Established in 2002, Core Pilates NYC ranks amongst New York City’s best and most recognized studio names for classical Pilates apparatus sessions, group classes, and certifications offered worldwide.

LEADERSHIP Team

Michelle Fama

Founder & Creative Director

Candid, Empowering, Unexpected, Insightful

Prefers Mat over Reformer any day but loves a good fusion (Reformer Barre please!) When she’s not diving into content and digital strategy for Core and consulting for start ups, she’s pounding the pavement of a vintage flea market (with her side kick pup Jack) looking for killer interior finds, baking cookies or meatballs, researching the Cali cannabis industry for her next project, and most likely has paint in her hair from another DIY in her Venice Beach bungalow. She’s also a super woman at binge watching, and gets to the desert or on a plane whenever she can.

Isadora Roman

Studio Manager, Instructor

Gresa Dardani

Director of Education, Instructor
Hailing from London, Gresa is the face of Core - as our fill-in manager, our new Director of Education and instructor - all in one amazing package. She got stuck on that inescapable energy that is so uniquely Pilates and needed that fix on the daily in her body but also passing that on in her teaching. When she's not mixing for her infamous cakes, she's blending her favorites together in her teaching - props and Mat! Like a true European, she makes her weekends all about family, friends and food.
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Faculty

Jennifer Lancaster

Faculty, Guest Instructor

Technical, detailed, fun, creative and encouraging.

For that versatile and fun workout she looks nowhere else than our 30/30 class. When not on the Tower (her favorite apparatus) she is inspiring dance students with choreography and traveling with her guitar playing husband. She’s also looking to get her hands really dirty and take up gardening very soon!
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Carrie Campbell

CPNYC Lead Teacher Trainer

Classical yet progressive, precise

With over 20 years of teaching and educating, there isn’t anything this seasoned pro can’t do! Our teacher of teachers leads workshops nationwide and when she’s not on the mat or teaching her fav Core Tower classes, she’s hiking or toting her kids (with Swell bottle and hand packed lunch in hand!) to the soccer field or dance studio
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Amanda Vandeventer

Senior Instructor, Faculty

Nurturing, Detail Oriented, Fun

She’s our powerhouse in the family. Ask her what she did today and it will involve at least 3 hours of physical fitness. Every. Single. Day she runs and does Pilates. No joke. Always and forever with the Pilates Chair and her fav class is the combo challenge the 20/20/20 delivers. Old movies, the Sunday crossword puzzle, baking and homemade pasta rule her weekends as does seeing her Italian family nearby. You won’t find a more passionate animal lover – she wanted to be a vet and open an animal shelter and save all the puppies and chinchillas of the world.
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Gresa Dardani

Director of Education, Instructor
Hailing from London, Gresa is the face of Core - as our fill-in manager, our new Director of Education and instructor - all in one amazing package. She got stuck on that inescapable energy that is so uniquely Pilates and needed that fix on the daily in her body but also passing that on in her teaching. When she's not mixing for her infamous cakes, she's blending her favorites together in her teaching - props and Mat! Like a true European, she makes her weekends all about family, friends and food.
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Sarah Ruback

Adjunct Faculty, Anatomy programs

Ed.D., MFA, BFA, ACE, PMA-CPT, TCI, YMHFA, CPR, & MRS

But we know her as Sarah! She was an integral part of the creation and development of Core's teacher training program serving as it's Director for over 14 years. We are thrilled that she continues to inspire our students course after course with her leadership in Anatomy and CPR education.

Nikki Hung

Faculty, Instructor

Lighthearted, Precise, Clear, Challenging

Variety is the spice – as they say. Nikki likes her workout spicy preferring the classes that give her all apparatus; 30/30 and our 20/20/20. If she had her way we would incorporate Hip Hop Dance cardio to our offerings! Eating baked goods (not baking them), black cats (especially her vampire kitty Lumpy), and strange museums are part of what makes her tick — Morbid Anatomy Museum anyone (she used to be a docent there).
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Sky Spallone

Faculty, Instructor

Nurturing, Informative with an attention to detail

This guitar playing, cake decorating, yogi, baby delivering (she's a Doula) and Evolutionary Astrologer has been a force at the Core studio for over a decade. If you have the privilege of experiencing her energy on and off the Reformer then you know that an hour with Sky is something uniquely special.

The Team

Dan Weltner

Senior Instructor, Online

Spontaneous, Dynamic, Humorous :))

Dan has a knack. A knack for making your core hurt not just from his favorite Core workout, the Reformer Barre, but from making you laugh. His teaching won’t rip you apart but will pull you together in the best way possible.

