Owner, Lead Teacher, Associate Teacher Trainer

I love working with clients dealing with complex body stuff. My life experience of living with hypermobility and pain management greatly informs my approach to teaching. Sometimes you just need to meet the body where it is that day, you know? Few things give me as much joy as seeing a client who was in constant pain get to a place where they feel strong and body confident. I revel in the nitty-gritty of the basic and intermediate systems, and never feel the need to rush through to the end.

Rae is a queer, burlesque-performing, Pilates glamazon whose hairstyle is known to change a little too often. Her life revolved around shoe design and costuming until she suddenly collapsed, having dislocated her hips, SI, sacrum, tailbone, and lumbar spine all at once. That was when she learned she was hypermobile, just shy of an Ehlers Danlos diagnosis. After years of living with pain so severe she could barely walk, she found that Pilates was the key to healing her body and getting her life back. Rachael earned her Classical Pilates teacher certification with the goal of helping others who suffer from life-altering pain, especially those in her LGBTQIA+community, and other under-served communities that don’t have access to Pilates. No stranger to weight fluctuations, she is obsessed with spreading body acceptance in the fitness world. She may specialize in the careful training of chronic pain and hypermobility, but she knows exactly how and when to push you to the next level. One session is all it takes to see why her clients gave her the nickname “The Pilates Domme”.

Specialties

• Pilates for Hypermobility and EDS
• Pilates for Chronic Pain and Pain Management
• Pilates for Beginners
• Corrective Movement Training
• Bad puns and dad jokes