Leah Strauss Grant Balanced Body Educator Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher

Leah Strauss Grant

Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher

Balanced Body Educator

Leah Grant is a Balanced Body Educator, Certified Pilates Instructor, and Integrative Movement Specialist with a decade of experience helping people move with strength, balance, and awareness. As a Balanced Body Educator, she teaches Pilates and modern movement principles grounded in biomechanics—designing safe, creative, and effective programs for all bodies.

Beyond her professional certifications, Leah’s insight as a teacher is shaped by her personal health journey, living with Type 1 diabetes and autonomic dysfunction. Through meticulous self-observation, she has developed a profound respect for the interconnectedness of body and mind — a perspective that infuses her teaching with empathy and realism.

A lifelong learner and mover, Leah holds a BFA in Photography and once lived in Paris studying fine arts—her “true birthplace,” she likes to say. When not teaching, she enjoys traveling with her husband, visiting family in Chicago and Denver, and spending summers in Michigan. You’ll often find her with her nose in a book, savoring fresh eats, or with her two corgi puppies—who visit the studio on Thursdays (come say hi!).

Leah believes movement is education, and helping others to move well is one of life’s most generous acts.

Kane School Mat Certification: 2013

Postural Restoration Institute (PRI) Integration for Pilates: 2019

Integrated Movement Specialist: 2022

Balanced Body Comprehensive Certificate: 2023

Balanced Body Reformer Certification: 2019

Postural Restoration Institute (PRI) Pelvis Restoration: 2019

MELT Level 1 Trainer: 2022

About Leah

What do you feel is the most unique quality of Pilates as a mindful movement?

How you learn to live pain free!  Movement is empowering and giving students the tools to be aware of their body's, how to move better, and release pain is Pilates greatest quality.

Currently, what is your favorite Pilates exercise, on any apparatus?

Swan - Push Through Bar on the Trap Table, or any apparatus too.  Focused on strengthening the upper back and increasing shoulder mobility, this exercise helps so many of us!

What tickles you most about teaching Pilates?

Observing my students, clarifying a cue and seeing a ripple effect of movement as each student rediscovers the nuances of the exercise to perform it better!  It's sweeter than dessert.