Alina Seright
Owner, Advanced Instructor
Alina Seright is the owner of the family owned Omni Pilates, LLC, the first private fitness and wellness studio in Southwest Lubbock. Certified in the Stott Pilates method, Alina is certified to work with injured and special populations as well anyone seeking advanced fitness comfortably and safely.
The Stott method and equipment allow Alina to customize workouts to fit individual needs and goals, Omni accommodates men and women of all ages, from post-rehab clients to highly trained athletes, through group or private sessions.
What would Alina like to share most? The wide range of benefits that Pilates can afford any individual, including:
Focusing on the total client, Alina has broadened her studio to include Mindfulness Meditation.
Alina believes that healthy people build healthy communities, and community networking has always been a priority for her. She is president of Lubbock Executive Forum, an Ambassador for Lubbock Food Bank, a member of the Hispanic Association of Women, LULAC, and National Association of Professional Women. Alina and her husband John Seright, a local CPA and partner of Robinson Burdette Martin & Seright, LLP, have four children, Sasha, Sarah, Stephanie, and Ryan—all of whom share Alina’s passion for fitness. Stephanie Diaz has joined the studio as Alina’s Operation Manager and a Pilates instructor. Sarah, a fashion and merchandising graduate of Texas Tech University, manages the studio’s clothing shop. Alina brings her own brand of optimism and sense of humor to her skills as a Pilates Instructor.
Alina has successfully completed her STOTT PILATES® Intensive Reformer & Advanced Reformer training in Houston at Pilates South Texas Center. She completed her STOTT PILATES® Intensive Barrel Training at the ONE Pilates Studio in Denver, Colorado. Alina is also a Certified Primary/Advance Pilates and Modern Pilates Instructor through FiTOUR. She has participated in STOTT PILATES® Jump Board Interval Training Levels 1 and 2 workshops and the STOTT PILATES® Athletic Conditioning Power and Agility Reformer Intervals on Cardio-Tramp Rebounder Workshops and Golf Conditioning Levels 1 through 4. She is also certified in STOTT Pilates Total Barre, Halo, ZEN•GA Mat and ZEN•GA equipment, Injuries and Special Populations.
For more information on Alina's certification, visit www.merrithew.com/find-an-instructor
The Stott method and equipment allow Alina to customize workouts to fit individual needs and goals, Omni accommodates men and women of all ages, from post-rehab clients to highly trained athletes, through group or private sessions.
What would Alina like to share most? The wide range of benefits that Pilates can afford any individual, including:
- Improved strength, flexibility, coordination, speed, agility, endurance, balance, and proprioception
- Heightened body awareness and control
- Spine-protective muscle activation, corrective posture and alignment
- Optimized function of the internal organs
- The physical and psychological benefits of correct breathing, including release of tension; optimal maintenance of musculature and bone structure; more aesthetic distribution of body mass (people report looking and feeling slimmer and more toned)
- A path to inner harmony through a finely tuned body
Focusing on the total client, Alina has broadened her studio to include Mindfulness Meditation.
Alina believes that healthy people build healthy communities, and community networking has always been a priority for her. She is president of Lubbock Executive Forum, an Ambassador for Lubbock Food Bank, a member of the Hispanic Association of Women, LULAC, and National Association of Professional Women. Alina and her husband John Seright, a local CPA and partner of Robinson Burdette Martin & Seright, LLP, have four children, Sasha, Sarah, Stephanie, and Ryan—all of whom share Alina’s passion for fitness. Stephanie Diaz has joined the studio as Alina’s Operation Manager and a Pilates instructor. Sarah, a fashion and merchandising graduate of Texas Tech University, manages the studio’s clothing shop. Alina brings her own brand of optimism and sense of humor to her skills as a Pilates Instructor.
Alina has successfully completed her STOTT PILATES® Intensive Reformer & Advanced Reformer training in Houston at Pilates South Texas Center. She completed her STOTT PILATES® Intensive Barrel Training at the ONE Pilates Studio in Denver, Colorado. Alina is also a Certified Primary/Advance Pilates and Modern Pilates Instructor through FiTOUR. She has participated in STOTT PILATES® Jump Board Interval Training Levels 1 and 2 workshops and the STOTT PILATES® Athletic Conditioning Power and Agility Reformer Intervals on Cardio-Tramp Rebounder Workshops and Golf Conditioning Levels 1 through 4. She is also certified in STOTT Pilates Total Barre, Halo, ZEN•GA Mat and ZEN•GA equipment, Injuries and Special Populations.
For more information on Alina's certification, visit www.merrithew.com/find-an-instructor
Alexandria (Alex) Hernandez
With her diverse background in athletics, dance, and training, Alex can help you meet a range of fitness goals. Alex is certified in a classical Pilates system by Power Pilates and has a personal training certificate. She has over six years experience in the fitness industry working with many different clients from ages nine to eighty-nine. She has worked with such athletes as golfers, climbers, and runners and with special and injured populations through pregnancy, post-surgery, pelvic floor dysfunction, and nerve-pain issue.
The benefits of including classical Pilates workouts carries over to a stronger body in all aspects of life whether you are an athlete, new mom, or wanting to create greater circulation within your body to keep vital systems operative. Alex is able to fuse her personal training Certificate of Applied Functional Science with Pilates to create the best workout for your goals!
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology-Health Promotion with a minor in Theatre & Dance from the University of Texas, Austin, is certified in Applied Functional Science through the Gray Institute, and is a Power Pilates Comprehensive Certified Instructor. Alex is certified on all Pilates equipment; mat, reformer, trapeze/cadillac, wunda chair, stability chair, ladder barrel, tower, jumpboard, ped-o-pull, and foot pedal.
