About Tania

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.

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 National Pilates Certification Program (formerly the Pilates Method Alliance). This is the only third-party certification available to Pilates professionals and is based in the USA.

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In 2022, Tania published her first book: Teach Pilates with Confidence. In 2026, she published Pilates & Purpose. Tania believes in sharing her knowledge through her coaching programmes. She will help you craft an approach for teaching or running a business that is uniquely you.