Martin Buchmann
Martin has been active in sports since his youth. He has practised athletics, triathlon, cycling, skiing and football at competitive level. He sought closeness to sports and movement also in his profession – Martin worked for the sports manufacturer Adidas for over twelve years in sports promotion. At the end of 2003 he began Pilates training after surgery in the back. He could experience the effectiveness of this integral training method in his own body. In 2004 Martin began training at the Pilates Academy of Switzerland to become a Pilates personal trainer to teach on the mat and on all apparatus,, and he was certified in 2006. He also acquired extensive knowledge of anatomy, physiology and pathology at Bio-Medica, a school for western and far-eastern medicine. Martin has been teaching Pilates since February 2005, working in his own studio -bd pilates studio- since the beginning of 2008.
martin@bdpilatesstudio.ch
  Yasemin Karaboga
Yasemin completed a certification programme in 2000 to become an aerobics instructor by the S.A.F.S (Swiss Academy of Fitness and Sports) and has been teaching private and group courses since then. At the end of 2002 she was certified as a health/fitness instructor by the American College of Sports Medicine ASCM at the Institute for Sports and Sports Science, University of Basel. The focus of this course included anatomy, physiology and pathology. Concurrently, Yasemin discovered Pilates as an ideal training for herself and attended various workshops. Her enthusiasm for Pilates inspired her to go through the training programme at Pilates Academy of Switzerland to become a Pilates personal trainer. At the beginning of 2005 she completed her training to teach on the mat and on all Pilates apparatus. Since March 2008, Yasemin has been teaching in the bd pilates studio in German, English and Turkish.
yasemin@bdpilatesstudio.ch
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