Pilates Instructor, flutist, and health educator, Roger Hoverson, first came across the Pilates Method by chance after picking up a book about Pilates in a Barnes and Noble at the age of 15. Quickly falling in love with Pilates, he practiced for a decade before deciding to become a Pilates Instructor in 2017. Roger has gained a breadth of experience by teaching Pilates at boutique studios in Dallas and Boston, as well as at educational institutions like the University of North Texas and Boston University.

As a flutist and flute teacher, Roger has found Pilates to be an invaluable resource to help facilitate healthy joint function, increased body-awareness, and efficient posture.

During graduate studies at the University of North Texas, Roger was awarded the “Health Literacy Award,” a 40,000$ grant, from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health for his proposal “EMPOWERING BAND, CHOIR, AND ORCHESTRA TEACHERS WITH EFFECTIVE HEALTH EDUCATION STRATEGIES” (UG4LM012345) to help facilitate and expand health education in secondary music classrooms across Texas.

Passionate about sharing his knowledge, Roger has presented health education lectures for undergraduate music students at Saginaw Valley State University in Saginaw, Michigan and Northeastern State University (his alma mater) in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. In 2021, he presented a Breathing workshop at the Texas Flute Society’s Annual Flute Festival in Dallas, Texas.

Roger believes being present with clients is essential as they cultivate awareness of their bodies through movement and he completed Eckhart Tolle’s Teacher of Presence course in 2023 to better achieve that aim.

  Roger Hoverson completed the Comprehensive Balanced Body Pilates Teacher Training at Pilates Unlimited with Karen Sanzo (2019), received his B.A. in Music from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma with Dr. Patricia Surman (2015), and earned his M.M. in Flute Performance with a related field of Performance Art Health from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas (2021), where he was a student of Dr. Mary Karen Clardy.