Club Pilates

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  Blair Bodie

  Blair Bodie has over 20 years experience working with the body. She came into Pilates through dance and fell in love with the potential for movement it produces. She taught in Southeast Asia, New York City, and San Francisco. She graduated from Sarah Lawrence College with an MFA in choreography and received her BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in dance. She teaches Vinyasa yoga, modern dance, and has trained in Feldenkrais. She draws from her vast movement vocabulary to teach everything from rehabilitative to athletic training styles of Pilates.

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  Jenn Conwell

  Pilates Instructor/CP Master Trainer

  Jenn is a Montana gal having grown up in the small towns of Red Lodge and Hamilton. After graduating from the University of Montana with a degree in education she taught school for three years in Wyoming and Texas. During this time, she began working on her Pilates certification and soon realized that this was her true passion and wanted to pursue it full time. While working at the Club Pilates in Bozeman as an instructor, Jenn challenged herself to become a Master Trainer. While maintaining her classes in Bozeman for the last couple years she has also conducted Pilates instructor trainings as a Master Trainer across the United States. To date, she has mentored and certified approximately 20 new Pilates instructors. Jenn loves her Bozeman members and wants nothing more than to help them grow their physical and mental health through Pilates.

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  Jennifer Leigh

  Pilates Instructor

  Jennifer is from Charlotte, North Carolina and was first introduced to mat-based Pilates as a complement to her classical ballet training to promote strength, flexibility, balance, and control. Several years later, she graduated from Virginia Tech with a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting and moved to Washington, D.C. to work as a forensic accountant. Seeking an artistic outlet, she became passionate about aerial dance and, once again, turned to Pilates to maintain the strength, flexibility, balance, and control required in her new endeavor. This time, however, she was introduced to the Reformer and was amazed by its functionality and versatility. After her second class, she was asked to become an instructor, and she jumped at the chance to become both a student and a teacher of Pilates. Jennifer earned her Reformer certification and taught Pilates Reformer classes in Washington, D.C. until moving to Bozeman in late 2016. She has instructed group classes and private lessons at Club Pilates since early 2017 and has since earned her certification in TRX Suspension Training. Jennifer loves helping people use the variety of Pilates equipment and tools to train their bodies and minds safely and effectively. She finds nothing more rewarding than observing as clients develop a greater degree of control over their bodies and refine their quality of movement.

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  Michele FitzGerald

  Pilates Instructor

  Michele was born in Bozeman, but grew up in Lewiston, MT. At the age of 12, she received a scholarship to the Marin Ballet Academy in San Rafael, CA. She took her first job with Ballet Oregon when she turned 16, dancing as an apprentice with the company for 2 years. Her ballet career included Wilkes Barre Ballet Theater, Baltimore City Ballet, Empire State Ballet and Buffalo City Ballet. She then attended the State University of New York Buffalo, graduating magna cum lauded from the school of physical therapy in 1997. Her specialties as a PT include neurological, orthopedic and geriatric conditions. She started Pilates as a student at Club Pilates Bozeman two years ago, in an attempt to heal her own sacroiliac issues, and she has been hooked ever since. She attended the teacher training program at Club Pilates Bozeman, with Jenn Conwell as her Master Trainer and Mentor last year, and has enjoyed sharing her love and knowledge of Pilates with both her PT clients and the clients of Club Pilates.

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  Kristin Koeplin

  Pilates Instructor Apprentice

  Kristin Koeplin began her Pilates journey about two years ago, as one of Club Pilates Bozeman's first members. After being a student and seeing and feeling the changes in her own body, and those of other students, she decided to enroll in the teacher training program at Club Pilates. She is currently an Apprenctice Instructor having completed all of her in-studio training and will complete her test in the very near future. She loves being a part of the inclusive encouraging environment Club Pilates Bozeman has created!!

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  Hailey Kassity

  Pilates Instructor

  Hailey Kassity began her Pilates Instructor training during her senior year of high school at Club Pilates Bozeman. She is now Comprehensively certified and has been teaching for almost a year and has found so many things to appreciate through Club Pilates, especially all of the great members. Growing up she played volleyball, basketball, tennis, and track and field, and has been deeply immersed in physical activity her whole life. She is currently attending Montana State University in pursuit of an Exercise Science Degree and plans on going into the field of Physical Therapy. She enjoys hiking Sacajawea Peak, traveling the world, and spending time on any Montana lake.

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  Bethany Beal

  Pilates Instructor

  Bethany is 21 years old, born and raised in Billings, MT. She attended Montana State University studying Kinesiology, and spent the last few years acquiring fitness certifications and internships. She began Pilates in high school to cross train for running. She ran cross country and participated in a lot of road races. She is certified as a group fitness instructor, barre instructor, personal trainer, yoga instructor, and most recently Comprehensively certified through Peak Pilates as a classically trained Pilates Instructor. She loves creating routines and putting movement patterns together, and is extremely passionate about the culture that the mind and body fitness modalities create. The energy is so accepting and positive, and she feels truly blessed to be a part of it. This is her dream career - Pilates changed her life. It makes her more confident, energized, refreshed and joyful. She loves sharing her passion and cultivating that confidence in others every single day!

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  Luann Rosengren

  Pilates Instructor

  Luann has owned her own salon for 10 years, and has always enjoyed seeing her guests leave with a new bounce in their step, and boost to their spirit. She began Pilates as a student about two years ago to help her own scoliosis. She quickly saw this same bounce and positive energy in the other members at Club Pilates! She began her Instructor training shortly after Club Pilates Bozeman opened, and has loved seeing how happy each person is when they see their personal progress! She loves being a part of the energy she and her co-workers create and share with the members! She and her husband have three grandchildren that bring continued joy to her life, as well as five children who all live in Bozeman!!

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  Joyce Jacobs

  Pilates Instructor

  Joyce was hooked on Pilates from the time she took her first intro class at Club Pilates Bozeman! She was 63 when she realized she was at the point where she was either going to get up and start moving her body or decline into the aging process. She chose to get herself busy so she would remain vital and useful. She saw an advertisement for Club Pilates and pushed herself to give it a try, and she is so grateful she did! She began with eight classes a month, but three weeks in wanted more and quickly upgraded to an unlimited membership! After just three months, she decided she wanted to become an instructor. After seven months of hard work, she received her certification, and is now a comprehensively certified Pilates Instructor! It won't happen this way for everyone, but she encourages every person of age along with the young and anyone in between to give it a try. You will change your life tremendously! She hopes to see you in the studio soon! Stop in and say Hello!!

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