meet your instructors
At Havenwell Pilates in Franklin, Tennessee, we’re all about helping people feel strong, supported, and confident in their bodies— especially those living with chronic pain or spinal fusions.
Our team blends real-life experience, professional training, and a whole lot of heart. Founder and instructor Allie brings a unique mix of empathy, expertise, and movement know-how to every session, and instructor Katie brings that same heart, plus firsthand experience of what it’s like to live with a spinal fusion and chronic pain herself.
Get to know the people who make Havenwell a supportive, empowering space to move and heal.
ALLIE MYSZKA
Allie Myszka is the owner and founder of Havenwell Pilates. She has lived with a multi-level spinal fusion for scoliosis since 2007, and has been teaching movement since 2017.
After discovering how much movement helped her own chronic pain in her early twenties, Allie left journalism for fitness. Her mission: help people with spinal fusions and chronic pain regain their confidence through Pilates, so they can live with a sense of adventure — no matter what their body’s story is. Her teaching style is shaped both by her own journey and by the hundreds of clients she’s since walked through fusion recovery and pain management.
Allie is a Nationally Certified Pilates Instructor, NASM Certified Personal Trainer, and trauma-informed Pilates practitioner. In 2021, she opened Havenwell Pilates in Franklin, Tennessee, and has since built an international reach with online spinal fusion education and adaptable Pilates classes for people living with fusions or chronic conditions.
Allie can (and will, if given the chance) talk your ear off about pain science and the connection between mind and body. Outside the studio, she’s usually deep in a DIY project, out for a run, baking something, or curled up with a good book.
Qualifications
- Comprehensively Certified Pilates Instructor – Balanced Body
- Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher (NCPT)
- NASM Certified Personal Trainer
Additional Education
- Trauma-Informed Pilates Approach – Trifecta Pilates/Beth Sandlin
- Understand the Pelvic Floor – Brent Anderson
- Fascia-Focused Pilates – Elizabeth Larkam and Tom Myers
Specialties
- Spinal pathologies (scoliosis, disc injuries, stenosis, spondy)
- Spinal fusions
- Chronic conditions + recurring injuries
KATIE ABRAMSON
Katie Abramson is an instructor at Havenwell Pilates. She has lived with scoliosis and a spinal fusion since she was a teenager, and has been teaching Pilates since 2025.
Katie’s own Pilates journey began after rheumatoid arthritis derailed her active lifestyle. Her rheumatologist suggested she try it, and it transformed how she moved and felt. Living with a fusion herself, she didn’t realize how strong and capable her body could be until she found this work, and after coming to Havenwell as a client, she went on to train as an instructor. Her teaching style is encouraging, educational, and judgment-free, and she loves helping clients understand the why behind every exercise.
Katie completed a 500-hour Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training Program through Club Pilates under a STOTT-certified Master Trainer, and trained under Allie in Havenwell’s accessible Pilates approach. Before Pilates, she spent more than 30 years in healthcare (15 of them in direct patient care), so she brings a clinically-grounded and anatomy-based lens to how she teaches movement.
When she’s not teaching, you’ll find Katie strength training, lost in an audiobook, or gathered around a game table with her husband and their two adult kids. She’s a devoted animal lover, a musical theater and classic movie fan, and — by her own admission! — would happily be a lifelong student if work didn’t get in the way.
Qualifications
- Comprehensively Certified Pilates Instructor – Club Pilates
Specialties
- Beginners and anyone who’s ever felt too intimidated or self-conscious to walk into a fitness space
- Chronic conditions, past injuries, and complex bodies
- Building strength and confidence in a completely judgment-free environment