About

Penelope Wasserman

Penelope Wasserman currently teaches restorative Pilates and tap dancing in Carmel, California and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her love of all things dance began when she was 4 years old in Syracuse, New York and put on her first pairs of ballet slippers and tap shoes. Throughout the years she never stopped taking classes and prior to her Pilates teaching career also taught tap and creative movement to children and adults. Integrating dance into her Pilates classes inspired her performing arts specialties for over 2 decades at her studios in Albany, NY and western Massachusetts and now in Philadelphia, PA. She has also taught Pilates as an adjunct professor at the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY. This also led to her interest in helping young people protect their bones through SAFE movement education, her passion to prevent osteoporosis through this curriculum, and her idea for Sea and Flour.

She is the founder of Million Dollar Bones and the President of Sea & Flour, a new company that is the first to integrate seaweed into the commercial baking process and is truly the bread of the future. Delicious, high in bone healthy nutrients and also carbon negative, it is a business that she is very proud of. She is also a managing consultant at Changing Tastes where she creates campaigns and strategies to promote social and ecological restoration using food as her medium as well as integrating multi-sensory awareness and physical alignment to in-person decision making, training, and other experiences. She also oversees Changing Taste’s brand strategy and design.

Penelope’s work on aligning consumer understanding and market recognition for fair treatment of workers as well as for regenerative agriculture and aquaculture has been integrated into a host of social marketing efforts as well as her presentation at the Blue Economy plenary of the Business of Conservation Conference of the African Leadership Institute in Rwanda (2019). She has developed the Thank You Africa program at Changing Tastes.

Penelope brings her unique background in movement, somatic observation, and fracture prevention into meetings and takes the lead integrating safe and simple concepts to facilitate wellness and joy into previously confined business settings. Penelope also teaches workshops for teams and organizations that invite wellness into the corporate environment in an effort to offer a sustainability platform for the people who are trying to keep our resources alive.

Penelope has been a featured presenter at the Meeks Method Annual conferences in Sundance, Utah, and Baltimore, Maryland where she first introduced Million Dollar Bones  to the physical therapy community while she was a National Osteoporosis Foundation support group leader in Albany, New York and where she started the first NOF Teen support group in the country. She is a Leadership Ambassador for the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation. Her work in gentle Pilates, gentle dance, and scoliosis management has been featured internationally in presentations by Dr. Suzanne Martin, PT for the Pilates Method Alliance and on Brett Miller’s “Pilates Intel” website, Margie Bissinger’s “Happy Bones Happy Life podcast, Dr. John Neustadt’s NBI podcast and as an editor for his book titled “Fracture-Proof Your Bones” and a guest expert for the Bone Health and Osteoporosis Foundation podcast and newsletter. She presents and teaches on the national and global stage. She also served on the Eli Lilly & Company’s Mobility Advisory Board. She developed the Million Dollar Bones and “Internal Alignment Awareness” training programs in an effort to teach healthy, safe alignment techniques and prevent osteoporosis related fractures.

She has a B.S. degree from Syracuse University and has trained extensively through Pilates Therapeutics. She is a Meeks Method osteoporosis exercise specialist.