Pilates
Pilates
FBH Wellness is a boutique style studio offering private and semi-private sessions, as well as reformer, tower, and small mat group classes.
It is our goal at FBH Wellness to teach Joseph Pilates’ system of exercise as it was taught to us by Romana's Pilates.
FBH Wellness is passionate about teaching the system that Joseph Pilates left as his legacy.
The studio equipment designed by Gratz and Tirado holds true to the high standards that were established many years ago.
The Pilates Method is a form of exercise that emphasizes the balanced development of the body through core strength, flexibility, and awareness to support efficient, graceful movement.
Pilates is the Art of contrology, it emphasizes proper postural alignment, core strength and muscle balance.
Joseph Pilates, who developed the exercises in the 1920s focused on quality instead of quantity.
Principles of Pilates
- Centering
- Concentration
- Control
- Precision
- Flow
- Breath
Pilates Instructors
Donna Fisher
Owner / Yoga & Pilates Instructor
Donna Fisher, owner of FBH Wellness, has been teaching and training in the health and fitness field since 1990.
Donna motivates and inspires her family, friends and clients to be consistent in pursuing wellness. She taught around the world for ten years until she started a family, which is now her highest priority.
In addition, Donna worked in Occupational Therapy, specializing in pediatrics for five years before committing herself full time to fitness!
She has a BS in Exercise Physiology from the University of Florida and is certified in several different certifications including Romana’s Pilates, ACE, AFAA, and biomechanics from the Cooper Center, where she was the Private Pilates Director for ten years.
A life long athlete she is inspired to continue growing in her experiences, in her professional career and in her personal ambitions.
Gabrielle Savarese
Pilates Instructor
I am a classically trained Pilates Instructor, teaching over 12,000 hours of private, duet, group equipment and mat classes during my 15 years of experience. I’ve taught in Chicago, the D.C area and now here in Dallas. I was a Pilates’ enthusiast for 5 years in my hometown of Sydney, Australia. When I relocated to Chicago, I was inspired to complete the “Articulate Eye” 650+ hours, Classical Teacher Training Program.
In 2016, I graduated from a 3-year Master’s Program from the prestigious Pilates Centre in Boulder Colorado. The Centre is run by the world-renowned Taylor Sisters. Amy and Rachel Taylor in unison with Romana; Joseph Pilates’ protégé, founded their training program in 1991.The Master’s Program is an individually tailored program, 116 hours of instruction and Internship for experienced Pilates Instructors. It’s designed to challenge those with a desire to delve profoundly deeper into the nuances of the method, to advance their knowledge and further evolve their teaching, to benefit everybody.
I am also Pink Ribbon Program Certified, which enables me to guide Breast Cancer patients through post-surgery rehabilitative exercises.
In addition to my formal certifications, I stay current and refine my teaching through continuing education. I have attended numerous workshops with distinguished and Master instructors and have been privileged to learn directly from first generation teachers, Kathy Grant, Ron Fletcher, Lolita San Miguel, Mary Bowen, all of whom were taught by Joe Pilates himself.
I find teaching Pilates an extremely rewarding experience, guiding clients to become more body aware, as they begin to move not from habit, but with mindfulness. I am thrilled to help clients discover a truer strength and freedom of movement within their own bodies as they journey toward their limitless vitality and optimum health. I encourage everyone to come as you are but to leave at your best!
Pilates... Live, Move, Perform at your best!
Teresa Hendrickson
Pilates Instructor
Teresa was born and raised in Alaska and has been an athlete all her life. She has a love for movement and balance and enjoys challenging herself physically and mentally by competing in triathlons, various team sports and even rode the velodrome.
A knee injury brought her to Pilates where she found new passion and in 2003 she began an apprenticeship in Seattle. She was comprehensively trained in Stott Pilates, later she certified with Michael Miller Pilates and Pilates Unlimited.
Teaching began a life long love of learning the classical Pilates method with world renowned instructors. Currently she's participating in the Romana Pilates certification program to further her training and education in the method.
Teresa's love of movement has led her to certifications in pre/post natal fitness, indoor cycling, TRX suspension training and steel mace.
Since 2004 Teresa has taught all over the metroplex, including Cooper fitness center, Equinox, Texas Instruments, Dallas Ballet Center and has been a guest instructor in Costa Rica.
Pilates has helped Teresa recover from injuries and illnesses including a total knee replacement and most recently triple negative breast cancer.
Teresa believes Pilates can benefit everyone regardless of age or ability, from the professional athlete to those wanting to maximize their health and wellbeing.
Viviana Lubertino
Pilates Instructor
Viviana is a graduate professional ballet dancer from the renowned Superior Institute of Art of the Teatro Colon in Buenos Aires. She has been a principal ballerina with the Ballet del Teatro Municipal of Santiago Chile, and a member of corps of ballet in Buenos Aires and Dallas, dancing many leading rolls.
To expand her horizons and pursue new methods to balancing and share her passion for conditioning and enhancing the body Viviana has studied and achieved certification implementing into her instruction repertoire, philosophies such as Pilates, Biomechanics, Yoga, And Personal Training!
Bringing you the best of both world Viviana is bilingual in Spanish and can converse in Italian! She enjoys seeing clients feel and move better with each session.
Allie Stilwell
MAT Specialist
Allie Stilwell has been in the health and fitness field for over 20 years. After graduating from the George Washington University with a B.S. in Exercise Science and Public Health, she continued at George Washington and earned a Masters Degree in Exercise Physiology. Allie spent the early part of her career working as a personal trainer, Fitness Director and eventually General Manger at several large fitness facilities.
Allie found her way to Pilates and completed her comprehensive training with Balanced Body and Karen Sanzo. Allie has been teaching since 2013, a constant student of the method and gravitating towards a more classical teaching style, she integrates much of her bio-mechanic/physiology background into her teaching style.
A self-proclaimed “anatomy nerd”, Allie found herself back in class again to complete her Muscle Activation Technique Specialist Training in 2018. Allie’s teaching style is unique as her varied experiences thread their way through her Pilates instruction. A constant student of the human body and its biomechanics; her expertise, unique eye, attention to detail has been honed over decades of learning.
Allie Stilwell's practice of MAT® is unique in what other factors she uses to understand the client, what outside factors (biomechanics, nutrition, hydration, movement patterns, underlying health factors) are impacting her client's ability to move well and without pain.
Charlie McGilvary
Yoga Instructor/Pilates
Please also add her on this page: Charlie discovered yoga in 2002 while studying at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She spent 14 years building her practice and studying the healing powers of yoga. In 2016, Charlie received her RYT200 hour yoga teacher certification and began sharing her love of yoga by helping others find their balance, strength and flexibility both on and off the mat. Her studies in yoga also lead her to the study of Ayurveda, the sister science of yoga. In December of 2022, she will receive her Ayurvedic Wellness Counselor certification. Charlie teaches both vinyasa style classes, as well as, restorative and Ayurvedic yoga therapy sessions.
Charlie came to Pilates in January 2022 in support of her mother, who was battling stage four cancer. Charlie's mother used Pilates to strengthen and prepare her body for surgery related to her cancer battle with great success. After seeing the strength Pilates gave her mother, she knew she needed to learn more. Charlie is currently a Pilates Apprentice.
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