In her spare time, Alex enjoys dancing, experimenting with different foods, and traveling with her husband, Zach.
For more information on Alex's certification, visit powerpilates.com/trainer/Alexandria%20Macias
The benefits of including classical Pilates workouts carries over to a stronger body in all aspects of life whether you are an athlete, new mom, or wanting to create greater circulation within your body to keep vital systems operative. Alex is able to fuse her personal training Certificate of Applied Functional Science with Pilates to create the best workout for your goals!
She earned a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology-Health Promotion with a minor in Theatre & Dance from the University of Texas, Austin, is certified in Applied Functional Science through the Gray Institute, and is a Power Pilates Comprehensive Certified Instructor. Alex is certified on all Pilates equipment; mat, reformer, trapeze/cadillac, wunda chair, stability chair, ladder barrel, tower, jumpboard, ped-o-pull, and foot pedal.
In her spare time, Alex enjoys dancing, experimenting with different foods, and traveling with her husband, Zach.
For more information on Alex's certification, visit powerpilates.com/trainer/Alexandria%20Macias
Suzanne Dickenson
Suzanne is an Atheltic Academic Advisor for women's tennis, track, and field at Texas Tech University. Her primary role is providing personal, vocational, educational, and advanced counseling and training at both the individual and group levels. She is pivotal in the management of counseling programs for her teams by assisting with course selection to ensure degree progress and completion, and serves simultaneously as the liaison between student-athletes and the coaching staff regarding academic progress. She began taking classes here at Omni Pilates and fell in love with it so much that she is now an apprentice instructor learning to teach classes of her own!
Callie Borgman
From a young age Callie has been involved with organized sports, has used running as her stress relief, and played field hockey in college. After college her injuries from running began to affect her mobility and she knew there had to be something she could do to counteract the aggressive stress she had put on her body. Luckily during her research, she found Omni Pilates. Callie is a student turned instructor because everything began to rebalance in her body. "It was a breath of fresh air to realize you could work out without worrying about injuring yourself," says Callie. Pilates has steadily improved her self confidence. Everyone has a different body, with various balances and imbalances. Callie's goal is to help her clients feel the same way by focusing on what your body can do, and how to strengthen and elongate specific muscle groups to make an individual feel more balanced and centered.
Erica Schmalenberger
Erica is a graduate student at Texas Tech Health Science Center, studying to become an occupational therapist. After graduating in her hometown, Houston, with her Bachelors of Science in Kinesiology, she took a number of trainings and continuing education courses to earn her yoga certification for adults and children. During her early college years, while participating in collegiate sports, Erica was introduced to yoga at her local gym and fell in love with the practice as it gave her a sense of freedom and release after a long day. Before Erica’s move to Lubbock May 2018, she enjoyed teaching yoga to patients at a physical therapy clinic and to children at several schools. Erica’s intention as an instructor is to enhance her student's quality of life through focusing on mind, body, and breath. Outside of school, she enjoys taking her dog to the park, being in nature, and gardening.
Sarah (Daisy) Diaz
Operations Manager Daisy Diaz has a passion for wellness, yoga and the overall wellbeing of humanity. After completing her Bachelor of Science in Retail Management in May 2016, this TTU graduate began working on her masters degree as a teaching assistant for Dr. Deborah Fowler the program director in TTU’s College of Human Sciences. She graduated with her Masters of Science Degree in Hospitality and Retail Management August of 2017.
Her graduate studies took her to New York, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Canada. Daisy has worked in the retail industry since she was sixteen, beginning with Hollister Co. and Caché, where she learned the complexities of catering to a diverse clientele. In summer 2015 she completed an internship in California for BCBG Maxazria. Her most recent retail employment in industry was as a visual merchandiser for the sixth leading retailer in America, Target. Since then she has worked various jobs in the hospitality industry such as bartender, server, and most recently a director of sales for Farm to Fork. She assisted with caterings for a food truck based company that creates culinary creations from local farmers.
Daisy assists Omni Pilates with the operations of the company. Daisy's dream is to employ her skills and passion of wellness and yoga mixed with hospitality and retail and create a dream life of travel out of it.
Her graduate studies took her to New York, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Canada. Daisy has worked in the retail industry since she was sixteen, beginning with Hollister Co. and Caché, where she learned the complexities of catering to a diverse clientele. In summer 2015 she completed an internship in California for BCBG Maxazria. Her most recent retail employment in industry was as a visual merchandiser for the sixth leading retailer in America, Target. Since then she has worked various jobs in the hospitality industry such as bartender, server, and most recently a director of sales for Farm to Fork. She assisted with caterings for a food truck based company that creates culinary creations from local farmers.
Daisy assists Omni Pilates with the operations of the company. Daisy's dream is to employ her skills and passion of wellness and yoga mixed with hospitality and retail and create a dream life of travel out of it.
Stephanie Diaz
Stott-trained Pilates instructor, Stephanie Diaz has been with Omni Pilates since August 2013. She has been teaching Pilates since 2015. STOTT-certified to teach essential and intermediate reformer classes, she is trained also in stability chair, mat, athletic conditioning, ZEN*GA, and prenatal Pilates. Stephanie has a passion for holistic wellness and holds a certification in clinical herbalism from the Herbal Academy. She is devoted to health and fitness and loves working with people. She hopes to soon earn her certification in Yoga.
