Meet Us
Heidi Harrison:
Certified Pilates Instructor
Heidi
Harrison is a certified Pilates Instructor through Body
Arts and Science (Rael Isacowitz’s method). She
has been with The Studio since March of 2004. She works part
time, and sees clients 4 days a week. She is also a
licensed and certified massage therapist so, when not at the
Cypress Center she’s busy with her massage clients.
She works independently specializing in deep tissue and Swedish.
Heidi was raised in a fitness-oriented family in Ontario Canada. Her father, John Hatashita, owned a fitness center and Judo club, and trained three of Canada’s Olympic athletes, including her brother Roman. Heidi trained extensively in ballet, along with numerous other style of dance.
Heidi’s introduction to Pilates was in Toronto. She had quit dance and needed to maintain her strength and figure for her 20-year career as an actor and model. She also commends Pilates for the recovery of a back injury. When she moved to Santa Barbara, California in 1998, she took Pilates at the Santa Barbara Athletic Club working with instructors who taught mostly Ron Fletcher’s Method and Body Arts and Science (BASI) method of Pilates.
Heidi is available by appointment. |