Allison Gonzalez is the owner of Purely Pilates the Bay Area Power Pilates Affiliate Teacher Training Center and is a certified Pilates instructor through the Pilates Guild and Power Pilates. In her twenty year career as a classical ballerina, she performed with ballet and contemporary companies in France, Italy, New York, New Jersey and New Orleans. In New Orleans, as the director of the New Orleans Ballet Ensemble, she implemented Pilates mat classes as part of the training for the company members. Allison discovered the many strength, balance and flexibility benefits Pilates has to offer while rehabilitating from a dance injury. Following twelve years of using Pilates as a form of cross training to her dancing, Allison chose to teach Pilates. She completed the instructor certification program at The Pilates Studio of New York, under the guidance of Romana Kryzanowska, a devotee and pupil of Joseph Pilates and under Bob Liekens is a master teacher of the Pilates method and is now a director at Power Pilates. Allison is now a teacher trainer for Power Pilates of NYC.