Each member of the Core Pilates & Yoga team has completed 100’s of hours of instruction and apprenticeship. As Pilates instructors, we have traveled to New York City for continuing education in both Pilates principles & updated methods.
We are dedicated to working closely with doctors in the treatment and care of their clients. We provide detailed feedback and look for an active relationship.
Our Pilates instructors develop a deep understanding of pilates, it’s movements and recognition of client weaknesses. We help our clients identify their postural habits and improve them with increased awareness, particular movements and sensory reeducation.
Our Yoga instructors have varried backgrounds which brings a wonderful variety of focus and strength to the mat.
Core Pilates & Yoga welcomes people of all ages & fitness levels as we focus on improving the body’s movement patterns and thus creating healthier lives. On behalf of Core Pilates & Yoga and its staff, we look forward to training with you.
Kim McDonough
Kim has been active in the fitness industry since 1984. She toured the mid-west with Powder Blue Productions providing instructor certifications in Turbo Kick and PiYo. She was introduced to Pilates and Yoga during recovery from a complete rotator cuff repair. When Kim decided she wanted to pursue a deeper study of Pilates, she chose to travel to Manhattan, New York to do so. The IM=X training method fit well with her group fitness back ground. After completing her apprentice hours, Kim decided to open Core Pilates as a loft studio in Rockford MI . That space was quickly out grown and the studio moved to its current location.
Kim is a certified IM=X Trainer is the following programs: Basic Mat & Xerciser, Advanced Xerciser, Spinal Rehabilitation, the Pink Ribbon Program & has training on the Exo Chair through Balanced Body. New clients, whether fitness or rehabilitation based will benefit from her expertise. Kims is married with 3 children.
Coleen Bronkema
Coleen is a teacher at heart. She has both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Education and taught high school until the birth of her 3rd. child. When Kim was completing her apprentice hours for IM=X training, Coleen was introduced to IM=X Pilates. Coleen was sold on the method and headed off to Manhattan, New York to study. She is certified in IM=X Basic Mat & Xerciser, Super Advanced Mat & Xerciser & Spinal Rehabilitation. Coleen is married with 4 children.
Terri Torres
Terri was one of the first females to graduate from the US Air Force Academy. She served as a Captain for 8 years of active duty and then 4 years in the Air Force Reserves. She grew up in the gym and competed as a collegiate gymnast while attending the Air Force Academy. Terri was also introduced to Pilates during Kim's apprentice hours and realized she found an exercise discipline that would help her deal with her degenerating vertebral disks which resulted from years of gymnastics. Terri took her training to New York where she received her IM=X Basic Mat and Xerciser certification. She has 3 children, a dog, and a cat.
Kim Brown
Kim Brown became a Yoga Alliance Registered Yoga Teacher in 2006 after practicing yoga since 1999. Her style is primarily Vinyasa and Power Yoga with strong emphasis on body awareness, alignment and breathing techniques to maintain a steady state of calm throughout an asana practice. She is influenced by and grateful to many teachers including T.K.V. Desikachar, B.K.S. Iyengar, Bryan Kest, Baron Baptiste, Beryl Bender Birch and many others who have shared their gift of yoga. Kim has also been a certified TurboKick instructor for the last ten years.
Andre Daley
Andre Daley has been practicing yoga for over five years. Initially Andre did yoga looking to find relief from chronic lower back pain (caused by scoliosis), he discovered that practicing yoga relieved his back pain. Andre also experienced unanticipated benefits, including weight loss greater physical fitness, focus, and a centered mind and spirit.. Andre teaches yoga in the hope that others will find a similar mind, body and spirit connection. Andre has completed Yoga Fit Level 1 YogaFit Kids training. He is a Registered Yoga Teacher – 200 hour level (RYT 200) with Yoga Alliance and certified Holy Yoga instructor (HYI). He has also taken yoga workshops with master Iyengar yoga teacher Mary Reilly, Ashtanga teacher Dave Swenson; Therapeutic Yoga with Lyn Medows and Bryan Kest.
Sharon Schmuker
Sharon has been practicing yoga for over ten years and teaching the discpline for two.She has completed her 200 hours of training through Chicago-based Prairie Yoga. Sharon looks forward to introducing new people to the practice of yoga. She has three great kids and a wonderful husband. Intheir spare time they like to go camping and enjoy the great outdoors.