GREGORY LOUIS

Master Trainer, Vibe Pilates Mat Teacher Training Program

Gregory first came to the Pilates 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 something this powerful needed to be shared with others, it wasn’t long before he decided to become a teacher.  Gregory was classically certified in 2013 through the Equinox Pilates Teacher Training Institute, and in the thirteen years since has worked with teacher-mentors from several ideologies across the larger Pilates spectrum.  Moving back east in 2018, Gregory brought his practice 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.  A native of Buffalo, NY, Gregory now resides in Tega Cay, SC, and is deeply grateful to share his passion for the practice as Master Trainer at Vibe Pilates.