About Me
Lauren (Montefusco) Racca founded Pilates Perfection and Massage, LLC of Greenwich, CT in 2012. Lauren currently maintains her private practice providing Pilates and Massage Therapy services to her clients in their own home studios in Greenwich, CT as well as New Haven County, CT. She also offers Virtual Pilates Sessions as well as Telehealth Wellness Consults to her clients. She also teaches clients regularly at Pilates You, in Seymour, CT. Lauren loves to teach Pilates in the evenings for local Dance Studios. She proudly serves as a Wellness Advocate for doTERRA Essential Oils and currently resides in Cheshire, CT with her husband Michael, and their two beautiful children.
Lauren graduated from (CCMT) Connecticut Center for Massage Therapy - Westport, CT in April of 2005. At CCMT, she was an approved tutor and course assistant for hands-on Clinical courses and Anatomy and Physiology classes. In September of 2005, Lauren accepted a position as an LMT for Griffin Hospital in Derby, CT. During her 7 year career at Griffin, she attended monthly Planetree Retreats where she spoke about the services she provided in the hospital setting as well as providing chair massage to all the new employees during the Retreat. Weekly, she worked with a diverse staff of employees, nurses, doctors and a wide variety of patients in the ICU, Telemetry, Physical Therapy, Cancer Center, Birthing Center, and Special Procedure Units. She also worked for several spas across the state, including spearheading a Medical Spa started by one of the Physicians with whom she worked closely with at Griffin Hospital. After several years working in the Massage Therapy field, Lauren decided to pursue a certification in (MLD) Manual Lymphatic Drainage as well as Pre/Post Natal Massage Care. She has held a CT License since 2005, and is a professional member of the AMTA and the NCBTMB. Lauren has also appeared in several articles in Massage Therapy Journal Magazine.
Lauren’s Pilates experience began as a young dancer in 1998, which culminated with an audition for the NYC Radio City Rockettes in 2000. After being introduced to the Pilates method by her Ballet Instructor, Karen Kopf, Lauren completed a Pilates Mat Certification course through AAAI in 1999. She immediately started teaching Pilates Mat Classes at Lorraine Judd Dance Center in Seymour, CT. In 2007, she joined a Pilates Program at SUNY Purchase College that was led by Simona Cipriani and completed over an 800 hour certification through the (USPA) United States Pilates Association. Lauren sat for the (PMA) Pilates Method Alliance exam in February 2017. Lauren was fortunate to have been able to work under the tutelage of her mentor and second generation teacher, Kathryn Ross Nash on a weekly basis for many years and attended several of her invitational advanced intensive programs. Lauren is a 2017 Alumni of Kathryn Ross Nash's program (PPATT) Pilates Professional Advanced Teacher Training. Lauren has also been asked to perform in several videos on Pilatesology.com and appeared in Pilates Style Magazine.
Lauren's teaching has been influenced by decades of learning since 1998. Lauren is grateful for all the knowledge that has been so graciously shared with her by all of her teachers. She has been blessed to have been able to spend time taking workshops and private lessons from some of the most highly respected Instructors from all over the world, including the late Mari Winsor, Jay Grimes, Kathryn Ross Nash, Peter Fiasca, Blossom Leilani Crawford, Dana Santi, Brooke Siler, Cary Regan, Chris Robinson, Moses Urbano, Lori Coleman Brown, Dorothee VandeWalle, Simona Cipriani, Michael Fritzke, Ton Voogt, Mejo Wiggin, Karen Kopf, Kathy Corey, Brett Howard, Shari Berkowitz, Sean Gallagher and Clare Dunphy.
In 2016 Lauren partnered with doTERRA Essential Oils to become a Wellness Advocate. She had been using essential oils since 2005 within her Massage practice, and in 2016 she was given a sample of doTERRA essential oil of Lavender. Let's just say it was love at first scent! She was completely blown away at the purity and efficacy of these Certified Pure Therapeutic Grade (CPTG) oils. She started sharing the oils with her clients, friends and family, even using the oils with her own children. She began seeing some immediate and powerful results including pain relief, improved sleep, immune support, asthma and allergy relief and so much more! Lauren provides Essential Oil Parties in clients homes and offices to speak about the power of essential oils and the impacts they have on your life. She also provides her clients with Telehealth Wellness consults to answer questions and talk about the safety and proper usage of doTERRA essential oils!