Pilates Instructors | Vibe Pilates

Ally received her Pilates Certification at Concentric Studio in Los Angeles in 2002. Her training is based on the Ron Fletcher Method, which is rooted in the classical while allowing for more creativity. Trained on all apparatus, Ally enjoys using a variety of movements to develop strength, stability, balance, spinal alignment, and total body awareness. Her most rewarding aspect of teaching is challenging clients to recognize their perceived limitations and push past them! Ally hopes to inspire people to change old habits and create wellness in their lives. With a background in dance and a BFA in Theater Arts/Film, she brings both sensibility and amusement to her work. Ally believes that great changes can be made with a lot of determination—along with a bit of humor. Her motto: “Work hard, laugh always!”

After an early career as a modern and classical dancer in New York City, Dani’s love for movement eventually transformed into a deep passion for Pilates, and a lifelong dedication to the practice as a classically trained instructor. Teaching in Florida for the past several years, she gained invaluable experience and deep insights, which she’s grateful to now share with the Vibe community. Combining her experience in dance with her love of Pilates, she brings exuberance and life into her classrooms, a quality one can’t help but feel when taking her classes. Beyond her dedication to Pilates, she’s also a proud step-mom!—and proud to share that her step-son is now in medical school and her step-daughter is currently training in the field of aviation. Having recently moved to Tega Cay along with her husband and their puppy, Pepper Bean, Dani feels honored to be a teacher at Vibe, and finds joy in helping her students become their healthiest, happiest selves.

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Gregory is passionate about movement and feels fortunate to have found, in the fundamentals of the Pilates practice, a methodology that understands movement itself as the foundation of a healthy lifestyle. A native of Buffalo, NY, he first came to the practice in his early 20s while living in Los Angeles. Dogged by old sports injuries, Pilates proved a powerful means for healing and strengthening his body. Believing he’d stumbled upon something truly revolutionary, it wasn’t long before he decided to become a teacher, so he could share what he'd found with others. Gregory was classically certified in 2013 through the Equinox Pilates Teacher Training Institute, and in the decade-plus since has worked with teacher-mentors from several ideologies across the larger Pilates spectrum. Moving back east in 2018, he spent a year living, writing and teaching in Sag Harbor before ultimately moving to NYC—the city where, in the 1920s, an eccentric German immigrant named Joseph Hubertus Pilates opened a gym and began formally teaching his then-revolutionary methodology. Inspired by the language of Joe's original method—Contrology, as “...complete coordination of body, mind and spirit”—Gregory teaches Pilates' work as a living, ever-evolving fitness philosophy, grounded in the belief that breath and movement are our best tools for achieving overall wellbeing. Having recently relocated to the Charlotte area, he is deeply grateful to now share his passion for Pilates with the Tega Cay-Fort Mill community.

Lindsay, a native South African and former Brit, moved to Charlotte two years ago with her husband and their Romanian rescue pup, Buffy (named after “Buffy the Vampire Slayer!”). Her love for teaching started over 12 years ago with the famous and torturous Beachbody Insanity. She was hooked! Since then she’s taught HIIT, HIITstep, bootcamps, cycling, boxing and various cardio-based classes. Over the past five years, however, she’s “calmed down,” as she puts it, and now enjoys more lower-impact formats. Long before becoming a fitness teacher, she was a marathoner and ultra-marathoner, having completed many races (something she’s rightly proud of!). In their spare time, Lindsay and her husband enjoy the outdoors, walking/hiking, boating, BBQ-ing and exploring new places, whether by foot, car or bicycle.

For the past three decades, wellness, strength, vitality and movement have all played an integral part in Lisa’s life—and Pilates has always been her “go-to” for feeling her best. She first discovered the practice after having a herniated disc which required a discectomy. On her post-surgery path to full recovery, it was Pilates that ultimately brought her back to her strongest self. She received her certification through Peak Pilates in 2012 and is also certified in Core Barre. As a Pilates instructor, Lisa strives to help her students become more aware of their bodies and learn proper engagement, with an emphasis on responsible movement as a means of improving both physical and mental strength. When we are strong physically and mentally, Lisa teaches, we find focus in our lives and can truly become our best selves.

Sophie was first introduced to Pilates by her mother, who was a Pilates instructor when she was growing up; as Sophie got older, her mom’s passion inspired her to pursue her own certification, and she’s loved every step of the journey! Sophie is passionate about helping others to reach their fitness goals, and is grateful to be able to help others feel comfortable and confident in their bodies. She truly believes in the power of Pilates and its impact on both mental and physical well-being. As an instructor, her goal is to keep learning and growing as she works to create a safe, welcoming, and fun environment for her clients. Since becoming a teacher, she’s met and been inspired by so many incredible people who have inspired her in unique ways, and it is their dedication, energy, and progress that motivate her to be the best instructor she can be. In her teaching, Sophie loves bringing a challenge while keeping the vibe light and up-lifting. In her free time, she loves being in nature, chatting with her favorite people, listening to music, reading a good book, and telling herself she doesn’t need to go to the Humane Society every weekend, because she knows she’ll only get attached! In all facets of her life, Sophie loves trying out new things and going on adventures, and she brings that same spirit of exploration and fun into her classes.

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