Meet Kim

Kim Wyatt is the owner and senior Pilates instructor at Pilates by Kim. She discovered the life-changing benefits of Pilates while living and working in for a publishing company in Nashville, TN. As a dancer and gymnast growing up, Kim was drawn to the familiarity of the exercises long before she fully understood their purpose and intention. As she continued taking classes, the desire to one day teach this work began to take root.

She and her husband moved to her hometown of Northport, AL, in 2014. By January 2015, they became parents with the arrival of Joshua (along with Jeff’s older sons, Billy and Stephen). Full-time parenthood shelved any plans for teacher training or Pilates practice for many years until Kim stumbled into a Pilates Mat class sponsored by the local Parks and Recreation department. The instructor tapped Kim as her understudy, and before long Kim was leading her own classes two mornings a week. She quickly picked up more classes around time and eventually landed at UA’s Student Recreation Center.

Joining the Rec opened a new world of teaching possibilities for Kim, not the least of which was getting into the Pilates equipment realm. Once she began her formal training, she was hooked, and in 2015 she completed her comprehensive training.

Kim left UA in 2019 to devote her full attention to her studio, Pilates by Kim, and she hasn’t looked back. Pilates continues to shape and challenge Kim in new, exciting ways all the time, na has afforded her a vocation and purpose unlike anything else she’s ever done 9except being a mom!).

Kim has a B.A. in English from Berry College and completed extensive post-graduate work in Mass Communications and Secondary Education at the University of Alabama. She is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher and a graduate of the Kathy Grant Heritage Training program.

If you are considering a career as Pilates teacher and future studio-owner, Kim would be thrilled to talk to you about her experience over the last 12 years. She welcomes the chance to mentor new teachers and get nerdy about Pilates. Contact her at pilatesbykim@gmail.com or call 205-534-0344.

Kim’s Fast Facts:

• She is a charter member of the Bama Bounders, the youth gymnastics team founded by former UA-gymnastics head coach Sarah Patterson.
• Kim performed in the first Tuscaloosa Community Dancer’s production of The Nutcracker. She was one of the clowns that come out from Mother Ginger’s skirt. 
• Kim began her dance days at Martha Jamison’s School of Ballet when she was three years old.
•  Kim was a member of Florida State’s synchronized swim club, the Tarpons, from 1987-88.