After many years of teaching music and then working in the fitness industry, Mary branched out from traditional gym based work to focus on the study and practice of Pilates. After completing a number of Pilates qualifications, Mary established Pilates Tasmania and for some years taught clinical Pilates in her own practice in Battery Point. In 2018, she sold her practice to Emily and Todd and joined The Studio Salamanca. Along with a growing team of Pilates practitioners much of her time these days is taken up teaching and promoting the safe practice of Pilates to individuals and small groups at Studio Hobart, Salamanca and Soho.
As well as an Advanced Diploma of the Pilates Method, she has aBachelor of Arts Degree in English, a Diploma of Education and a Diploma of Music with majors in Piano and Voice (University of Tasmania). Mary’s other life: Mary is a sixth generation Tasmanian who lives in Hobart, is married to a Psychiatrist, is the mother and slave of three adult children and delighted grandmother of eight!
As well as teaching Pilates, Mary continues to enjoy her passion for music, is a guest fitness presenter on ABC radio and has been a motivational speaker for several years – presenting at conferences throughout Tasmania, as well as interstate and overseas, on a range of topics such as lifestyle, wellbeing, fitness and stress management. Using slides and anecdotes of personal experiences gained whilst walking in the most remote and primitive areas of the world, Mary entertains audiences of all ages with personal, at times intimate, and always colorful tales of her adventures. These include being dropped by helicopter into an active volcano in Siberia, walking in the tracks of bears through the birch forests of Kamchatka, surviving a bus crash on the slopes of the Pamirs in Tajikistan, teaching Mongolian horsemen the idiosyncrasies of the ancient game of Royal Tennis, working with local farmers in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, joining the Buddhist monks in prayer at Ganden, a remote monastery in Tibet,exploring the wadis of Yemen and not too many years ago, she celebrated her 60 th birthday with family and friends on the slopes of Mount Everest in Tibet! Special interests include a continuing passion for trekking in remotes places, singing with the Tasmanian Symphony Chorus, bush walking with family and friends, playing Real Tennis (rather badly) and, when time permits, playing bridge.
