Laura Dixon's movement background began with ballet at the age of three, and has since grown to encompass the exercise systems of STOTT PILATES®, GYROTONIC®, and GYROKINESIS®. With a passion for dance and performing, Ms. Dixon earned her B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Following college, she performed with professional dance companies in Chicago and Detroit.   Ms. Dixon completed her STOTT PILATES certification at Equilibrium, a Stott Pilates Teacher Training Center in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and at the Toronto Corporate Headquarters.  In 2002, Laura completed her GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® Foundation Training with Master Trainer, Juergen Bamberger, and completed the certification process with Juliu Horvath, founder of the GYROTONIC Expansion System®.

Ms. Dixon opened Harmony Mind Body Fitness in Chicago in 2002, in pursuit of creating a welcoming studio where clients of all ages and physical abilities could work to improve their mind body connection.  Over the past six years, she has been fortunate to work with a wonderful clientele, and enjoys learning from them everyday.



A strong advocate of continuing education,  has most recently completed various teaching workshops including: Survive & Thrive™, Prenatal Pilates, Pilates for Arthritis, Eric Franklin’s “Release Your Shoulders, Liberate Your Neck” and “Pelvic Power”, Pilates & Women’s Health, Anatomy Trains, Pilates for Athletes, and numerous STOTT PILATES workshops. 

Ms. Dixon is a certified STOTT PILATES Instructor Trainer (Mat & Reformer), and a fully certified Level 2 STOTT PILATES Instructor.

Lauren Garson - Apprentice Pilates Instructor, CARDIOLATES®

Tara Gillespie - Pilates, CARDIOLATES®

Courtney Kellogg - Apprentice GYROTONIC® Instructor

Jamila Kekulah Kinney - Pilates, GYROTONIC®, Apprentice GYROKINESIS® Instructor

Angela Palladini - Apprentice Gyrotonic® Instructor, CARDIOLATES®

Alyssa Weishaar - Pilates

Molly Wilson-Jarvis - Pilates, GYROTONIC®

Katie Yohe - Pilates, CARDIOLATES®

DeAwna McGinley-Cherney - Studio Manager