In 1995 Chelsea trained as a home birth midwife with the Massachusetts Midwives Alliance. When she and her husband Pierre had their first child she chose to postpone home birth midwifery practice and focus on the mothering journey. During this time she discovered Pilates mat classes, and was impressed with the precision of the training, as it improved body awareness and sculpted longer, leaner muscles, improving posture and comfort in the body--particularly the spine. In 2000 she trained with Stott and began teaching beginning and intermediate level mat classes at a small yoga studio in Jamaica Plain, MA, the following year. Chelsea is now the proud and busy mother of three children, ages 9, 6, and 7 months. They moved to Decatur in 2004 and she has been teaching Pilates mat classes at Decatur Hot Yoga since March 2005.