Club Pilates

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• Danielle Mathews

  Lead Instructor

  Danielle Mathews is our Lead Instructor of Club Pilates West Little Rock. She is originally from Northern Virginia, and graduated Cum Laude from Point Park University with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. During her ten year professional dance career, Danielle danced for world renowned choreographers and toured nationally and internationally with Thodos Dance Chicago, Chicago Repertory Ballet, and LEVELdance. After retiring from the stage in 2016, Danielle moved to Little Rock with her husband, an Arkansas native. Danielle has been teaching pilates, yoga and other exercise classes since 2011 and is certified in the Pilates Method (Power Pilates), Power Yoga (Yoga Alliance), PBT (Progressing Ballet Technique) and Piyo. She enjoys enriching lives through exercise and wellness, and believes that Pilates can have a profound impact not just on one’s body, but on their life. In addition to her Club Pilates responsibilities, Danielle teaches classes through the Little Rock Athletic Clubs and at Rock City Dance Center where she shares her knowledge and passion of dance. Outside of teaching, Danielle enjoys the outdoors and, most importantly, being Mama to her son, Walter. Danielle is proud to be a part of the Club Pilates WLR team and its wonderful community.

• Victoria High

  Instructor

  Victoria High has been teaching both classical and non-classical Pilates for almost two decades. She apprenticed with Marci Clark, founder and owner of Powerhouse Pilates, during her first five years of instructing. She continued her education by training with Peak Pilates and specializing in the chair with Zoey Trap, Stott Barre and Booty Barre. Her extensive background in teaching fitness goes beyond both Mat and Equipment Pilates and includes stretch, yoga, water aerobics, and specialty classes for cancer patients too. What excited Victoria Most about Club Pilates is how it effectively takes Joseph Pilates’ principles and translates them into attainable goals and whole body fitness strategies for everyone. She also loves that teaching at Club Pilates allows her to be creative and fun while programming functional movement routines to strengthen and help create a greater awareness of the mind-body connection. She strongly believes in the holistic approach of Pilates, as it has personally allowed her to see many of her clients graduate from dependency on canes or other walking assisted devices to living normal lives. Her work in the fitness world since the age of 19 has trained her physical eye. Her years as a psychotherapist, a wife and mother to two daughters has trained her mind’s eye. With her tender voice and eye for detail she has often been called the instructor with the velvet hammer.

• Brooke Alexander

  Instructor

  Brooke Alexander is a lifelong learner and wellness enthusiast. Originally from Louisiana she spent her teenage years active in competitive gymnastics and cheerleading. She cheered professionally throughout college, travelling and teaching camps across the southeast. She graduated from the University of Arkansas with a BS in recreational therapy. She was first introduced to mind-body work through yoga and says it changed her life. She taught Yoga for years and through that teaching was introduced to Pilates and was hooked. She believes Joseph Pilates left the greatest blueprint to condition our bodies. It is her passion to spread and the word and teach others how to bring deep awareness to their bodies. She went through the 500 hour Club Pilates Comprehensive Teacher Training to be able to spread that love of Pilates in Little Rock. She lives her life by this Joseph Pilates quote – “There is Joy in movement, and movement heals.” Brooke is the mother of two boys that keep her on the go, and her Pilates training helps her keep up.

• Leah Morris

  Instructor

  Leah Morris is a Professional Ballet Dancer and Pilates lover! She grew up in Northern Virginia and moved to Little Rock recently to join Ballet Arkansas. She is comprehensively trained through Balanced Body Pilates. Leah started Pilates from being a dancer, she found it to be the perfect supplement to keeping her body strong and long. After time she started seeing how Pilates was beneficial to everyone and knew she wanted to learn more and teach. She is very excited to share her love of Pilates with the Little Rock community!