About Asheville Pilates

Asheville Pilates is home to professionals dedicated to improving your health and well being. Asheville Pilates is located at 188 Charlotte Street, Asheville, NC 28801. The studio shares premises with the Asheville Center for Health Excellence offering chiropractic, functional medicine and metabolic assessment, massage therapy, craniosacral therapy and reflexology. Read on to learn more about the dedicated professionals at Asheville Pilates:

• Studio owner, Maureen Sher
• Brooke Bergdahl
• Jennifer Bristol
• Maggie Everett

In 1996, Maureen moved to Denver, Colorado and was immediately exposed to Pilates and GYROTONIC® exercise methods. She is now a certified instructor of both movement systems and holds current membership in the Pilates Method Alliance. She offers individualized Gyrotonic and Pilates instruction, as well as reflexology by appointment.

Maureen has been a reflexology practitioner since 1990. This natural healing art, dating back to ancient Egypt, India and China, is based on the principle that congestion and tension in the foot is mirrored in the corresponding parts of the body. It is a complementary therapy that can be used to restore and maintain the equilibrium of the body, thereby healing the whole person and not just the symptoms.

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Brooke Bergdahl moved to Asheville from Ketchum, Idaho in 2006. Prior to her move, she worked 4 years teaching Pilates at a resort health and fitness facility in Ketchum. Brooke is a certified teacher of Authentic Pilates (TM). She trained with Master Teacher Dorothee VandeWalle at Metropolitan Pilates in Seattle, and has attended re-certification workshops with renowned first generation teacher Romana Krysanowska. An avid athlete herself, Brooke has also taught specialized mat classes for ski clubs, bicycle clinics, and teenage athletes, and has seen first hand how Pilates contributes to better and more efficient athletic performance. Brooke is currently studying Acupuncture and Chinese Herbology at Daoist Traditions College of Chinese Medicine in Asheville. She is also a dedicated girl’s basketball coach at Carolina Day School.

Jennifer Bristol fell in love with the pilates method in 1999 for its positive affects on her own body. Since completing her instructor certification in 2001, she has introduced individuals of all sizes, weights, ages, and physical abilities to the benefits of pilates. Her practice is complemented by continued education in the method itself as well as other healing modalities including reiki and qi gong.

Maggie Everett is receiving her Pilates training from Core Dynamics Pilates in Sante Fe, NM. She is a licensed Physical Therapist with Mountain Physical Therapy Services. As a manual therapist, Maggie has been studying and teaching efficient movement principles for the past 16 years. She brings this knowledge and experience to the teaching of Pilates with the goal of helping students re-educate their movement patterns to provide for healthier more efficient movement. In addition to practicing Pilates, Maggie is an endurance athlete enjoying adventure racing and ultra marathon trail running. She has experienced first hand how Pilates can enhance athletic performance.