Michelle is a highly experienced teacher, having been in the Pilates community from New York to Los Angeles, to a few years in New Orleans and Atlanta and now back in Los Angeles. Her passion for Pilates began while she was in acting school in New York. She practiced yoga regularly and was heavily involved in mind/body healing through breath work, and it was then she suffered a terrible back injury and was healed through Pilates. In Pilates, she found a way that incorporated everything she believed in about physical and emotional health and she couldn't get enough of it.
Shortly after that, she began immersing herself in Pilates, learning Classical Pilates in New York at the studio that Romana Kryzanowska, the oldest living protege of Joseph Pilates, was based at. Romana had actually studied with Joseph Pilates himself and Michelle felt lucky to be there. Everything she learned there became the basis of her teaching and it was during this time that she cultivated her in-depth knowledge of Pilates. She then combined that with continued education, which cemented her Pilates expertise.
Michelle has taught Pilates in Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans and Atlanta, owning her own business while also working at some of the top Pilates studios in Beverly Hills and Los Angeles, as well as with rehab clients for physical therapists and chiropractors.
She has worked with women and men of all ages, helping many people along the way. Michelle is proud to say that many of her clients have experienced great changes in their body rather quickly while working with her. Whether it be losing inches, healing back, neck or hip problems, or strengthening a weak core, her focus and dedication to her client’s goals provide results in a short period of time.