02/04/2026
In 2016, after working at New Ballet Ensemble for 6 years, I opened my first small studio in the Victorian Village that I named Balance Point Pilates. I taught private lessons there for two years until the heartbreaking death of my father-in-law. Upon his passing we sold the building and I closed my little quiet studio. I then went to study and work with the powerful gifted women at Sundara wellness center. Working with acupuncturists, Candace Billings and Jessica Pucket and the true guru of wemon’s pelvic health, Amy Moses altered my teaching deeply and for the better. The opportunity to work with the extremely gifted Bobbi Carter at the Healing Point in 2021 was also hugely impactful, and I consider her a great teacher of mine.
Now, after four years in my in-home studio I am feeling compelled to pivot back to my original business name. It's actually very dear to my heart.
As a beloved Pilates mat exercise, Balance Point holds the essence of the principals of Pilates that I endeavor to teach/share in my classes and sessions. Namely, the concept of "Taking Root To Fly". This idea is borrowed from the great choreographer, Irene Dowd's book on functional anatomy. She writes poetically about dropping into gravity as the method through which we reach up out of it.
Learning to feel some bones rooted in gravity while others lift up out of it is the way that we all maintain this human posture. I hope to assist folks in developing a keen sense of when and how our core assists us in creating that oppositional force to decompress our joints, even as gravity compresses them. That control of opposites is the secret key to fluidity and grace in movement. For me, Balance Point is the Pilates pose that most directly teaches this effort.
I think it's risky to change a business name but in this case, I am only returning to my authentic self!
