AT THE BODYSHOP
The Pilates Bodyshop is the only Fletcher Pilates® studio in Los Angeles. Conveniently located off the 5 freeway in the neighborhood of Silver Lake, the studio offers Private Lessons, 4x4 (group apparatus lessons), and Studio Classes. It was built with the ideal movement experience in mind with a spacious eco friendly classroom and a large, fully equipped apparatus space which is furnished with handcrafted equipment by Balanced Body. It is the premiere studio in Los Angeles with 2800 square feet, highly educated Qualified Fletcher Pilates® Teachers, and ample parking. At the Bodyshop, you will learn how to move better in an environment that promotes concentration, endurance, exploration of movement, and supports your physical sense of well being. It is simply the most unique studio in Los Angeles and you are invited to come and experience all it has to offer.
“Movement should be approached like life – with enthusiasm, joy and gratitude – for movement is life, and life is movement, and we get out of it what we put into it.” – Ron Fletcher
MEET THE TEACHERS
Kerri
Kerri began her Pilates practice ten years ago after a debilitating car accident left her with multiple complex injuries. She began with the east coast style while attending The University of the Arts, in Philadelphia, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts. She shortly moved to Los Angeles and began a television and film career but found she was always searching for a deeper understanding of the Pilates practice that was keeping her body and mind together.
After completing, and even teaching several teacher-training courses with some of the most respected names in the Pilates field, Kerri came to the work of master teacher Ron Fletcher. She discovered her most profound body transformations with Fletcher Pilates® and through the rigorous and demanding study of his lineage, she finally found the depth of knowledge that she had been seeking. While attending the Ron Fletcher Comprehensive Program of Study™ in Tucson, Arizona she found that Ron’s Seven Standing and Centering Cues and Fletcher Fundamentals allowed her to teach movement in a precise manner so the work could be applied to life outside the studio. She is the Fletcher Pilates® Facilitator for Los Angeles and teaches several licensing courses a year in specific aspects of the Fletcher work.
Her experience as a student of several Pilates styles, a patient, a physical therapy aide, an artist, and a Qualified Fletcher Pilates® Teacher, gives her a singular ability to pass this work on. The opening of her first studio for riders in early 2009 was the reintroduction of the Fletcher Pilates® lineage to Los Angeles. With the opening of The Pilates Bodyshop, she is creating the space she so longed for during her own journey. It is her privilege and honor to be teaching this work, evolved directly from Joseph and Clara Pilates, passed to Ron Fletcher, and now to her and her teachers.
Teresa
Teresa was first introduced to Pilates mat at a young age as a dancer. After moving to Los Angeles to pursue her dance career, she sought out a way to condition her body without building bulk and remembered how much she had enjoyed the mat work. She started taking private lessons on the Pilates apparatus and immediately felt and saw the positive transformation in her own body. Longing for a way to make a career out of movement, but running out of desire to dance professionally, she decided to commit herself to her Pilates practice and successfully completed a teacher training program in 2008. She has since become a PMA™ Certified Pilates Teacher and has completed numerous continuing education workshops. Although she completed one of the most popular teacher training programs in Los Angeles, she always yearned for more and wanted to “fill in the missing pieces.” She fell in love with the Fletcher Pilates® method after completing a licensing course in Fletcher Towelwork™, an integral part of the Fletcher work. She has successfully completed Level I of The Ron Fletcher Comprehensive Program of Study™ and looks forward to completing the program this year. She is honored to be building upon her knowledge and learning the work of a first generation master teacher. It has given her the tools to teach people how to change their body through movement and she now feels she is learning the entire body of work; the way Joseph and Clara Pilates intended.
Meredith
Meredith came to the pilates world six years ago through Kerri Campbell. After years of tasting her feelings and living an adult sedentary lifestyle, she decided to play roller derby as a physical means to a thinner end. For almost three years her esthetics client Kerri became tired of watching Meredith gimp around with various roller derby injuries and banked track related asymmetries. Meredith decided to try a non-violent method to physical fitness and worked the work with Kerri not only though her derby career but after the hits were over. A major car accident in July of 2010 was the catalyst that pushed her into the path to teach. It was time to not just do, but to do it well and help others live without constant pain (as well as wrangle in some of the ADD). Moving better through this lifetime has been the reoccurring theme throughout her Fletcher Program of Study. She enjoys watching people make little transitions from the studio work to their daily life, with the constant awareness and rewards it brings.
RON FLETCHER