Deborah West
Deborah West | Years in the Business: 11
Certifications: Glenn Studio/Goodbodies/Peak Pilates Certified
Specialties/Focus in Training: I love training athletes and sport specific work, love training beginners with a strong commitment to Pilates. |
Highlights/Accomplishments: Certifying instructors with Peak Pilates, training high level athletes and one celebrity (who wanted to move me to LA!)
Favorites: Sport: Road Biking; Hobby: Reading (lots and everything); Food: Tex-Mex! |
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Desi Ray
Desi Ray | Years in the Business: 11
Certifications: Certified Pilates Instructor Glenn Studio/Goodbodies
Specialties/Focus in Training: I truly enjoy being a Pilates instructor and being part of the process of creating a stronger and healthier body, and love to work with anybody who is ready to start this process. |
Highlights/Accomplishments: I have been dancing my way through life, and my finished my apprenticeship as certified cook with the American Culinary Federation. I am most proud of my beautiful daughters!!
Favorites: Love red wine, good chocolate and life itself |
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Leighanne Swaverly
Leighanne Swaverly | Years in the Business: 2
Certifications: Certification in progress with Michele Larsson's Core Dynamics Studio in Santa Fe, NM
Specialties/Focus in Training: I like to focus on the basic concepts and classical repertoire of Pilates |
Highlights/Accomplishments: Learning Pilates and all things related; meeting great people along the way / getting certified next spring!
Favorites: Food& Wine, Art & Architecture, Austin! |
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Mandie Pitre
Mandie Pitre | Years in the Business: 7
Certifications: Wendy Leblanc Arbuckle, Second generation master pilates teacher, "Core Connections" teacher training program.
Specialties/Focus in Training: Rehabilitative Pilates, improving performance of athletes, having everyday people feel like champions in their bodies, creating holistic transformation via Pilates. |
Highlights/Accomplishments: I am a dancer and choreographer and have spent years using Pilates to transform my body and transform my dancing. I also have had the great fortune of training and working for one of the finest pilates masters in the country. What I have to offer is not only an athletic workout but the knowledge to take any person's body and have them reach their potential regardless of age, athletic background, and body type. I am your personal cheerleader!
Favorites: Dancing, choreographing, my community of peers and friends, my two Chihuahuas, the late swim at Barton Springs and, the margaritas at Polvos with good friends! |
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Mel Glouchkova
Mel Glouchkova | Years in the Business: 12
Certifications: Certified Pilates Instructor: Glenn Studios/GoodBodies
Specialties/Focus in Training: I enjoy working with all types of people as long as they are focused and truly wanting to learn. I do well with athletes – both men and women – as well as teenagers. I love working with new students, too – bringing awareness to their bodies and minds. I also enjoy working with dancers. |
Highlights/Accomplishments: Danced professionally for too many years, still teach ballet in the private sector, participated in the Kirov Ballet's "Glasnost Buddies" – which allowed me to take class with them – awesome!!!! Drank coffee with Robert Joffrey at Denny's in San Antonio, my two beautiful children with my wonderfully nutty hubby, Vlad, and my secondary education certification. Too many things to list!
Favorites: Turquoise blues and greens are my favorite colors, LOVE dance, music of all genres except country, red wine and m&m's and icing with a little cake underneath it. Love to travel, museums, cats – I could be that crazy cat lady, (actually all animals), Mickey, dry humor, reading – anything really – but Nelson Demille is one of my favs., good movies (too many favorites) and of course, Grey's Anatomy and So you think you can dance!!!! |
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Montserrat Gonzalez
Montserrat Gonzalez | Years in the Business: 4
Certifications: Certified Core Bodyworks, Acworth, GA, 600 Hour Certification program; Classic and Contemporary Style
Independent Studio under the direction of Lisa Browning, Pilates Inc certified
Specialties/Focus in Training: I love to teach people how to communicate with their own bodies. My passion lies in facilitating a fun and interesting environment to explore what each individual body has to say. My favorite thing to see is the look on someone's face when they really get the intention of a movement and then take it into their everyday life experience! |
Highlights/Accomplishments:
Favorites: Color: Purple; Loves: Sunny days and Barton Springs; Hobby: Dancing! |
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Stephanie Wright
Stephanie Wright | Years in the Business: 5
Certifications: Certified Stott Pilates: Essential, Intermediate, Advanced Mat work; Essential, Int/Adv Reformer; and Injury and Special Populations; Full Certification by STOTT Pilates International
Specialties/Focus in Training: I truly enjoy being able to make Pilates more accessible. It is a privilege for me to pull a group of people into a room and make them work together. The experience is different in a great way. Turning what is usually a solo into an ensemble creates infinite possibilities. |
Highlights/Accomplishments: Biggest accomplishment is letting go of drinking 52 ounces of coffee a day
Favorites: Color: Fuschia; Loves: My flat iron and coffee |
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