peter lakis:

A New Hampshire native and a San Francisco convert, Peter is the owner and director of dharmaspace pilates center and Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Pilates Method Alliance. He began his westward migration in 1992  when he attended the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he first encountered bodywork and holistic medicine. Following a severe lower lumbar injury, he became a student of Pilates on a lifelong path of teaching and learning. Peter has had the privilege of studying with a number of first and second-generation classical Pilates teachers including: Rachel Taylor Segel, Amy Taylor Alpers, Debora Robinson Kolwey, Jay Grimes, Kathi Ross-Nash, Peter Fiasca, Mejo Wiggin, and Dorothee Vandewalle. He received his first Pilates certificate in 2001 and completed his Masters at The Pilates Center in Boulder, Colorado in 2008. Peter is a caring teacher who strives to make personal connections with each of his students. He has worked as a physical therapy aide and has a penchant for working with injury rehabilitation and with amputees. Teaching group classes is what he loves best—which is good because he teaches many of them. Peter is an avid runner and home chef.

keegan tyler:

Keegan was born in Los Angeles and raised in Chicago—though she claims neither place as home. Her movement background includes professional figure skating, ballroom dance, ballet and other dance forms, and even kung fu. She received her Pilates certificate from the Physicalmind Institute in Beverly Hills, CA, in October 2002, and she has extensive experience working with spinal and hip injuries as well as with dancers. Keegan is continually attracted to Pilates, because of its logic and wholeness. She calls it an “owner’s manual” to the body (and we call her the “body whisperer.”) When she’s not teaching Pilates, Keegan spends her time singing show tunes as loudly, poorly, and frequently as possible..

honorine lalor:

Honorine hails from Gilroy, CA, the garlic capital of the world. She graduated in 2003 from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Anthropology. Honorine was a proud member of her high school’s marching band. She received her mat certificate from ITT Pilates in San Francisco in 2007 and her apparatus certificate in 2009. Through Pilates, Honorine can see the vast array of connections the body is able to make and the power the mind truly has over the physical being. When Honorine isn’t working on furthering her Pilates knowledge, you can find her knitting while watching Sci-Fi movies.

carolina (carro) czechowska:

Carro was born and raised in Stockholm, Sweden. From the age of ten until graduation she danced at the Royal Swedish Ballet School. Upon graduating she received a scholarship to study at the Boston Ballet School and six months later she moved to San Francisco to join Alonzo King’s Lines Ballet apprentice program.

 

She always had influences of Pilates in her daily dance practice, but the fist time she came across the apparatus was in Stockholm at Pilates Scandinavia. Carro was certified by Fredrik Fransson and Elisabet Davidsson in 2007. With a growing passion for Pilates she felt like it was time to explore the “authentic method”. She moved to New York City 2008 and earned a certificate at re:AB Pilates by Brooke Siler, where she later on became a senior teacher and Program director of re:AB Pilates certification program.

 

Carro has also practiced Yoga, Feldenkrais, Alexander technique, and Romette Floorbarre at professional dance workshops all around the world. In 2006 she was a member of Compania danca de Lisboa in Portugal. The following year she studied Sport psychology at the University of Stockholm, where she really saw the importance of the body-mind connection.

 

Carro believes in challenging sessions, kept in a safe and realistic frame. She encourages her students to achieve their goals; both inside and outside of the studio. She loves coaching in a positive spirit, and thrives for her clients to see and feel the results presented from the authentic Pilates method.

alicia doyle:

Alicia, a native Bostonian and long time New Yorker, has been a student of classical Pilates since 2002.  As a trained dancer for over a decade, Alicia came to Pilates with a plethora of issues, including tendonitis in her hip and residual pain from dislocating both her knees in 1998.  She found that practicing Pilates regularly not only dissolved her ailments but also made her stronger, leaner, and more flexible than ever before.

Alicia studied under master trainers Romana Kryzanowska and Sari Mejia-Santo at True Pilates New York (Dragos Gym) and received her Pilates certificate from Romana’s Pilates in 2008.  She completed over 800 hours of seminars, observation, practice, and both practical and written tests, and has since attended numerous continuing education workshops with inspiring teachers including Jerome Weinberg, Lolita San-Miguel, Mejo Wiggin, Brooke Siler, Michael Fritzke and Ton Voogt. She has worked with a diverse group of clients from a professional martial artist to a teenage pop singer, and she has helped clients with a wide range of conditions including pinched nerves, torn menisci, sciatica and Parkinson's.  After teaching Pilates successfully in Manhattan, Alicia relocated to San Francisco in 2009.  She is excited to bring her classical and proven approach to the west coast, where she hopes to continue improving her clients’ lives through the Pilates method.

greta schroeder:

Greta was born and raised in Grass Valley, CA. She graduated Summa Cum Laude from UC Irvine with a degree in Dance. Her movement background includes ballet, modern, jazz, African, and tap dance and is a certified Ashtanga Yoga instructor. She received her first Pilates certificate from Long Beach Dance Conditioning in Long Beach, CA, in 2002 and her second certificate from Power Pilates in New York, NY, in 2005. In addition to working with chronic lower back, knee and foot injuries, one of Greta’s strengths includes working with beginners to help make Pilates exercises accessible as well as challenging. She continues to dedicate herself to Pilates because of how it has powerfully affected change in both her body and mind, which she loves witnessing in and helping to effect in others. When she’s not on the foam roller, Greta can be found hiking, swimming in fresh water, or skipping in nature.