Melinda found her passion for fitness and dance at a very young age. From ballet classes at age 2 to advanced jazz classes in college, she has always incorporated both into her everyday life. Melinda graduated from the University of Arizona with a Marketing degree in 2001. Shortly after graduating, she decided to move back home to Houston to pursue a business career. In her spare time, she began teaching various aerobics classes but had to stop teaching due to chronic hip pain and tendonitis in her ankles. She then started training and learning about the Peak Pilates System and its rehabilitative abilities for both the body and mind. Throughout her own pregnancies, she used Pilates to help maintain strength in vital muscles, as well as to strengthen the deep abdominal walls and improve posture postpartum. While helping to cure her own ailments, Melinda has devoted the past 20 years to helping her clients and friends realize their strength and power, making them physically and mentally healthier in their everyday lives. Melinda is Comprehensively Certified through the Peak Pilates System and in the Gyrotonic® Method.