Monica Matherly

Monica is a lifelong fitness devotee. From cheerleading and track and field in middle and high school, she expanded her fitness routine in college, where she pursued running, tennis, gymnastics, and aerobics. She remained dedicated to fitness through two pregnancies, which helped her thrive pre-natal and post-partum. She found group mat Pilates classes as a therapeutic response to low back pain over 20 years ago and discovered classical private Pilates instruction over a decade ago. Amazed at how just five sessions resulted in meaningful improvement, she got hooked. Inspired by her classically trained instructors in Richmond, VA; Detroit, MI; and NYC, she immediately enrolled in a classical Pilates teacher training program after a 33-year successful career as an executive in financial services. She is a third generation instructor, trained by Alycea Ungaro at Real Pilates in NYC, who, for over a decade, studied under Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates’ hand-picked protégé. She is thrilled to be giving to others what her instructors gave to her, which is a love of living life free of pain and the ability to do the things she loves to do in life with confidence and energy. She is a proud mother of two adult daughters, and is a recent transplant from NYC. She resides in Raleigh with her husband of 35 years, and is loving the Raleigh area!