Meet Rebecca

Rebecca Sirkel is a Pilates and Feet-ness instructor with over 20 years of experience in the mind/body industry, including Personal Training, Yoga, and Pilates. Rebecca loves to teach fitness fanatics and individuals that want to learn how to enhance their sport and movement practice. She specializes in postural alignment and correcting muscular imbalances to help you move gracefully. She took her lifelong love of movement and created a career in fitness after earning her degree in Exercise Science at Arizona State University.

Accomplishments

· Degree in Exercise Science from Arizona State University 2002

· Power Pilates Comprehensive Certification 2006

· Pilates Method Alliance Certification 2011

· Teacher Trainer for Power Pilates 2012-2019

· Plant-Based Nutrition Certification from eCornell 2014

· Feet-ness certified in 2020

· Pilates Professional Advanced Teacher Training program with Kathi Ross-Nash 2022

HER STORY

Rebecca became a full-time Personal Trainer and found success competing in figure competitions. Despite her strength, she woke up with lower back pain each day. She took her first Pilates mat class at a wellness retreat in Mexico. She found Pilates could ease tension and release her pain in one session. The focus on the pelvis and core connection throughout Pilates was the missing piece from her workouts. 

Rebecca continued taking Pilates sessions from different schools of thought until she found two teachers, husband, and wife, that she loved in Arizona. These teachers became her mentors and ultimately inspired her to become a Pilates teacher herself in 2005. Her love for Pilates and the method grew into wanting to share it with others, and she embarked on a year of intense training to become a Teacher of Teachers for Power Pilates in 2012.   She grew the community of teachers in the Scottsdale, Phoenix area, and the company promoted her to Regional Director in 2017.

Pilates became her passion, and after teaching fitness for 17 years, she added a Feet-ness certification in 2020. She noticed many clients had foot conditions and needed help to do the footwork in the method correctly. After trying a class, she learned about Feet-ness and discovered how this could elevate her and her client's practice by addressing foot and toe imbalances in a user-friendly way. Try this foot exercise to see how amazing your feet can feel in three minutes or less. 

Rebecca decided to go Plant-based in 2011 after watching the documentary "Forks Over Knives."   She considers a whole-food, plant-based diet the secret ingredient to vitality and slowing aging. She read many books about eating this way, including "The China Study," which led to her education and certification with eCornell in Plant-Based Nutrition. 

Along with personalized Pilates programs to help you achieve your best body, she is armed with the most up-to-date nutrition and lifestyle medicine research to help you reach your maximum potential.

Specialties include:

Postural Alignment

Athletic Performance

Pre and Postnatal clients

Low Back Pain Relief

Feet-ness (Foot Fitness)

Plant-Based Nutrition

"To live your fullest, happiest life, you must make your physical fitness and nutrition a top priority. Pilates & Feet-ness are amazing, but a whole food plant-based diet is the secret ingredient to vitality and slowing down the aging process."

"When your body has the nourishment it needs, you can share your gifts and serve your purpose."

Rebecca Sirkel