About

Kerri began dancing very early, though her formal training began at eight years old in the Charleston Ballet Theatre School. She graduated high school from North Carolina School of the Arts with an emphasis in ballet performance in 1993. She then began her professional dance career with the Charleston Ballet Theatre, performing with the Company for four seasons. This afforded her the opportunity to dance in many of the Classics as well as contemporary works. In 2003, she completed Romana’s Pilates Teacher Certification Program in NY, where she apprenticed with Joseph Pilates’ protege, Romana Kryzanowska. Since that time, Kerri has been an instructor at Pure Joe Studios in Washington, DC and Reston, VA; and, more recently a guest teacher on the island of Bermuda, at Bermuda Bodyworks. Currently Kerri is a Level IV Instructor Trainer at Pilates in Paradise in Key Largo, Florida.

She took her first Nia class at a hospital in Charleston during a long health struggle. It was, by far, her best experience in that hospital! Years later, and thankfully much stronger, she trained for her White Belt with Denise Medved. It was that Nia experience that profoundly changed her perspective and life. Nia has been teaching her to heal herself in many ways, everyday, ever since. A beautiful compliment to her work as a Pilates instructor, Nia is a natural progression in her life of movement. In November of 2008, she had an amazing Green Belt experience in Montreat, NC with Carlos Rosas. She feels that her apprenticeship of Nia has just begun and that being a student of the greater work, both in Life, and in Nia, is a Joy!

She is happy to be living in Key Largo, teaching and sharing the Joy of Movement through Nia & Pilates! Kerri will always be a student and is grateful to be a teacher.