MEET KELLY
Confessions of a Radio City Rockette

It is important to me that I make a positive, healing, encouraging and empowering impact on the world. My purpose is being a teacher and facilitator. I believe movement is very healing, physically: in addition to leg braces, dance classes helped me to overcome the physical challenge of being born very pigeon toed. I wound up having a nearly twenty year professional musical theatre and dance career; the highlight of which was being a Rockette in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular in Mexico City the first year the show went international. 

Once it was time to start a family, I retired from my dance/theatre career and became certified as a Pilates trainer. I've found my twenty year Pilates career to be very fulfilling. I love being of service to others: training them in proper posture, alignment, body mechanics and Pilates exercises has allowed me to facilitate people healing from chronic pain and achieve their fitness goals.

​I also believe movement is healing emotionally/mentally: the combination of working with my Pilates students and returning to dancing played a significant role in my healing from the depression, anxiety and panic attacks I suffered as a result of divorce. Teaching and facilitating are about learning, growing and connecting: assisting others’ learning and growing allows me to be of service.  I’ve been told I am easy to be around, have a delightful sense of humor and make exercise enjoyable.
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My training never ends
Continuing education is one of the foundations of my business. Here are few of the courses I’ve completed:
  • Persistent Pain Pilates Educator Certification: Persistent Pain Pilates Educators guide clients through a journey of relief and joy. Those holding the title of PPPE Certificant invested over 11.5 hours in rigorous studies, including a comprehensive case study. This expertise artfully integrates Pain Science Education and Nervous System Work, anchored in the transformative PolyVagal Theory. The approach offers a biosocial-behavioral pathway to well-being and can be seamlessly integrated into other therapies.
  • Pilates Masters Program- curriculum design, motivational science, nervous system nurturing techniques
  • Building the Ultimate Back with Dr. Stuart McGill, professor of Spine Biomechanics at University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  
  • Pilates Intensive with Rebecca Leone which covered brain science, mind/body connection, neuromuscular firing patterns, alignment techniques, spine safety, and proprioceptive neuromuscular facilitation stretching.
  • Osteoporosis Management: Pilates-Evolved Techniques with Sherri Betz, PT
  • Cadaver Anatomy at Bastyr University
  • Workshops with Master Teachers: Kathy Corey, Rael Isacowitz, Michele Larsson and Yamuna Zake​In addition, I’ve attended the Peak Pilates Empowerment Conference, Pilates Method Alliance Conference, the Inner IDEA conference, and the Body Mind Spirit Expo.​
​Giving back
I’m honored to be a volunteer teacher at Cancer Support Community Pasadena, a non-profit organization providing free support, cancer education and hope. I teach Pilates to  people with cancer and their caregivers.  I am also honored to be a volunteer teacher at Door of Hope, a Christian non-profit organization that can shelter any kind of  homeless family together in their own private unit

People will talk…
Visit my Testimonials page to read what my clients have to say or visit my Google & Yelp! pages for recent reviews.
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