Kim Butters
Instructor

Kim Butters is a fully certi­fied Pilates Instruc­tor through the Pilates Method Alliance. Before entering the fitness industry Kim taught Art at Jasper Middle School in Marion County for nine years. She became involved in fitness and ulti­mately Pilates because of constant neck and shoulder pain , contin­u­ing weight gain and high stress. She became an AFAA certi­fied Aerobics instruc­tor in 2000 and then an AFAA Personal Trainer in 2001 and begin working in fitness full time. She took her first Pilates class in Septem­ber of 2002 and was imme­di­ately fasci­nated with the concept of working internal muscles in an elon­gated state rather than only working external muscles in a short­ened contrac­tion. “I realized there was such a poten­tial to help people with muscular problems.”

Around the same time she began working part-time in a Physical Therapy clinic as a tech which further fueled her interest and aware­ness of the massive need for the Pilates type of training. Kim completed her compre­hen­sive program in 2005. She has worked to further her training by attend­ing Life Long Pilates with Mary Bowen(a first gener­a­tion teacher) and Funda­men­tals of Pilates at Body Aware­ness in Atlanta, Special Condi­tions with Wendy Leblanc-Arbuckle, and most recently Anatomy & Funda­men­tals of Pilates and Mapping the Body for Align­ment with Rebecca Leone. She currently teaches Intro to Pilates for Physical Educa­tion Credit at Chat­tanooga State and Univer­sity of the South. Though always active with hiking and biking, Kim has been consid­er­ably over­weight in the past and has to work very hard to stay in shape. This led her to create the only Full Figured Pilates classes in this area. “I want to inspire people who struggle with weight, age, or other physical limi­ta­tions that they can safely achieve a level of health and fitness that will revo­lu­tion­ize their everyday lives.”