Have a sweet tooth? Dan’s baked goods (cookies, cakes, and irresistible lemon bars) are to die for from his baking business. Oh and he’s a published author!
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Gresa Dardani

Instructor
Hailing from London, Gresa is the face of Core - as our fill-in manager, our new Director of Education and instructor - all in one amazing package. She got stuck on that inescapable energy that is so uniquely Pilates and needed that fix on the daily in her body but also passing that on in her teaching. When she's not mixing for her infamous cakes, she's blending her favorites together in her teaching - props and Mat!
Book a class with Gresa

Michelle Bradshaw

Instructor

Nikki Hung

Instructor, CPNYC Faculty

Lighthearted, Precise, Clear, Challenging

Variety is the spice – as they say. Nikki likes her workout spicy preferring the classes that give her all apparatus; 30/30 and our 20/20/20. If she had her way we would incorporate Hip Hop Dance cardio to our offerings! Eating baked goods (not baking them), black cats (especially her vampire kitty Lumpy), and strange museums are part of what makes her tick — Morbid Anatomy Museum anyone (she used to be a docent there).
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Lynnette Galbier

Instructor, Online

Hao Xie

Instructor

Intuitive, Methodical and Challenging

Haojun Xie is well-known for dancing en pointe and keeping his students on their toes with his structured, classical approach to apparatus instruction. He began ballet training in Beijing at the age of 10 and has since toured the world as a professional ballet dancer. Hao brings an innate awareness of movement to each of his classes, giving a rigorous sequence of movement with attentive cues and corrections for his students. Hao lives in Greenpoint and loves to cook, travel, and dance to all kinds of music.
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Sky Spallone

Instructor, Faculty

Nurturing, Informative with an attention to detail

This guitar playing, cake decorating, yogi, baby delivering (she's a Doula) and Evolutionary Astrologer has been a force at the Core studio for over a decade. If you have the privilege of experiencing her energy on and off the Reformer then you know that an hour with Sky is something uniquely special.

Bianca Soto

Instructor

Encouraging, Nurturing, Fun

Our native New Yorker has her grandma to thank for discovering Pilates. At Core, her belief that Pilates is for everybody and EVERY BODY has seen her rise in the ranks as a client fav! Catch her Tower class to really feel her power and if you don't bump into her on the street walking her dog you might find her on a beach or at home doing what she loves - cooking, baking and watching movies!

Ji Lee

Instructor

Enthusiastic, Motivating, and Challenging

There is so much we love about Ji - but the fact that she never leaves home without wearing glitter eyeliner ranks tops! She's not all sparkles... when she's not delivering one of her, as client's say, "challenging" classes she's either in her fav 30/30 class here at Core, cuddling her fur baby, or in the air... she's an aerial artist!

Anastasia Vershinina

Instructor

Energetic, Engaged, Fun

A self-proclaimed reformer lover who, when not hitting the runway for fashion houses, she hits her 'happy place' here at the Core studio to teach 1:1 sessions and killer classical classes.
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Lindsey Leonard

Instructor

Energetic, Engaged, Fun

She loves her some Reformer but in a close tie is Tower for her all time favs to teach and to take! Her sweetness is rivaled only by her "killer creative classes," as one client noted. When not teaching at the studio you can find her knitting, taking long walks in the park and watching live performances of any kind!
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Nadia Duncan

Instructor

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Alma Azaryahu

Instructor

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Anna Germon

Instructor
As an athlete, Anna never feels as strong both physically and mentally, as when she's doing Pilates. When she's not on the soccer field, traveling, or turning heads while on a her fav Citibike and singing lyrics to almost any song from memory, she's running, hiking and diving deep into her love of teaching Mat and specializing in Pre/Postnatal training and Pilates for athletes.
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Hannah Dillenbeck

Instructor

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Rachel Olivia Berkman

Instructor

Tela Anderson

Instructor

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Digital Team

Eun-Young Kim

Pre/Postnatal Specialty Instructor

Nurturing, Informative with an attention to detail

It all started 12+ years ago with the birth of my first kid! Crossing paths with my postnatal Pilates instructor and seeing what Pilates can do for my own body after birth (and before the subsequent 2 kids!) was a game changer. Working with this population continues to hold a dear place in my teaching – I have laughed and cried with many clients throughout their motherhood journey!
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Juliana Beckel

Instructor

Thoughtful, Creative, Detailed

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Alexandra Abrams

Instructor

Motivating, Charismatic, Bubbly and Attentive

If you can combine fresh guac, a basket full of kittens within one fab Tower class you would have just a few of her favorite things! When she’s not indulging in dance she’s with her new hubby on the tennis court.
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