Our Team

the Pilates studio @ Finis Boni

Intelligent Exercise + Real Results

Our Team

Our Team
Our team consists of dynamic, highly educated instructors that have incredible knowledge and dedication to the Pilates method. Our team will challenge you to go to a deeper place in your body. The guiding principles of the Pilates method are whole body health, whole body commitment, and whole body breath. Our team is committed to guiding you through those principles with our extensive knowledge and in-depth, world renowned training. We trust you will come here to do Pilates, and in that process find a surprising journey of inner connection to mind, body and spirit. We look forward to your journey with us!

Liz Ziegler

Liz, with her partner Teresa, founded the Pilates Studio @ Finis Boni in 2007 in order to create a unique environment for healing and mind-body fitness. After a re constructive ankle surgery, Liz discovered Pilates to assist her in rehabilitating her ankle. In that process she fell in love with how much it helped her over all health and inner connection to her soul. After a lot of research and consideration, she attended the world-renowned Pilates Center Teacher Certification program in 2002. Liz has been teaching in the Vail Valley since that time, where most of those years she was managing the Pilates program at the Vail Athletic Club. She continues to enhance her learning through educational workshops with master instructors and studying various modalities to support her knowledge of the inner workings of the body. Liz loves watching people grow in their bodies and soul, knowing that through the guidance of the amazing work of Pilates, people have a chance to learn so much about themselves encompassing mind, body and spirit. "It's such a gift to be able to call this my career."

When Liz isn't in the Pilates studio, she is busy enjoying her husband and best friend Chadd and Bernese Mountain Dog, Sonoma. With her love for family and the mountains, Liz finds it easy to fill her days living in the Vail Valley!

Teresa Shay
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
                                                                                                    -Henry David Thoreau

Teresa is a co-owner and founder of the Pilates Studio @ Finis Boni. Teresa began practicing Pilates in 1996 with a goal of gaining more strength, balance, and flexibility in her body. After experiencing how Pilates can transform the body, she decided to become a certified teacher.   Teresa received her Pilates teacher training Certification from the world-renowned Pilates Center in Boulder, Colorado in 1998. She is passionate about Pilates which shows in her teaching. It is her goal to help her clients create positive change in their bodies. She provides friendly guidance with detailed instruction and attention to form to help her clients obtain a functional, balanced body that moves with ease and awareness. She continues to study with master teachers, attending several workshops a year.

When she isn't practicing or teaching Pilates, Teresa indulges in numerous outdoor activities. Her favorite being out trail-running, summer or winter, with a group of friends and several dogs- including her own Golden Retriever, Riley. She and Riley are a certified Pet Partners Team and visit patients in Vail Valley Medical Hospital helping in their healing process. Her other joys in life are her husband Denny and her daughter, Katie.

The Pilates Studio @ Finis Boni 2007 / Phone: (970-926-9060) / Located in the Vail Valley