Our Team

Certified Pilates Instructor

A certified instructor through The Whole Body Method, Dionna has been teaching and continuing her education since 2008.  With a background in dance and performing arts, she began practicing Pilates as rehabilitation for her own injuries and found the work to be life changing. 

Dedicated to authentic Pilates practice and attention to proper form and technique, she also believes a workout should be fun! Additional specialized work includes pre/post-natal care, surgery rehabilitation and weight-loss centered Pilates.

Certified GYROTONIC Instructor

Originally from Riga, Latvia, Alina is a professionally trained ballerina and now teaches ballet and is a certified GYROTONIC Instructor.

Certified Pilates Instructor

Julie has more than 16 years’ experience and expertise in ballet, modern and social dance, Pilates, yoga, and myo-fascia release. Her career began as a professional dancer in New York City after she earned a bachelor’s degree in fine arts. She performed regularly with White Road Dance Media, Experience Vocal Dance, and From The Desk of Sarah Seely. She also performed as the resident dancer in Michael Alan’s living art installation in Manhattan. While in New York, she began to understand the healing powers of movement through her opportunities as a performer and her work as a social dance and Pilates instructor.

Inspired to continue her education, Julie completed teacher training programs in Pilates and dance, studying under Pilates master trainers Lesley Powell, Shelley Studenberg, Teri Steele, Rebekah Rotstein, and Kuan Hui Chew. Her certifications include Pilates Mat with Steele Pilates, a 500-hour comprehensive Pilates with Balance Body University, Myo-fascia Release from Embody Practice Center, Reiki with master Jamie Wozny, and Social Dance with Start Dancing NYC. She also holds continuing education certificates in Body Brain Connect, which links brain science with movement, prenatal/post-partum Pilates, sports conditioning, osteoporosis, scoliosis, sciatica, S-I dysfunction, and multifidi dysfunction.

Always learning, Julie has had the privilege of taking classes and workshops under first generation Pilates instructors Mary Bowen and Lolita San-Miguel, as well as second-generation instructors Elizabeth Larkam and Wendy Le-Blanc Arbuckle. In addition to Pilates and dance, Julie has extensive experience and training in Anatomy, Barteneiff fundamentals, the Feldenkais method, and yoga. She uses her deep understanding of anatomy and vast knowledge of the human form to help her clients achieve their fitness goals.

Julie is passionate about facilitating an improved quality of life through movement. She spent several years as an instructor at Erika Bloom’s prestigious studio in Manhattan, has worked alongside physical therapists, with celebrities, professional dancers, and athletes. She has been a traveling instructor on the sets of Django Unchained, Scandal, and Confirmation. Julie is currently seeing clients in Los Angeles, California and abroad through her coaching series.

Certified Pilates and Yoga Instructor

Stott and Physicalmind Certified Pilates Instructor (Carola Trier Lineage)
Physio Rehab Assistant
Registered Yoga Teacher (200 hours)
Thai Yoga Massage Therapist (Level 1)

​Cicely Nelson is an experienced instructor and practitioner of Pilates and Yoga. She holds numerous certifications in Pilates and Yoga modalities as well as in Thai Massage; specializing in pre- and post-natal care, scoliosis, osteoporosis, general injury prevention and rehabilitation, and palliative care. Her approach runs the gamut from mindful and somatic to rigorous and athletic, depending on students’ needs and preferences, but alignment and structural and somatic integrity are always priorities. She has served on the faculty at the Pacific Northwest Ballet in Seattle (2010-2012), and has taught at Erika Bloom Pilates Plus in NYC, Turks and Caicos, and Los Angeles (2006-present) and at the Movement Studio and Envision Physiotherapy in Vancouver, BC, Canada (2012-2016). Her training in ballet, modern dance, flamenco, and classical music performance and pedagogy also informs her movement practices.

Certified Pilates Instructor

Dawn Saucier-Green is Certified Licensed Massage Therapist and Pilates instructor who started teaching in 1998 after moving back to Los Angeles from New York City. She has been working with Beverly Hills Posture since 2002. 

As an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, Dawn discovered Pilates while teaching at the former Angel City Gym–where she studied under the tutelage of Ivan Dahl.

Certified Pilates Instructor

Beth Pendleton is a certified PMA Pilates and Kundalini Yoga Instructor. She has been teaching since 2002.

Always fascinated by the way the body works and how people connect with their body, she has cultivated specialties in Restorative Exercise, pre-and post-natal Pilates, Thai Yoga Therapy, and Post Rehab Breast Cancer Exercise through the Pink Ribbon Program.
With her broad teaching knowledge, Beth can give a dynamic workout while at the same time modify sessions to help clients connect with and preserve the long-term health of their bodies.

Certified Yoga Therapist

Wendy Obstler, CYT, E-RYT, is a certified yoga therapist, experienced registered yoga teacher, prenatal yoga instructor, as well as the Certified Lead Teacher and Ambassador of Strong Yoga®4Women.  Since 2005, Wendy has worked with countless women struggling with fertility challenges and has witnessed over and again the powerful benefits of yoga on fertility. Having used the practice of yoga therapy to heal her own severe back injury, Wendy is inspired to share the transformational qualities of yoga with other individuals in chronic pain, healing from injury, post-operative rehab and as an awareness tool for injury prevention. 
Wendy is a proud member of both The International Association of Yoga Therapists and the Yoga Alliance, as well as the founder of Divine Spark Yoga, an alignment and breath-based approach to the artful practice of yoga.

Certified Pilates Instructor

Certified Pilates and Yoga Instructor, LMT, A.R.T (Active Release Technique), Reiki, DVRT (Dynamic Variable Resistance Training)

Certified Pilates Instructor

P.M.A. Certified Pilates Instruction, 2007, Pre and Post-natal Yoga training.

Certified Pilates and GYROTONIC® Instructor

Gina is certified on the GYROTONIC® expansion system pulley tower and Jump Stretch Board and on all Pilates apparatus. She has been teaching for over ten years and prides herself on being able to train all types of physical abilities.