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Laurie Higgins Contact Information |
Laurie grew up in Seattle, and started riding at age 12.
Her equestrian experiences have included just about every discipline out there along with having ridden a wide variety of breeds of horses. However, once she discovered dressage, she was hooked.
Having moved across country a couple of times, Laurie found herself in southern California, married to her high school sweetheart, with two children and decided to go to massage school. Even though she danced for several years growing up in Seattle, she didn’t hear about Pilates until attending massage school. Laurie finished becoming a Holistic Health Practitioner with over 1300 hours of training and went to work as a massage therapist at a local women’s gym and spa. While there, Laurie had her first Pilates reformer session and fell in love!
Moving cross country again, this time to southeast Pennsylvania, Laurie had the opportunity to become a Stott certified Pilates mat instructor and has never looked back. Then the chance to become certified in EQUESTRIAN PILATES® presented itself and Laurie jumped at the chance. Pilates and horses! A match made in heaven!
Laurie continues her education in Pilates and is always looking to connect it to riding. Having a thorough grounding in massage, bodywork, and energywork helps, too.
Laurie is currently working on her own to train her Anglo-Hanoverian gelding, Atticus, and her thoroughbred, Ollie, in dressage using clicker training and traditional training. She also trains as often as possible with a local dressage trainer, who has given Laurie plenty of ideas of how make mounted warm-up exercises into unmounted Pilates exercises. The light bulbs are going on all the time!