Luisella Petronio
International Certified Polestar Pilates
Luisella Petronio was born in Turin, Italy. At the age of 15 she left studying classical and modern ballet at the John Cranko Schule of Stuttgart in Germany. She fast graduated and was immediately engaged by the Stuttgarter Ballet.
Soon she moved abroad and danced as a soloist with the Zurich Ballet with Uwe Scholz and with the Ballet of Monte Carlo with J.C. Maillot.
After intense international tours through Europe, Asia, North and South America, Luisella suffered a serious knees injury that forced her to interrupt her career. In this difficult period of life she continue discovered the Pilates method.
Conscious about the positive results of the Pilates training she decided to focus and study on Pilates issues and started her Pilates education with Polestar
She holds an International Certification Polestar Pilates on 2004 with Alexander Bohalender ( Osteopath, Homeopath and Polestar Pilates Licensee and Educator, Germany) and Sherri Betz, (Polestar Pilates Educator, USA, owner of TheraPilates, and the Vice-President of the Pilates Method Alliance Clinic, in Santa Cruz CA).
She continue her Pilates education with several international Pilates Master including Brent Anderson, Lolita San Miguel, Rael Isacowitz, Elizabeth Larkam through out Europe and USA learning new method in this fast evolving environment.
Luisella teaches in English, French and Italian language.
Brent Anderson and Luisella
Lolita San Miguel and Luisella
Lolita San Miguel and Luisella