Hayley
Pilates Instructor
My name is Hayley. I was born in the UK but have spent most of my life here in the US. I left South Florida back in 2010 and moved to North Carolina. I love the seasons here and everything it has to offer.
Over the years I have had many different careers from office jobs, to bartending to regional apartment manager, the list goes on and on. Through it all I have always been very into fitness, my mother was a professional bodybuilder, so it is what I grew up around, with saying that I have definitely had my own challenges with weight and all the other things a lot of us face with the ups and downs of life.
I’m not sure if I found Pilates or if it found me. About 5 years ago, I sat at a restaurant for lunch with some co-workers. It was an office job that I really didn’t care for and we all had to cram everything into our hour lunch break. I glanced over at another table and saw two ladies sitting leisurely in their yoga pants with their babies enjoying a relaxed lunch and conversation, one had a laptop with her. I’m not sure what they were doing but at that moment I turned to my friend and said “wow, that’s the dream right there, get paid to stay fit, wear yoga pants and have time with your little ones, one day I’ll have that.“
Fast forward a few years, life changed a lot but in real good ways. Club Pilates opened near me, so always wanting to try it, I joined immediately. Within a few months, I was so in love with it I knew that was what I wanted to do and enrolled in the Teacher Training program for certification. So, at age 41 I had finally found my dream job and a month into Teacher Training I also became pregnant.
I am now 43 and wearing Yoga pants with the job of my dreams, the best guy a girl could ask for, an awesome home life, and a gorgeous little boy that lights up my world. It’s never too late for anything!