Our Instructors
tru Pilates owner Robin Truxel has brought together a dedicated, well trained team of instructors who are truly passionate about the benefits of Pilates. Each instructor has discovered Pilates in their own unique way, and brings to their teaching a richly diverse background of professional and personal experience.
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• Kit Laughlin (visiting instructor)
Robin Truxel
Owner and Certified PHI Pilates instructor Robin Truxel holds a BS in Clinical Science and a MS in Physical Therapy from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. She is fully certified through the Pilates Method Alliance (PMA). She is also a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the NSCA and has considerable professional experience working with a range of individuals from professional athletes to pre-natal women to mature clients with osteoporosis. She has continued to study with Pilates elders such as Lolita San Miguel and Mary Bowen as well as second generation teachers Michele Larrson and Rebecca Leone. Most recently she completed a six day Stretch Teacher workshop with Kit Laughlin, which has helped her own running tremendously as well as her clients and those with chronic pain and muscular tension. Her journey with Pilates began as a way to rehabilitate a back and hip injury while training for road marathons and she continued to study the movement for the streamlined effect it had on her body. Robin has successfully completed 12 marathons (including Boston, New York and Death Valley) and reversed her scoliosis with help from Pilates and stretching and flexibility techniques. Robin recently completed a 12 hour comprehensive Monkey gym workshop with Kit Laughlin.
