Heide
Heide is a Florida native, who at the age of 19, began her professional career in the field of athletics and wellness as a certified personal trainer. She went on to receive her Master of Science in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine at Dragon Rises College of Oriental Medicine in Gainesville, FL. She worked in an integrated wellness center, creating therapeutic exercise programs for clients with specific muscular imbalances. She then found a position at the local hospital as an exercise physiologist in their clinical wellness center; she worked closely with the cardiac and pulmonary rehab departments to design and implement a functional strength component for their programs. Heide has also worked as the exercise expert in the Diabetes Care Center and Created a Childhood Weight Management Program for local schools.
Heide also developed her own part-time acupuncture practice. Most patients were direct referrals from the wellness center and Heide’s Medical Exercise/Sports Medicine experience grew extensively.
In 2012, she experienced an episode of extreme back pain that turned out to be the result of an intervertebral disc rupture due to a hereditary condition of degenerative discs and scoliosis. This brought Heide to Pilates. She had the honor of developing a personal pilates practice in the knowledgeable hands of Certified Romana’s Pilates Instructors. As Heide began to see and feel the difference that Pilates was making in her life, she decided to become an instructor and share the joy with others! After a personal mentorship with her own Romana’s Instructors and completion of the Power Pilates Comprehensive Training Program, Heide took her certificate and all of her experience to Colorado. She still practices acupuncture privately on a home visit basis.
When Heide is not working or doing pilates, she enjoys meditation, yoga, weightlifting, being outdoors, riding horses, snowboarding, cooking, visiting with her friends, and loving her dog!
