About Us
A health and fitness enterprise based on Pilates Principals*, and the Pilates Movement Principals** combined with experiences in Dance training, Physical Theory Aide employment, a former Personal Fitness Trainer, a Mindful Meditation practitioner, as well as working as a Model for Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture artwork.
The first time hearing about Pilates was while working as a Physical Therapy Aide in the early 1990’s. Working at the California Pacific Orthopedic and Sports Medicine facility, one of the doctors shared a copy of a magazine that had an article about Pilates and the St. Francis Dance and Sports Medicine Clinic. It was there where I met Elizabeth Larkam, a Balanced Body Pilates education faculty member. Ms Larkam told me about other Pilates studios mentioning Madeline Black’s San Francisco studio and I began to take classes there.
Continuing to work as a PT Aide at several clinics, over the years, I began taking Physical Therapy prerequisites classes, Anatomy, Biology, etc. In 2000, I was a speaker at the Performing Art Medicine Association’s 18th Symposium, Medical Problems of Musicians and Dancers, in Aspen Colorado. There two Physical Therapists offered a Pilates demonstration workshop as a rehabilitation tool, and I participated.
When the Easter Seals physical health facility closed in 2001, my PT Aide positions ended. But, in 2005 I studied and became a Personal Fitness Trainer with the International Sports Sciences Association (ISSA), and worked at Pinnacle Fitness in San Francisco as a Personal Fitness Trainer. Having surgery for cancer put an end to my Personal Fitness career later in 2005. Moving forward, in 2007 I studied Structural Kinesiology at Cal State East Bay. In 2009, I went on to study Pilates exercises at Synergy Fitness Pilates Studio, where I began taking on Pilates clients.
Since 2010 I have been working at two (2) June Kamerling studios. First at El Cerrito Fitness before the Covid Pandemic, then at her home studio in the East Richmond hills after the Covid shut down.
During the years between 2014 and 2024 I participated in, and received Certificates of completion for Pilates Mat, Reformer 1 and Movement Principles, Trapeze Table, Barrel, and Chair. On March 7, 2025 I tested and received my Comprehensive Pilates Instructor certificate from Balanced Body.
