When you meet Suzanne Mente, you should know that two things are going to happen. Sooner or later, you will find yourself in a discussion on hip mobility, and sooner or later, you are going to laugh. She has a direct approach to teaching and coaching, punctuated with humor. Suzanne was a highly-accomplished individual prior to becoming a Pilates Instructor:  lecturer through the equine program at Umass, riding team coach, dressage teacher (a competition in which horses perform special movements in response to signals from their riders ), freelance riding teacher. But when she discovered Pilates, she realized that it's the perfect jumping board to whatever is next in a person's life, that it eliminates or diminishes barriers.