The ABD Team:
Experienced, Qualified Fitness and Pilates Instructors
Artistic Body Development is:
1. A team of seasoned, passionate Pilates-based fitness instructors with a diverse background in exercise and dance. Their experience teaching classical and non-traditional Pilates techniques adds up to more years experience than we’d like to count.
2. A community. We cherish a relaxed but thriving atmosphere in our studio, and we strive to make our classes enjoyable and fun. We embrace diversity. Our students come from a vast range of backgrounds and are of all different ages. We maintain a very casual attitude at our studio; there is no competition, and students can work at their own level of comfort and physical capability. The atmosphere is light and pressure-free, quite a different experience from larger gyms.
1. A team of seasoned, passionate Pilates-based fitness instructors with a diverse background in exercise and dance. Their experience teaching classical and non-traditional Pilates techniques adds up to more years experience than we’d like to count.
2. A community. We cherish a relaxed but thriving atmosphere in our studio, and we strive to make our classes enjoyable and fun. We embrace diversity. Our students come from a vast range of backgrounds and are of all different ages. We maintain a very casual attitude at our studio; there is no competition, and students can work at their own level of comfort and physical capability. The atmosphere is light and pressure-free, quite a different experience from larger gyms.
ANDREA Bains
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Andrea Bains studied ballet under the direction of Larry Boyette and George Tomal and danced professionally with both The Wisconsin Ballet and The Milwaukee Ballet companies. She was first introduced to Pilates work in the 1970s through Ron Fletcher’s Contrology of Beverly Hills, CA. Upon returning to her home state of Colorado, she continued her ballet training including performances at Ballet Arts Theatre, Colorado Council of the Arts, and Opera Colorado. Andrea partnered with Mike Dailey in many of these performances, leading to their partnership in ABD, and with Andrea later opening Artistic Body Development South in Centennial, CO in 1999. Andrea has grown the area of the business working with individuals who desire private lessons or require post rehabilitation sessions.
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MICHAEL Dailey
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Michael Dailey established Artistic Body Development in 1986 through the training and encouragement of his ballet master Larry Boyette. Mr. Boyette was a seasoned ballet dancer with both the American Ballet Theatre and the Metropolitan Opera Ballet, and practiced the Pilates Method under the instruction of Joseph Pilates himself. Mike took this instruction, and his experience as a dancer with Ballet Arts Theatre, to develop Myopatterning™ and found Artistic Body Development.
Since the creation of the company, Mike has trained numerous students in the study of Pilates and Kinesiology, including an adjunct position at Colorado College, and a private instructorship at the University of Colorado, Boulder. |
Ty York
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Ty York was introduced to Artistic Body Development as a student. He later began teaching, a passion that is both professional and personal. Ty was trained in classical and contemporary ballet at the Colorado Conservatory of Dance. While training there, Jayne Persch encouraged Ty to build a fundamental basis of how the body works by having him follow the disciplines of martial arts, gymnastics and Parkour. Teaching Myopatterning at Artistic Body Development brings him joy and immense satisfaction. He brings all of these disciplines into his teaching style, helping him work with everyone regardless of age and ability.
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simone FM Spinner
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A former teen dance champion and university dance major, Simone FM Spinner was introduced to the Pilates method by her university ballet master, Larry Boyette. At Boyette’s insistence, Simone began supplemental ballet training at his Denver and Boulder Ballet Arts studios, Pilates training in Boulder, and group Pilates classes at Artistic Body Development in Denver with Michael Dailey in 1987. Simone began teaching for ABD in 1990 and by the time she left in 2009, she was teaching eight classes a week. She maintained her practice for the next 15 years. A chance journalism assignment in 2023 led her back to ABD. Within days of her interview with Michael, she realized she belonged back in the classroom, training her body and guiding others to meet their fitness and wellness goals.
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Winston
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Born November 16, 2020 in Peonia, Colorado, Winston Churchill joined the ABD family in 2021. He carries the legacy of being our official greeter, treat eater and people lover that our original and beloved mascot, Gipper, maintained for 13 years prior.
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