Biography

PILATES BIO:

Caitlin Purvis is a trauma-informed classically trained Pilates Teacher who is also certified in Pain Reprocessing Therapy. Caitlin is based in Vancouver, British Columbia and teaches both in person and online via ZOOM.

Caitlin is driven to provide a unique tailored experience to clients in a safe environment. She is a true believer of the benefits associated with maintaining a regular Pilates practice having seen the results on clients she works with and having used Pilates as a tool to overcome chronic pain, injuries, illness and trauma herself. Pilates is a mind, body and spirit practice which can lead to a life full of joyful movement. She endeavours to help clients experience this too.

Caitlin did the Dianne Miller Pilates Teacher Training Program, is certified by both Know Your Body Pilates Inc. (Vancouver Pilates Centre) and by the internationally recognized National Pilates Certification (out of the USA). She was trained in Classical Pilates and uses a combination of classical and modern Pilates in her practice. She also worked alongside a physiotherapist for 2 years teaching Clinical Pilates.

Additionally, Caitlin Purvis has continued to educate herself by taking workshops such as: Spine Anatomy & Core Basics, Freedom of the Shoulders, Hip Connections, Pilates for Scoliosis, Understand the Pelvic Floor, and the Myth and Science of Breath. She has completed Level 1, 2, and 3 of trauma informed training from the Trauma Informed Practice Institute and is certified in Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT).

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MUSIC BIO:

Caitlin Purvis, is a singer-songwriter from Vancouver,  Canada who has been making music since childhood.

Caitlin was singing as soon as she could speak and began composing songs when she was 4 years old as a means of expression and simply because it brought her joy.  This has never changed. 

Since then, Caitlin has lived in many countries around the world and travelled to many more, always with her guitar in tow and journal at her side. She’s written hundreds of songs, many lost in the wind and others scribble down.  Her live performances have been saved for inspired moments of spontaneity; she has performed at open mics locally and abroad, bars in Colima, Mexico, and one special performance opening for Riders on the Storm (aka The Doors) at Casa de la Cultura in Ecuador. 
That is another story in itself, read about it here.

Caitlin was always encouraged to record her music and to pursue her passion, yet there was always something holding her back – Fear.

In 2015, a medical condition forced her to face this fear because another lay in its wake.  Fear of failure, fear of success or simply fear of being heard; it  no longer mattered and all of a sudden seemed trivial. She knew it was now or never as her voice might never be the same. 

And so this EP: Wasting Days came to be.  This five song collection remains authentic, organic, and vulnerable.  Caitlin considers herself a girl of the world and one with many tastes, so wanting to remain true to herself, Caitlin decided not be typecast into a particular genre. It is her voice that is the constant throughout her music and what bridges the genres: Pop, soul, boot-stomping (as she likes to call it) reggae and folk. These songs are just a taste of what Caitlin has to offer. 

Please have a listen, enjoy, and send her a message.