During my whole life of active sports, dancing, Pilates, and GYROTONIC® my biggest motivation has always been to get people moving. I always believed them could do better than they could. It was my greatest pleasure to guide them and see how achieve their goals.
Moving is the easiest way to get to know and express ourselves. It connects us to life. We can free our body, our soul, and our mind by moving.
On this endless journey, if you love to move and want to learn to teach, you're ready to start a whole new chapter in your life.
Love to all my fellow instructors who are on their way to discover their reality…
Elçin Arıkaner
Who is Elçin Arıkaner?
She started her sports life as a goalkeeper for Mersin Camspor Women's Football Team, the oldest amateur football school in Mersin, whose father, Murat Arıkaner, is also the founding president and coach. In eight years of football life, she built the foundation of her profession, taking both a model leader and a model of her father.
In 1996, she qualified for the Women's Umit National Team of Turkey and went to the European Cup Quarterfinals of the Women's Football League in Norway.
Elçin Arıkaner, who decided to pursue her passion after her years of sports, started her dance life at the Cukurova University Physical Education and Sports Academy, where she graduated in 2001.
Elçin Arıkaner and her friends created a dance team in inter-university sports games, and they won multiple degrees. After her graduation, she signed many dance and fitness organizations in Mersin. She learned from world-renowned instructors on dance sports and dance halls. Afro-step, capoeira, hip-hop, dance aerobic, salsa, tae-bo and taught a lot of lessons, like cardio kick, bosu, Pilates matwork.
In 2004, she auditioned for the famous dance company "Sultan's of the Dance" and she earned the right to join the group. While she was working with them, she met Pilates. The exercise system has begun to become common among dancers. Pilates now was known as the invention of the century in the fitness world.
Elçin Arıkaner, who was interested in this exercise to improve his dance posture, saw its benefits both in herself and her students and worked with expert instructors in this field. In 2004, she received training in dance and pilates in Boston. She completed the full Pilates Instructor Certificate Program with Judy Orlandella Ataman in 2006.
To deepen her knowledge of the movement system, she took "General Anatomy" and "Upper Extremity" classes of the master's program of Mersin University Faculty of Medicine.
In 2011, she moved to New York for regenerating herself and experience different movement systems.During this time period she mostly attracted to GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® which was created by Juliu Horvathis. She convinced that this systhem is as well as the most closest to the human nature, also is the most complete movement systhem.
After she completed her training and gain her Pre-Trainer degree with Israeli-based Master Ronny Perry Nadav in New York she returned to Turkey. After she returned to Turkey, Elçin Arıkaner has started to work as a GYROTONIC® Pre-Trainer, and trained trainers). Besides this work, at the same time, she gathered all her knowledge and experiments under the name of EAPILATESMETHOD with which she organizes training of the next generation of Pilates and Motion instructors