Shelly Power

Shelly Power teaches nationally and internationally for Polestar Pilates, and administers exams, conducts Pilates workshops and Polestar Educator training worldwide. She is a frequent presenter at international fitness and Pilates conferences. In her role as Curriculum Director, Shelly brings a unique and fresh approach to the work of Joseph Pilates.

• Shelly danced professionally for 12 years
• Received her BS degree in Dance from California State University, Sacramento, where she served on the faculty from 1992-1998.
• Shelly is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher and is involved with various committees at the PMA.

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Katrina Hawley

Katrina is from Wyoming where the untamed spirit of the West and majestic natural beauty open your mind and invigorate your senses to release your own inner freedom and sense of adventure. It's also where she taught her first class. The students were stuffed animals. When Katrina moved to the Five College area, she brought with her this sense of freedom and adventure, along with her compulsion to teach. When she discovered Laban Movement Analysis, it gave her the language she needed to understand movement at a deeper level and a way to communicate with those who would become teachers themselves.

Katrina's superpowers are movement, teaching, and collaboration. She has collaborated with other professionals to teach how movement integrates with healing, communication, self-esteem, and empowerment. Katrina believes that relationships come first, business comes second, and play is the best!

• Katrina is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher by the Pilates Method Alliance,
• A graduate of the Polestar Pilates Comprehensive Teacher Training
• Polestar Educator.
• Studied Somatic Movement approaches under Janis Pforsich, Aliza Shapiro, Charlotte Wile, Irene Dowd and Martha Eddy.
• Board of Directors for the International Somatic Movement Education & Therapy Association (ISMETA) from 2005-2010
• Teaches Laban Movement Analysis, Issues in Pedagogy, Kinesiology and Pilates at the University of Hartford’s Hartt School in the Dance Division.
•  Co-director of HawleyMartin Dance (2001-2006) and she holds her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Temple University.

Karyn Staples

Karyn Staples is a Nationally Certified Pilates Teacher and a Physical Therapist with over 20 years of clinical and teaching experience. Driven by her passion for creating an environment focused on wellness and optimal health, Karyn founded ProHealth Physical Therapy and Pilates Studio (Peachtree City, Georgia) in 2005. Her extensive education, knowledge, experience in the field has forged the path for her personal growth and development along with educating and mentoring other practitioners. Karyn’s unique ability to combine interesting thought provoking lectures with practical demonstrations enables the participant to effectively integrate foundational concepts into their daily work.

Karyn discovered Pilates while attending the University of Evansville (Evansville, IN) after reading Brooke Siler’s book, The Pilates Body, as she was seeking change in her exercise routine. The further she delved into the work the greater connection she saw with her physical therapy profession. While attending Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions for her PhD work in Orthopedics and Sports Science, she completed her comprehensive Pilates teacher training through Polestar® Pilates Education. This credential allowed her to complete her dissertation in April 2011 utilizing Pilates (The Effect of Standing Pilates on the Aging Female Population).

Her Pilates background continues to be multi-lineage. She has been a presenter at;

• The Pilates Method Alliance​
• Pilates on Tour (Balanced Body)​
• Physical Therapy Association of Georgia​
• Emory University Physical Therapy Department​
• Georgia State University Physical Therapy Department
• The University of Evansville Physical Therapy Department.

She also serves as a clinical mentor to physical therapy students, orthopedic physical therapy residents, and movement practitioners. As a mother of two children (13 and 11), she continues to promote a healthy lifestyle to our next generation with programming at her office, small research projects, and community outreach.

Kate Strozak, BA, LMT, NCP

Kate has been teaching within the movement industry since the early 2000’s to clients of a wide variety of ages, conditions, and goals. She is known for delivering thoughtful and creative sessions in a client focused manner utilizing a unique blend of Pilates, the Oov, Runity, Myofascial Release, and her education in neuroscience from her in-progress masters degree from King’s College in London.

Her sessions emphasize restoring movement efficiency and improving everyday as well as athletic function. Delivering a positive movement experience with functional applications, Kate empowers her clients to prioritize and revel in their health and wellness.