Tara Ritchie

Tara Ritchie lives in Denver, Colorado, and enjoys the Venezuelan cooking of her husband and the delight of their two-year-old while they salsa dance together. She is a Certified Pilates Instructor and Licensed Avatar ® Master. Since 2006 Tara has been delivering the Avatar® Course, which is a three-section self-empowerment training guided by a worldwide network of licensed avatar masters. It is a series of experiential exercises that enable you to rediscover yourself and align your consciousness with what you want to achieve. She used these belief management tools to integrate much of her childhood experiences and learn to live deliberately. It was especially helpful in 2017 when she built her dream Pilates studio. She grew up skiing, hiking and going to the gym with her parents in Boulder, Colorado and Taos, New Mexico.  As a result, she developed a passion and knowledge for the fitness industry that continues to motivate her to instill a healthier and active lifestyle in everyone she meets.  She started doing Pilates after years of dance training to change her posture and to prevent the lordosis (swayback) and Dowager's hump of her grandmother and aunts. Now she has a daily Pilates and weight training routine that keeps her feeling as good as she did when she was dancing. She believes that Pilates is the best way to achieve grace in your body without having to endure the years of dance choreography classes and performances that she did. It creates the perfect balance between strength and flexibility.