Pamela Shanti Pack
Pamela Shanti Pack is a Pilates instructor, movement specialist, professional climber, and writer with over two decades of experience in athletic performance, biomechanics, and outdoor adventure.
Pamela has practiced Pilates for more than 17 years and has dedicated her teaching career to helping athletes, active adults, and outdoor enthusiasts move more efficiently, build resilience, and perform at a higher level. She has completed over 500 hours of comprehensive BASI Pilates training and is currently completing her Balanced Body Comprehensive certification and NASM Certified Personal Trainer coursework.
Her teaching philosophy blends classical Pilates principles, biomechanics, strength training, and athletic performance. Drawing from a lifetime of high-level athletic experience, Pamela specializes in helping clients develop core strength, stability, movement efficiency, and long-term physical resilience. She works with climbers, outdoor athletes, active adults, seniors, and individuals seeking intelligent, movement-based training grounded in both science and real-world application.
In addition to her Pilates career, Pamela is one of the most accomplished offwidth climbers in the world. Since 2008, she has pursued some of North America’s most challenging offwidth and adventure climbs. In 2009, she became the first woman in the world to climb 5.13 offwidth and received the prestigious Golden Piton Award for establishing Gabriel in Zion National Park, the first 5.13 offwidth established by either a man or woman.
Over the course of her climbing career, Pamela has established more than 300 first ascents throughout the American West and completed numerous significant first female ascents of hard offwidth routes. She is also the founder of the nationally recognized Art of Offwidth Clinics, which have introduced hundreds of climbers to the specialized techniques of offwidth climbing. Since 2015, she has taught clinics throughout the American West and has volunteered her time teaching at the Moab Cragging Classic, women’s clinics, adaptive athlete programs, youth programs, and clinics serving diverse climbing communities.
Before becoming a full-time coach and professional athlete, Pamela worked as a hydrographic surveyor in the Bering Sea and offshore Alaska. She also holds professional training in GIS and Remote Sensing and continues to write, teach, and develop educational programs focused on movement, performance, and exploration.
Today, Pamela teaches Pilates in Moab, Utah, while continuing to climb, establish new routes, guide Art of Offwidth Clinics, and develop specialized performance programs for climbers and athletes.