Club Pilates

Bios

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  Pam Petrosky

  Instructor
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  Neela Forzisi

  Instructor

  Neela Forzisi is a Pilates Method Alliance (PMA®) Certified Pilates Teacher. She received her Pilates education from Peak Pilates in 2011. She is also a 500-hour Registered Yoga Teacher specializing in therapeutically-oriented yoga and a Certified Personal Trainer and Fitness Nutrition Specialist with the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM®).She also holds two certifications in TRX® Suspension Training ® and in both Keiser and Schwinn cycling programs. She subsequently went on to receive a Masters in Pilates Teaching Diploma in 2015. She coaches all types of individuals from athletes to the idler, teenager to senior.

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  Jodi Swindle

  Instructor

  Jodi walked into Club Pilates last year shortly after the doors opened as a new member. She started coming every day, and sometimes multiple times per day! At the time she was in search of a new opportunity and career change and decided to embark on the teacher training through Club Pilates. She began her training in September of 2018, started teaching as an apprentice teacher in January 2019, and was fully certified in March of 2019. Fitness has been a part of Jodi’s life for as long as she can remember. She danced as a child and was on a dance team in college, taught step aerobics in the 90’s, practiced yoga regularly, and taught Nia technique as a Green Belt instructor. She is also a certified Integral Life Coach with a focus on somatic awareness and building the mind/body connection. What Jodi loves most about teaching is the connection to her clients. She considers it a privilege to guide them through their practice. To see clients begin walking through life with stronger posture, more balance in the body, less aches and pains, and a greater sense of well-being is the best reward.

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  Dorothy Stewart

  Instructor

  Her history as an Instructor began at a young age when she started teaching Dance in 1972. She continued on with her formal Dance Career and Education as a Theater Arts Major at San Jose State University until at age 19, she was diagnosed with scoliosis, when she decided to give up dancing rather than undergo major spinal surgery and instead pursued a career in the fitness industry. In 1992, she and her husband relocated to Dallas, where she began training in the Pilates Method. She has studied with Master Pilates Teacher Nationwide, including Romana Kryzanowska, Kathy Grant, Sari Pace and Ron Fletcher, and conducted advanced teacher training workshops for local and national studios and the Cooper Institute for Aerobic Research. She is Certified through the Pilates Institute (1995), the American Council on Exercise (ACE 1991), and is a Traditional Thai Yoga Bodywork Practitioner (2007). She launched the Pilates Mat program for the Cooper Fitness Center in the 1990′s, growing the program from one class to eight-weekly classes within a few months. The program continued to flourish and she was the lead instructor for several years until she moved on to create Personal Pilates Plus. Dorothy also has a Yoga practice, loving the personal benefits of Yoga as well as its complementary role with Pilates. She has taken Teacher Training Courses with Shiva Rea, John Friend (Anusara Yoga) and YogaFit Levels 1 and 2. She later added the practice of Thai Yoga Body Work to her repertoire. The successful practice of Pilates will enable you to experience the Joy of Movement in whatever form that takes for you! Dorothy’s Clients enjoy her ability to tailor the Pilates Work to specific goals, needs, injuries, fitness levels and individual style, making the Pilates Work enjoyable, accessible, effective and fun!

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  Jacki Lamothe

  Master Trainer/Instructor

  Jacki started working in the fitness industry in 2002 teaching Power Yoga and Trekking classes. Shortly after, she was introduced to Pilates and was hooked. Jacki believes that Pilates is all about postural balancing and her approach to this is through functional training using muscle confusion. She focuses on building a strong core of support for the body, strengthening the weaker long muscles and lengthening the shorter strong muscles. She aspires not only to train her clients but also to educate them to use and understand the Pilates methodology. Her goal for them is to incorporate it into their day to day activities or apply it to their sport specific events. In her free time she enjoys doing triathlons. Her motto in life is “you rest you rust”.

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  Bernadett Gazsi

  Instructor

  Bernadett began practicing Pilates for physical therapy after a lower back injury in 2010 while she was living in Sydney, Australia. Once she healed her own body Bernadett moved to Melbourne, Australia where she studied and trained as a STOTT Pilates instructor and received her Matwork certification. Bernadett relocated to the United States in 2013. She lives in Allen with her husband and her son. She got her Reformer Certification in 2014 when she was 6 months pregnant. Pilates was love at first sight for Bernadett. She was intrigued and amazed how Pilates changed her body and also quickly realized she had body awareness which positively influenced her whole life. Our posture effects our everyday life how you stand how you walk how you sit in the car and how you hold your baby in your arms. In every session, Bernadett emphasizes proper form, breathing, and alignment to safely challenge her clients while building proper techniques and bio mechanics for maximum performance and injury prevention.

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  Jeri Kay Hanson

  Apprentice Instructor

  I became interested in Pilates after suffering much back pain which ended in a fusion of my lumbar back. I had been to physical therapy and discovered that really the Pilates moves were what helped my back. I graduated from ASU with a bachelors in nursing so I have spent over 20 years helping people with their disease processes. I am now very excited to help rehabilitate clients with the magic of Pilates!

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  Kim Carothers

  Apprentice Instructor

  Kim started her fitness journey as an internationally competitive synchronized swimmer in her teens, qualifying for Olympic trials at age 16. Movement health and wellness have been her journey ever since. While attending the University of New Mexico she earned a Bachelor's of Fine Arts (she teaches sculpting and sells her work in McKinney TX) and a Bachelor's of Science in Occupational Therapy. She is also certified as an International level 1 Instructor of Kundalini Yoga and a Reiki master. Her journey to becoming a pilates instructor started 12 years ago while searching for ways to recover from a back injury. She discovered how effective the method is for balancing the musculoskeletal system and the mind body connection with breath work blends well with her background in yoga and Occupational Therapy. Kim is eager to help others achieve balance through working with the mind, body, and breath. She completes her Pilates certification in the fall of 2019.

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  Sharon Freeman

  Instructor

  Sharon Freeman, owner of studio180 pilates, LLC, discovered her love of Pilates and, subsequent movement modalities, while recovering from the effects of chemotherapy and surgery for Ovarian Cancer. The method helped to regain strength and flexibility as well as finding positive focus through the mind/body connection. As a result, Sharon was hooked. After a variety of careers, including corporate and non-profit training, Sharon knew she wanted to pursue a different path. Her love of dance and body movement had always been a hobby that she decided to turn into a new career. She also wanted to use her new found sense of wellness to continue to help herself, and others, move through whatever life stages we encounter. Sharon has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and completed post-graduate work towards an MBA in Business Management at Texas A&M at Corpus Christi. She has dedicated herself to life-long learning and now continually seeks out mind and body wellness education and techniques to add to her repertoire. Her movement and fitness education to date includes the following certifications/trainings: STOTT PILATES Full Certification, Including Injuries and Special Populations, Pink Ribbon Program Certified Breast Cancer Post-Operative Exercise Specialist, Total Barre Certified Instructor, MELT Certified Instructor. Sharon has also completed numerous workshop trainings in corrective/modified exercise modalities regarding shoulder, knee and lumbo-pelvic issues. Other education has included kinetic sling work and myofascial lines.