Tess Whelan

Tess is the owner of Pilates Premier Studios, Inc. in St. Petersburg, FL, a Power Pilates Affiliate Training Center. As owner of Pilates Premier Studios Tess has successfully established her studio as “Tampa Bay’s First and Finest”, and has been awarded as an entrepreneur by Pinellas County Economic Development. Her business has been featured on Good Business Pinellas and she has appeared on Studio 10TV with Prime Care, LLC. Tess has developed her style of teaching and her expertise through 15 years of teaching, studying and practicing Pilates. Through the years Tess has worked with a multitude of clients from children to the elderly, from the de-conditioned or injured, to the professional athlete. Tess has been certified through The Pilates Studio under the tutelage of Romana Kryzanowska, Joseph Pilates’ protégé, and Power Pilates.

Prior to her Pilates and entrepreneurial careers, Tess earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from Barry University. During her sixteen year career as a nurse she provided nursing care in a variety of different settings which even included “the movie and TV set” having worked as the “set medic” for the cast and crew of major motion pictures such as Armageddon, Contact and Rosewood. She has studied and performed in the arts since age 4 and her performing career includes professional credits in theatre, film, dance and music. Tess’s knowledge of anatomy and physiology, her extensive medical background, as well as her years of dance training and performance enables her to offer training far beyond just teaching exercises. She is an adjunct faculty member of St. Petersburg College and a Power Pilates Teacher Trainer.