Sheri Tappert

About Sheri

Sheri is a “recovered lawyer” who has lived in 9 U.S. states, England, Austria, and Japan. She taught primarily writing, reading, and humanities in secondary schools for more than 23 years in California, Colorado, and Japan. Once a runner and All-American swimmer, Sheri’s years as a competitive athlete are long past, but she works out at the gym regularly and cycles, hikes, snowshoes, and rides horses when she can. Her relationship with Pilates began in 2021 as a form of physical therapy for varied injuries, the toll exacted by acute middle age—her chosen phrase, she says, regardless of what AARP’s marketing department would have her believe—and decades of intense training and an enthusiastically active lifestyle. Doctors, PTs, and her now 85-year-old mother, who still attends Pilates twice weekly, all recommended she give it a go. She took an Intro class with studio owner Kelly at Club Pilates-Boulder and never looked back. She appreciates the studio community’s warmth, authenticity, and kindness, and Pilates' neuromuscular training and mindfulness have provided ongoing physical therapy for her body and a dimmer switch for her “compulsively-overthinking” brain. Pilates fuels her love of learning, because its nuance, depth, and breadth offer perpetual opportunity to improve. It feeds her creative side, too, because of the way one can build upon its disciplinary foundations in novel ways. Now a regular part of Sheri’s self-care routine, over time, Pilates has helped her find relief from chronic pain, heal injuries more quickly, prepare for and recover from surgeries, restore some of her lost flexibility and mobility, and more easily engage in daily mundane activities as well as the more adventurous ones she loves. It has also helped her feel more centered through life’s inevitable challenges. She has observed that people come to Pilates for a variety of reasons and with diverse needs and experiences. As an apprentice instructor, she aspires to build relationships with students and cultivate a love for Pilates while helping each individual safely grow, improve, and meet or exceed their own goals. She believes that, despite both the perceived and the very real confines of our routines and limitations, each day is new and different and begs the question, “What is possible today?” Sheri is passionate about traveling, exploring, and learning amongst different peoples, cultures, and environments. She also loves to write, read, paint, draw, garden, do crossword puzzles, and learn about and spend time around animals. She wants to learn how to play pickleball.

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