About Jennifer Gianni

Expertise

Jennifer Gianni is one of the industry’s leading expert in fitness:

19 years of experience in the mind/body field
Master Teacher of Fusion Pilates^™ Instructor Training
Balanced Body University Faculty Member
Trained Doula in Labor & Post-Partum Support
Lead in Fit Pregnancy’s first ever Post Natal DVD
PMA Certified
ACE Certified
Firm^™ Video Lead and Choreographer
PodFitness.com Featured Trainer
Specialist on Lifetime Channel’s “My Workout”
Master Pilates Instructor
Certified Instructor in Gyrotonic^®, Gyrokinesis^® & Yoga
Specializes in Pre & Post Natal Pilates at her Asheville studio
Teaches her proprietary “Fusion Pilates^™ for Pregnancy” worldwide
PMA Continuing Education Provider

magazines featuring Jennifer and Fusion Pilates

Press

As the industry’s leading expert in fitness for pregnancy and Pilates in general, Jennifer Gianni and Fusion Pilates^™ have a constant presence in world’s most respected media outlets.

Celebrities

Jennifer Gianni’s client list includes:

Award winning actress Maria Bello
Academy Award winner Hilary Swank
Maybelline Covergirl Erin Wasson
Actress Emily Rutherfurd (New Adv Old Christine)
Supermodel Tatiana Patitz
Model/Face of Oil of Olay Daisy Bates
Actress Wanda de Jesus (CSI Miami)
Actor Patrick Fischler (Mullholland Drive, Black Dahlia)
Gretchen Mol (The Notorious Betty Paige)
Elizabeth Mitchell (Lost)
Appeared in What Women Want with Mel Gibson

Jennifer Gianni’s Personal History

Jennifer grew up in Columbia, South Carolina, where she was active in dance and athletics. At the age of thirteen, she began working out with her mother at The Firm's^™ headquarters in Columbia. Jennifer was lucky enough to have witnessed the filming of The Firm's^™ very first video, and it was here that she first fell in love with the exercise field and began to see it as a lifestyle and career for herself.

Jennifer (then Peluso) kept working out at The Firm^™ and became a teacher there at the age of eighteen. She soon became involved with the making of their videos and took part as a cast member, choreographer and lead in several of their very best workout tapes.

In time, Jennifer began to feel that her overall exercise plan was too narrow in scope. She spent the next seven years getting the highest quality training available in Pilates, Yoga and Gyrotonic^® from the most respected names in the business, including Romana Kryzanowska, Juliu Horvath and Bryan Kest.

Once she had the building blocks from all of these different disciplines, Jennifer began formulating her own method by infusing the most effective components from each discipline and adding her own original content. This Body/Mind approach became her passion, and the outcome is Jennifer Gianni's Fusion Pilates Method.

Studio History

Jennifer Gianni founded her first studio, called Embodyment, utilizing the concept that Pilates, Yoga, and Gyrotonic^® could be combined to create customized work out programs for each client according to their individual mind/body goals.

Embodyment studio began in a small garage behind Jennifer’s house in Venice, California. Within a year her client roster was full to overflowing (even celebs like Hilary Swank visited the old garage!) and it was time to expand. The studio expanded two more times in the next five years and became the home to twelve excellent and dedicated teachers.

In 2006, Jennifer decided to merge this thriving studio with Angel City Body Kinetics in Marina del Rey, owned and operated by her mentor and Pilates legend, Marie Jose-Blom. Jennifer still travels back and forth to teach at ACBK, but in an effort to simplify her families lifestyle, has relocated to Asheville, NC where she has opened a studio that is the culmination of all of her experience to date. “This studio is everything I’ve always thought a studio should be. We have the most up to date Pilates and Gyrotonic^® equipment, it’s a gorgeous and soothing space, and it has a private and comfortable environment that’s sometimes missing in fitness facilities,” says Jennifer.

Fusion Pilates Asheville also allows Jennifer to realize her dream of opening a facility that is not only a cutting edge studio for teaching Pilates and Gyrotonic^® to clients, but a training center where instructors can come to improve their skills as well. The studio will offer teacher training courses in The Fusion Pilates Method^™ (a comprehensive Pilates training), Fusion Pilates^™ for Pre & Post Natal^™, Gyrotonic^® Training and workshops of interest that will be open to teachers and serious clients.