
Tania returned to New Zealand and established Hearts and Bones Pilates Centre in 2002. The following year, she undertook further training with the PhysicalMind Institute in New York and became a Master Pilates Instructor (qualified to teach Pilates instructors).
In 2008, she became the first New Zealand Pilates instructor certified through the Pilates Method Alliance. The programme was rebranded in 2019 as the National Pilates Certification Program. This is the only third-party certification available to Pilates professionals and is based in the USA.