About

Lucero Barry is the owner and primary teacher at Studio Reset in the NW district of Portland. She has taught extensively throughout the country, including New York, Cambridge, and San Francisco. She is excited by the opportunity to share her expertise with the Portland community.

Lucero teaches both the classical Pilates Method of exercise and the MELT Method of self-care. In 2000, Lucero completed a rigorous certification program with Romana Kryzanowska, a pupil of Joseph Pilates himself, and with master-teacher Bob Liekens.  Since 2012, Lucero has become an advanced level MELT Method instructor by Sue Hitzmann, the Method's creator. 
 
Lucero received a B.F.A. in dance from the Boston Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, with an emphasis on choreography and teaching. After graduation, she moved to New York City where she spent eight years studying and teaching dance. She taught dance at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Floating Hospital, and Homes for The Homeless, among other places. In 1989, to support her dancing career, she began taking classes in the Pilates Method with renown teachers such as Cary Regan and Bob Liekens and Romana Kryzanowska and Sari Mejia Santo among others. Throughout the years she took many workshops with Jean-Claude West, a leading kinesiologist who shifted a paradigm by combining human bio-mechanics with the Pilates Method. She also has taken many Pilates workshops with talented teachers in New York, San Francisco, and Seattle. In 2023 she became a Level 1 Animal Flow instructor. Continuing Ed is important to keep her teaching exciting and inspiring. For the past two years, she has been studying with Beth Lewis, who has deepened her knowledge of the body. As cross-training, Lucero has run marathons and practices yoga. She is a Vipassana meditation practitioner, and is part of an art community called Flow, with Flora Bowley. Long meditation retreats heal her heart. All of these practices influence her teaching.