Certifications:
CPNYC Comprehensive Training Course, Top Rope and Lead Certified (Brooklyn Boulders)
Degrees:
B.F.A. Professional Music, Berklee College of Music
Years Teaching Pilates:
2
Hometown:
New York, NY
Top 3 Hobbies or Activities:
Rock climbing, weightlifting, and playing music
What kind of bagel do you like and how do you prefer to “dress” it?
Onion bagel with scallion cream cheese
What’s your favorite exercise to teach and do you have a special spin to it that you prefer?
Hanging pull ups; I help push people up through the bars so they can then resist their way down
If Joseph Pilates were alive today, what would you ask him?
I would ask if he was excited that there are so many new and different approaches to Pilates, or if he was disappointed that it didn’t stay true to the original system he laid out.
Top 3 places you’ve traveled?
Greece, Hawaii, Switzerland
Top 3 things on your “To Do Before You Die” list?
To sleep in a hammock, dangling off of a cliff’s edge hundreds of feet above ground; to go skydiving; and to experience the realization of singularity.
What’s the farthest point from the Core studio (or NYC) that you’ve done Pilates?
The Upper East Side
What’s your Pilates “a-ha” moment?
From the very first session I ever took, my back felt 100 times better! It instantly gave me the mental connection to prevent further injury.
Two words that describe your teaching style?
Energetic and fun
Favorite type of sessions or classes to teach and why?
Privates, because as a teacher I am able to connect to my client on a more personal level, and also gear the session more toward them.
Care to share any teaching blunders?
I once told my entire mat class, during a figure four stretch, to “open their butts up” to the window in front of them.
Where can we find you usually on any given Friday eve?
Putting Neosporin on my hands after climbing for several hours, and snuggling with my honey while I play video games.
Mat Class Gone “Mad”
The first time I taught a group Pilates mat class, I felt like I was going to (expletive verb) gobble. I asked the (adj) frantic class, if anybody was new to Pilates and they had all been taking class for (number) 9 days. After I found out how long the (adj) quiet class had done (adj) busy Pilates, I had to throw my plan out the (adj) sweaty door! Their Hundred looked like (noun) belts gone wild, and their Teaser was (adj ending in ing) pulsing.
(exclamation!) Gadzooks! Someone (verb) snickered which made the class go wild. (body part plural) hairs were (verb ending in ing) circling like (animal) sloths everywhere. And I only had (number) 146 seconds to get the class to Seal. You could see the sweat through my (article of clothing) shorts. In the end, my (adj) moist class left feeling (adj ending in er) uglier, and I feel (positive emotion) happiness to be a Pilates instructor. Sign up now for my (exclamation!) Ba! class.
