Pivotal Pilates & Barre LLC is an Authentic Pilates and Barre Body® studio located in Mechanicsburg, PA. Owner Adrienne McCaskey (Pugh) teaches private sessions and small group classes in Pilates and Barre Body®, a ballet-inspired workout. As Co-Founder and Teacher Trainer for Barre Body®, Adrienne traveled the country to certify dance and fitness instructors in the method.
Adrienne is a classically trained dancer who graduated Magna Cum Laude from Muhlenberg College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Dance and Business Administration. Adrienne worked in Washington, DC in management and healthcare consulting for 10 years, most recently with Deloitte Consulting LLP.
Adrienne obtained her comprehensive Power Pilates certification in 2009. She completed a demanding program consisting of over 800 hours of study, practice, apprentice teaching, and four levels of testing on Pilates exercises, anatomy, and injury modifications. She taught for six years at Studio Body Logic®, Northern Virginia's first and premier Authentic Pilates studio, where she worked under the direction of Karen Garcia. Karen, having been trained and certified in 1996 by Joseph Pilates protégé Romana Kryzanowska, is one of a handful of second generation Pilates instructors in the world. Adrienne continues to deepen her knowledge and understanding of the method by attending continuing education trainings and workshops with renowned classical Pilates master teachers each year.
Additionally, Adrienne received her certification as a Post Rehabilitative Breast Cancer Exercise Specialist from the Pink Ribbon Program, Inc. For more information on The Pink Ribbon Program please visit www.pinkribbonprogram.com.
Adrienne returned to Central Pennsylvania with her husband Matt to be closer to her family and now enjoys spending much of her free time with her two young children. Adrienne is dedicated to sharing the amazing power of the authentic Pilates system of body conditioning and the safe, dance-based Barre Body® method with her students.
