I started fitness instruction "back in the day", oh, about 20 plus years ago, leading the way in the '80s with aerobic classes. In between my thong-leotard days until now, many experiences led me to create an amazing and energizing fitness studio Energy Pilates Fitness Yoga in Woodbury, Minnesota.

I opened the doors to Energy in March 2008. With a fast-growing membership, we were voted "BEST OF" by Woodbury Magazine, 2009. The following year, Energy Pilates & Fitness was again voted "BEST PLACE TO WORK OUT" and "BEST FITNESS CLASS - PUSH, and I was voted as "BEST PERSONAL TRAINER." Best of 2014 was awarded to Energy for "BEST YOGA CLASS" and runner-up for "BEST FITNESS STUDIO."

So what drives me to constantly work on creating a fitness studio which embraces super FUN, cutting-edge classes & a crazy variety of exercise classes ... easy peasy ... there is nothing more motivating to me than to LAUGH with others, UPLIFT others, and along the way ... something happens ... we get fit and stay fit.

20 years plus of experience speaks for itself, right? I love helping and motivating people and now there are other instructors who feel the same way. With all that experience comes stuff I learned; I didn't like working with women if the fitness industry who may feel competitive ...women should always support other women. Yep, it's out there, but not here. Cliche.. I know..but it's first about YOU and then the rewards we reap have an intrinsic value: it just feels good to do good when we take the "me" out of the equation.

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." Maya Angelou