Gretchen Johnson
Certified Pilates Instructor
Certified Authentic Pilates Instructor
HCI Certified Health Coach
Ace Certified Personal Trainer
Gretchen Johnson was born and raised in Nashville, TN and always had a love for exercise and competitive sports. She started in gymnastics and moved to competitive cheerleading in high school. After graduating from UT Knoxville, she ventured to New York City to study Pilates at The Pilates Studio of New York, the most famous Pilates school, following the teaching of Joseph Pilates, the founder of this exercise movement. She devoted herself to hundreds of hours of school, private lessons, practice hours and testing to become a certified Authentic Pilates teacher in 2003.
She moved back to her hometown to open Absolute Pilates in Brentwood, Tennessee in 2004. Her love for this method of exercise keeps her motivated and her clients see the results in her classes and in their bodies. She added to her training by completing her Power Pilates Certification in January of 2007, and then again graduated from the Power Pilates Graduate Program in March of 2016 demonstrating advanced knowledge of the Pilates System, the Art of Teaching, and anatomy. She also decided to become an Ace Certified Personal Trainer to add to her knowledge base and be able to provide these services to clients when needed. She sold her studio in 2017 to move to Florida to be closer to family and her adventurous spirit recently brought her to Colorado.