Meet our team
Learn with compassionate movement educators dedicated to self-improvement, continuous learning, and helping you have more confidence and energy to do the things that matter in your life.
Our focus is an integrated, holistic approach to fitness, teaching exercise methods based on science and rooted in what we consider the world’s leading methods: Pilates and the GYROTONIC® Method. They will expand your understanding of your body in a way you can feel from your first session.
Sonia Lopez
Co-founder
A former professional ballroom competitor and teacher, Sonia came to the Pilates and GYROTONIC® Methods in 1994 and has taught them for more than 25 years. She is a certified Pilates trainer through Marie-José Blom of Long Beach Dance Conditioning and a certified GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® trainer, teaching both private sessions and our MOVE group equipment classes. Her instruction is detailed, gentle, and deeply knowledgeable, and she has guided students through scoliosis, back pain, frozen shoulder, knee issues, and pre- and post-natal recovery.
Christopher Lopez
Co-founder
Chris has taught Pilates and the GYROTONIC® Method for more than 24 years, certified as a GYROTONIC® trainer in 2000 and trained in Pilates with Elizabeth Larkam. He brings a patient, precise approach to private training, working with hundreds of adults, many of them 40 and over, to ease back pain, improve posture and mobility, and rebuild confidence through strength and control. Outside the studio he is usually on his bike or his skateboard.