Company:Alternative Fitness
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Offers private and shared sessions, and mat and reformer classes. Includes instructors' profiles, class descriptions, a schedule, FAQs, testimonials, a map and directions to the studio.
' Melissa PopeOwner and founder of Alternative Fitness in 1995 Melissa first became aware of Pilates at the Spoleto Festival in the late 1980s. She was quite impressed with the ability and bodies of the dancers in a particular dance company, and went on to read in all their biographies that they practiced Pilates. Melissa, a Charlotte native, became fully certified to teach mat and equipment classes in 1994; she opened Alternative Fitness in 1995. She rounds out the optimal instructors repertoire with a bachelors degree in dance education and psychology, along with experience teaching anatomy/kinesiology at UNC-Charlotte, and dance at Queens College, UNC-C and Winthrop College. A former dancer with a back injury, Melissa found Pilates provided the relief and rehabilitation she needed when nothing else short of surgery worked. Her mission became to pass on the healing benefits to others. Thus, Pope became fully certified, with the '-Alternative Fitness
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