Heidi Benson has been an American Council on Exercise (ACE) and Lifestyle Fitness Coach for over 20 years. She has taught a variety of fitness classes across the country and developed a successful fitness consulting business on the East Coast. Opening Priya Pilates & Fitness is the culmination of her dreams.

Heidi is certified for Pilates through Balanced Body University and has completed all of the certifications and has also been trained under the tutelage of Katrina Foe of Personalized Fitness in Phoenix. She has also trained extensively with Shawn and Hayley Healey, educators for both Balanced Body and Polestar Pilates who have developed a foundational and functional model utilizing the Reformer. Heidi is available for personal training on the Reformer, Exo-Chair, Tower and Mat Work. She also teaches group fitness classes in pilates, kickboxing, step, strength training and flexibility. Embark on a journey designed to empower you through self-reliance, personal responsibility and physical challenges.

Private Training Rates:

• Reformer or Exo-Chair w/Heidi: $50/hr
• Reformer or Exo-Chair w/Heidi: 10 sessions $450
• Duet Reformer: $70/hr ($35/hr each)
• Duet Reformer: 10 sessions $630

Group Pilates Classes:

• Single Class Rate: $20
• 10 class card: $180

Achmed has been dedicated to professional theatrical dance and fitness instruction since graduating High School. He is a European licensed Physical Therapist and holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Dance with an emphasis in Choreography and Video Composition from the University of California at Irvine. There, he completed graduate level Pilates course. As a company member of the Sacramento Ballet, recovering from knee surgery, he started his intensive Pilates Training in 1986 under Patricia Whitehead at the at that time only Dance Medicine Clinic in the U.S: the St. Francis Hospital in San Francisco.

While a full-time UNLV Dance faculty member, he continued his Pilates training at the Las Vegas Sports and Dance Medicine Clinic for two years under Dolly Ridderplaat. While serving as the Ballet Master of the Los Angeles Modern Dance & Ballet Company, he trained at the original Pilates Studio of Los Angeles/Performing Arts Physical Therapy in West Hollywood under Master Teacher, Melinda Bryan, PT three times a week. Over the last 24 years, Achmed has attained the level of being a master teacher himself in theatrical dance, general fitness and in personalized innovative Pilates techniques to increase overall strength, flexibility, coordination, and endurance for individualized rehabilitation and overall physical conditioning.

Private Training Rates:

• Reformer or Exo-Chair w/Achmed: $60/hr
• Reformer or Exo-Chair w/Achmed: 10 sessions $550
• Duet Reformer: $75/hr ($37.50/hr each)
• Duet Reformer: 10 sessions $700

Group Pilates Classes:

• Single Class Rate: $20
• 10 class card: $180