05/04/2026
Chantal Pierrat founded SoulSweat™ in 2003 with one goal: to dance funky, sweat hard, and energize her spirit — and to make a class where other people could do the same. She’d been dancing her whole life — ballet, jazz, modern, and yoga, layered with years inside African, Latin, hip-hop, house, and the international rave scene — and she wanted a room that pulled all of it together into something joyful, unselfconscious, and truly transformational.
Two decades in, that’s still the heart of every class she teaches. She also leads workshops and trainings for students who want to take SoulSweat deeper, including those becoming SoulSweat teachers themselves.
Off the dance floor, Chantal is founder and CEO of Emerging Human, a leadership development company working with Fortune 100 organizations, and CEO of Emerging Women, a 30,000-person community advancing inclusive leadership. She lives in Boulder with her husband and two sons.
