Maria Guse

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Maria Guse discovered Pilates and its many amazing benefits in 2002, one year after her first child was born. After just a few months of weekly private lessons with her incredible teacher and eventual mentor, Marta Cuervo-Ostro, she was blown away by the positive changes in her body. . She realized Joseph Pilates’ famous saying “In 10 sessions you’ll feel the difference, in 20 sessions you’ll see the difference, and in 30 sessions you’ll have a whole new body” to be more than accurate. She was hooked! She received her certification in 2005 from Romana’s Pilates in New York, training directly with Joseph Pilates’ protégé and first generation master teacher Romana Kryzanowska. The rigorous certification program required 600 hours of apprenticeship, seminars, lessons and three levels of written and practical tests. She began teaching group mat classes at yoga studios and community centers and then opened her own studio, Positively Pilates LLC in Fairfield, CT in 2005. In 2011, after having her third child, she made the difficult decision to leave that studio behind and moved to Brentwood, TN so that her husband would no longer have to travel for business. Positively Pilates has found a new home in the Nashville area and Maria is happy to bring authentic Pilates to the south. Teaching private lessons in her fully equipped studio as well as group mat classes enables Maria to share her passion for the Pilates method, along with her compassion for others struggling to feel better in their bodies. Strongly influenced by over 12 years of practicing yoga, Maria’s teaching leaves her students feeling not only stronger and more balanced, but also more peaceful and centered. She approaches every lesson as a unique experience, catering to what each individual or group needs in their body, as well as for their mind and spirit on that particular day. There is no greater satisfaction for her than hearing after an hour’s lesson, “I feel 100% better than when I first walked in the door.”

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Maria Guse