Maria Kelly has been in the Fitness industry for almost 25 years. Prior to her career in fitness, she danced professionally with the Houston Ballet. She was introduced to Pilates at the age of 8 and has had a passion for it ever since. She was later certified in the Pilates Method in 1992 and became a member of AFAA. She was one of the first personal trainers to introduce Pilates to the Houstonian Club. Maria also teaches a variety of classes in the group exercise department including Pilates, Core Motion, and toning with weights and has developed specialty classes for the club such as Pilates on the Corepole and a dance-based class called Sensuale. She varies her classes to make them interesting and takes pride in helping people achieve their goals. Maria is certified in all of the apparatus in Studio 360 (Power Plate, TRX training, Kinesis) and trains members weekly.