Sabine's love for teaching reaches back to 1989, when she taught aerobics in Germany in the first gym of her small hometown.  While studying kinesiology and sports medicine, she started teaching dance and muscle conditioning in Frankfurt to supplement her income.   In 1995, two weeks before coming to Long Beach to study dance for a semester at CSULB, she had to have a third knee surgery, the result of a ski accident that had happened in 1987.  The dean of the dance dept. then recommended Pilates classes that were offered for the first time by Susan McLain, a former member of the Martha Graham Dance Co.  Sabine was addicted at the first class, and it has been her passion ever since.  She decided to stay and pursue her degree in dance, and Pilates has always been an essential part of her dance conditioning and rehabilitation.  While studying, Sabine was introduced to the ball workout in 1998, and, recognizing the huge benefit, she started team teaching ball- and Pilates classes in various gyms in the area.  Continued problems with her knee and a fourth surgery in her last semester in 2000 forced her to quit dancing and to redirect her focus to teaching.  She received her Pilates certification in 2001 from Long Beach Dance Conditioning and has since been teaching mat- and equipment classes and privates.  She brought the ball workout to Frogs, Long Beach in 2002 and taught it twice a week to the day Frogs closed its doors in December 2010.  Currently Sabine is teaching at Vero Pilates, a beautiful boutique studio in Belmont Heights and at the Student Recreation and Wellness Center at California State University Long Beach.  Due to popular demand she has also been teaching  monthly 2 hour ball masterclasses.