Your Instructor

Saphi Gonzalez is the founder and instructor of APT 111, a private home Pilates studio dedicated to 1:1 personalized training and community building. Blending her contemporary certification with Classical Pilates training from New York City, Saphi delivers precise, motivational sessions tailored to help each client build strength, flexibility, and control while discovering their true, centered form. Her thoughtful, expert approach ensures every lesson is transformative and deeply personal.

Beyond the studio, Saphi serves as a Board Member of the Breakthrough Miami Alumni Network and as its Social Media & Marketing Director, where she drives community engagement and advocacy. Her commitment to hospitality, individualized attention, and community-building is at the heart of every experience at APT 111.

Welcome to APT 111: Align Pilates Training, our private home studio where the tradition of hospitality that began with friends and family flourishes in an intimate, refined setting. The name “APT” is especially meaningful—it stands for both “apartment,” reflecting our warm, residential space, and “Align Pilates Training,” the heart of our studio’s philosophy. The number 111 symbolizes new beginnings and the unique, welcoming environment we’ve created for your practice.

Each session at APT 111 is thoughtfully tailored to celebrate your personal milestones and support your journey to strength and alignment. Experience Pilates in a warm, exclusive environment where community is nurtured, curiosity about the method is ever-present, and your goals are our shared pursuit. With a discerning eye and expert guidance, we’ll help you discover your body’s potential, one precise movement at a time.

Expertise

  • Program Design: Footwork & Hundred

    This workshop focused on honing assessment and problem-solving skills within the Footwork & the Hundred. By taking the knowledge acquired through an assessment and coupling it with our progression principles and some creativity to create comprehensive exercise programs for our clients. The primary aim of this workshop was to provide an interactive, collaborative, and intensive learning experience, where we blended theory with practical application.

    New York City, NY

  • Classical Tower Variations

    This workshop is designed to help teach a multi-level class and recognize how and when to progress a clients to the next level of movement which variations. When designing a program, we follow the horizontal to vertical progression, and always end standing.

    Boca Raton, FL

  • Lessons, Lecture & Application - Stomach Massage Series

    The lectures will be focused on exercise prescription for a client’s Stomach Massage Series which involve assessment skills, practical application, and exercise selection of Stomach Massage Series variations on the auxiliary apparatus that best suit a client’s needs.

    New York City, NY

  • Toys & Small Apparatus Workshop

    From the Toe Corrector to the Neck Stretcher: Explore the often-overlooked gadgets developed by Joseph Pilates to enhance the Pilates practice. This workshop delves into their unique functions, intended purposes, and proper applications, offering a deeper understanding of these ingenious tools.

    Boca Raton, FL

  • Hundred, Frogs, and Leg Circles

    The focus of this workshop will have a greater emphasis on utilizing Footwork & Hundred data to create comprehensive exercise programs following our progression principles. We will focus on exercise alignment, proper execution, and understanding the purposes of the exercises. This will also provide insight into learning assessment skills to gauge a client’s abilities such as range of motion and stability

    New York City, NY

  • The Romana Tapes™: The Hip

    Classical Pilates cueing and hands on workshop. By watching Romana teaching this workshop from the early 1990's for approximately 2 hours of observing Romana teaching on using the system for people with hip issues. Then 3 hours of using, analyzing and practicing her cueing and hands on techniques. We watched, then practiced, then watched more and practice more for better integration of the material.

    Miami, FL

  • Mastering the Intermediate Reformer

    In this intimate 12-person workshop, participants explored the purpose of each exercise and their role in effective instruction and individualized program design. They learned to teach each exercise with clarity, apply hands-on techniques, and incorporate appropriate regressions and progressions, with opportunities to practice, teach, and observe the exercises on a diverse student body. The deep dive into the Intermediate Reformer refined skills, elevated instruction, and inspired both personal practice and client progress.

    New York City, NY

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with their soul

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