Ariel Lehaitre Pilates Instructor
Physical Therapist & Dancer
Ariel’s extensive dance background includes fifteen years of professional ballet training at the San Francisco Ballet School, The Pacific Northwest Ballet and New York’s School of American Ballet. Since 2006, she has been a professional salsa dancer, dancing with the World Champion team Pretty Boys and Girls. She has taught and performed throughout the United States and at international venues such as Mexico, Spain, Italy, Singapore and Malaysia.
With over 20 years of dance training in multiple dance forms, Ariel brings unique qualifications to her pilates instruction. Ariel struggled with injury throughout her dance career, and thus pilates became instrumental in her rehabilitation and conditioning. She has been practicing pilates for 15 years, and incorporating it in her physical therapy practice for 9 years. Ariel is passionate about helping dancers maintain a healthy, injury-free state, and achieve their highest dancing potential.
Ariel received her M.S. in Physical Therapy and B.S. in Clinical Exercise Physiology from Boston University with honors. Her professional Pilates training includes 5 years at the Anderson and Kasakove Pilates Studio in New York and Dance Medicine at St. Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. She received a Rehabilitation Pilates Professional Certification from Polestar Pilates in 2005.
