Hilary Gibson

Lead Instructor / Managing Instructor

Education

Romana Kryzanowska 3rd Generation Comprehensively trained Classical Instructor. Alycea Ungaro’s Real Pilates Certification Program entails 600 + hours of training and apprenticeship in 2019

Balance Body Instructor Training of modules Reformer 1 & 2 and Mat completed in 2014 

Continuing Education and training experiences under various 2nd generation teachers: Blossom Leilani Crawford, Chris Robinson, Alycea Ungaro

Mentored by Jane Weiner, Lydia Hance, Ashley Horn-Nott, Elizabeth Schlitzberger, Roxanne Claire and Sara Carbo in various creative movement, mindful arts education and toddler dance classes 

Graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Arts; Major in Dance from the University of Alabama in 2014 along with a minor in Human Development and Family Studies

Movement

Professional Dancer with Frame Dance (Apprentice) and contract works with Hope Stone Dance, Noble Motion Dance 2014-2017

Ballet, tap & jazz from the age of 5 in New Orleans with a concentration of Modern Dance in college 

Choreographed concert works performed in various college shows

Various dance intensives, including International Ballet Competition, and pre-professional performances with Ballet Hysell. Head Counselor for the American Ballet Theatre intensive in Tuscaloosa, AL  

Why Pilates

Pilates fuels my personal passion for movement because it brings together a mental and physical discipline that I grew up molding within myself through dance. I love the movement vocabulary and syllabus Joseph Pilates created that is both highly regimented and constantly creative. Classical Pilates speaks to me the most because of the focus and care the work emphasizes not only between the client and themselves, but also between the instructor and the client. Creating workouts that both serve and challenge my clients daily is what keeps my passion for creating movement alive.

Life’s Work, How do you want to be remembered . . .

I am so passionate about sharing movement with others, whether it be Pilates or dance or even walking. I strive to bring joy, love and support to every student, client and person in my life and receive all those things in return from my teaching experiences. I love getting curious and knowing “why” for everything- people’s life stories, the point of doing an exercise, if something is hard, if something is easy- and then digging in to find the “work” inside of that “why”. One of my personal core values is “continuous improvement” because I truly fear complacency. If I can empower one person-no matter how old- to find a stronger, happier version of themselves, then I’ll do everything I can to share my knowledge with them so they can continue in that journey.