pilates instructors

Audreyanne Delgado is a PMA certified Pilates instructor, a professional dancer and dance instructor. She first became involved with the Pilates method as a teenager after experiencing a knee injury. At that time she worked with Brent Anderson PhD, PT, OCS, who helped her use the Pilates method to successfully rehabilitate her knee. She became convinced that Pilates was the best way to stay healthy, fit and strong. Audreyanne began instructing Pilates in 1999 in Sacramento under the guidance of a physical therapist. This began her interest and emphasis in helping others with their rehabilitation through the use of the Pilates method. She then established herself as a Pilates instructor in the Bay Area in 2001 where she continually participates in continuing her Pilates education and training. Audreyanne regularly participates in continuing education courses and is currently a student perusing her bachelor’s degree in microbiology. With her many years of experience as an instructor and her strengths of patience, communication, observation, and assessment, Audreyanne has successfully improved the quality of life for those that have worked with her.

Karen Goldstein was first introduced to Pilates when only 18 years old after developing knee problems while studying ballet in NYC. She was sent to the original Pilates studio run by Romana Kryzanowska, a direct disciple of Joseph Pilates. After returning home to the Bay Area, she continued her ballet training with, as her teacher noticed, "much better alignment". Pilates was not as prominent on the west coast for about 10 years, but later, when Karen continued to have alignment and pain issues from dancing, Pilates had luckily become more available, and so she resumed her Pilates training under the guidance of Jennifer Stacey in San Francisco. She completed her Teacher Training Certification under Ellie Herman and has also studied extensively with Lizz Roman learning rehabilitation techniques based on the principals of Janda. Karen likes to teach Pilates with an emphasis on form and how it applies to functional life movement. She likes to educate her students to have more freedom in movement, strength, and to learn ways to help themselves when their body/pain issues arise so that they can get along with more ease in their everyday lives.

Email: karengoldstein@noxcusesfitness.com

Michelle , a Boston area native, has recently relocated here after four years in the Caribbean where she had the opportunity to pursue her passion….fitness.  She currently continues her studies of Pilates through Balanced Body University.  Michelle has twenty years management experience in the luxury hospitality market; a career focused on people, service and quality training. She believes that health and fitness are a lifestyle choice.  She has personally proven that the changes you envision for your mind, spirit and body are achievable with dedication to that choice; even for those in a high paced lifestyle.

Stephanie Herman, a former Prima Ballerina for George Balanchine’s dance companies in Zurich and Geneva, Stephanie spent her life in ballet’s most rarified circles, training from the age of 12, graduating from School of American Ballet when she was 19 and performing with the greatest dancers and choreographers of the twentieth century including Mikhail Baryshnikov, Rudolph Nureyev, George Balanchine Martha Graham, and Alvin Ailey. Stephanie's fitness method was born from efforts to heal herself. After a debilitating back and knee injury which left her unable to sit or walk for a year, and the failure of doctors to heal her, Stephanie drew upon her training and educated herself about body mechanics and kinetics. Using a program she designed, Stephanie surprised her doctors with a quick and complete recovery that left her stronger than before. During that time, Ms. Herman delved deeply into the philosophy and science of physical expression, psychology and rehabilitation, and working directly with Carola Trier the first disciple of Joseph Pilates, and Julio Horvath himself, the creator of the Gyrotonic Expansion System. Certified by the American College of Sports Medicine (ASCM), Pilates. Ms. Herman is fully versed in the physiology of human musculature. This therapeutic element is present in every workout she creates. After founding and directing her DanceAerobics studio in New York for many years, Ms. Herman founded and operates "Stephanie Herman's Fitness and Pilates" the San Francisco Bay Area. Stephanie Herman is also the award winning producer and host of the infamous, "The Stephanie Herman Show" a tv show that reaches 1 million homes in the Bay area. Ms. Herman has also been featured on other talk shows and in national and international publications for her unique and effective dance fitness programs.

Email: stephanieherman@noxcusesfitness.com