I'm a New York City–based Pilates instructor and movement educator working with athletes, dancers, and anyone who believes that how you move matters as much as how hard you work.

My relationship with Pilates didn't start as love. I first tried it in high school as part of my dance training and hated it. A few years later, while studying dance at Marymount Manhattan College, the body standards and pressures of the professional dance world pushed me to start working out for the first time in my life. I got a front desk job at Equinox and started moving in ways I never had before. That's where I took a mat class taught by Katie Yip and something clicked. Pilates started to make sense of things my professors had been asking of me for years. My dancing got stronger. I became more in tune with my body. At the same time, a group fitness manager took me under her wing and mentored me into teaching HIIT. Within nine months I had my Pilates mat certification, my NCSF Personal Training Certification, and was teaching on the floor — one of the youngest instructors in the Equinox system. Movement had taught me to seek strength instead of fragility. To take up space instead of shrink.

I graduated from Marymount Manhattan with a BFA in Dance magna cum laude in 2020. When Covid shifted everything, I turned toward teaching more fully and completed a 450-hour Classical Pilates certification through the Equinox Pilates Teacher Institute, directed by Carrie Samper. My continuing education spans scoliosis, body-inclusive practices, and pre- and post-natal care. I've taught barre, HIIT, strength, boxing, and dance cardio, and I train in kettlebells, bouldering, pole, and kickboxing. I'm also still an active dancer in New York City. All of it informs how I see the body. None of it is incidental.

My personal motto is strength, defense, and movement, drawn from the meanings of Norse runes tattooed on my wrist that spell my name. Build something that protects you, and keep it in motion.

Today I'm still teaching at Equinox, the place where it all began, and working out of Paradigm Studios NYC under Katie Yip, the teacher who started it all. Full circle feels like an understatement.