Teri Lee Steele

Teri Lee Steele graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with her B.A. in Physical Education with an emphasis on Exercise Physiology and Sports Medicine in 1990. That same year she received her Health and Fitness Instructor certification from the American College of Sports Medicine. She moved to New York in 1991.

From 1991 to 2002, Teri worked as the Head Personal Trainer at PEx, a private New York-based training facility. Teri helped to modernize PEx’s trainer’s training program and hired and trained all of the new trainers from 1997-2002. In 1999 she received her certification in Kickboxing. Teri obtained her Pilates Mat Certification in 2000 and Pilates Apparatus Certification in 2001 from the Kelly Kane School of Core Integration . In 2002 she became certified by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.

Teri created the Steele Pilates Mat Certification Program (accredited by the Pilates Method Alliance) at DNA in 2005 and Continuing Education Curriculum in 2006.