Calista Marler
Certified Pilates Instructor
Calista Marler fell head-over-heels in love with Pilates (possibly literally!) in 2003 while attending a mat class with a friend. Realizing that Pilates was going to be more than a hobby, she started instructor training at Personal Best Pilates Studio in Overland Park, KS in 2006, and taught mat classes at several studios in Tulsa before completing full equipment certification in 2009. She has a passion for alignment, small muscle control, and the nuances of human anatomy, and her background in ballet allows her to build Pilates barre routines designed to improve strength, flexibility, and range of motion. She runs on coffee, stretching, and rampant imagination, and she loves to help her students achieve new levels of strength and balance that serve them both inside and outside the studio. Her favorite moments are when students tell her what new thing they can do that they couldn't do before Pilates.
When she's not in the studio, Calista lives on a small farm in Winchester, where she has a garden of useful plants and interesting weeds, a lot of ducks and chickens, too many dogs and cats, two kleptomaniac ferrets, and more kids than you can shake a stick at. She enjoys crafts, good books, and embarrassing her kids at every possible opportunity. Her collection of unicorn horn headbands is truly impressive, and if you see her outside the studio, she'll probably be wearing one.
