The Trainers
Cassidy Moore/ Owner loves teaching clients who are devoted and inspired to feel good in their bodies. She works best with clients who want to train methodically, deeply and are open to change. She focuses on muscular strength, balance and integrity of the body. Your session with her will require focus, patience, exploration and a conscience effort. When you train with Cassidy you will develop deep and subtle body awareness skills and learn the nuances of your muscular habits, essential to change the chronic movement patterns ingrained in your body.
She is a hands on instructor always providing lots of positive, compassionate and encouraging feedback as her clients work hard to overcome their habitual muscular patterns. Even though the sessions are challenging Cassidy and her clients usually find moments of true laughter.
One of her greatest joys is when her clients take the knowledge of the sessions into their everyday lives, helping them to continue a physically active life with a feeling of youth in their body. Strength, mobility and awareness can help to prevent chronic pain and surgery. People living a long and healthy life in their bodies while working and playing is why Cassidy teaches Pilates.
Cassidy is dedicated to her profession and has been advancing her education since being certified in Body Contrology in 1999. She loves the fact that she can continue to learn and she whole heartedly believes in ongoing education. Most recently she has studied with Lizz Roman, master therapeutic Pilates instructor and Thomas Myers, director of Anatomy Trains.
Trusha Apolinario enjoys working with clients who are focused on increasing the strength, functionality and endurance of their bodies. She is passionate about helping her clients create strong, centered, powerful bodies that thrive within the busyness and complexity of modern life.
Trusha teaches a meditative, mindful and challenging style of Pilates that emphasizes breath work, core strength and mind-body connection. Trusha also applies the time honored benefits of yoga into her Pilates sessions - creating an innovative style that not only helps to tone and shape the body but also relaxes and calms the mind. Trusha works with a diverse group of clients and addresses each person's specific needs and issues through the fundamental and dynamic principles of Pilates.
A long time practitioner of yoga, Trusha discovered Pilates at her local yoga studio in San Diego in 2002. She was intrigued and inspired by the strength, flexibility and functionality that Pilates created in her own body, and, in 2003, Trusha completed an in-depth 500 hour training and internship at Pilates of La Jolla. She continues her ongoing Pilates education and enjoys taking workshops all over the Bay Area.
Trusha is a California native and has lived in San Francisco since 1998. She attended Univeristy of San Francisco and earned her B.A. in English/Creative Writing. Besides teaching Pilates, Trusha is also a freelance writer and meditation teacher. During her free time, Trusha loves to travel, try new and exciting restaurants, study Buddhism, practice photography and take her adorable cattle dog Frankie to the beach.
Jenice Acosta (Student Trainer) , a former gymnast, studied dance and performed for many years in San Francisco and Arizona. Her Pilates journey began in 2002 at Turning Point Studios with Nora St. John, focusing on rehabilitation. She continued her studies at Mercury Fitness with Lara Hudson, Dharmaspace with Peter Lakis, and Re:ab Pilates (NY) with Cary Regan, Emma Riveria and Lynn Balliette. Jenice also worked as a Physical Therapy Aide under the supervision of Gina Giammanco at Red Hawk PT. She completed her pre-med courses intending to apply to a physical therapy graduate program including anatomy, human physiology, anatomical kinesiology and biomechanics at SF State University. She continues her study of the moving body with the Anatomy Trains theory of myofascial meridians. Jenice uses Pilates as a means to heal the body through movement.
Jenice will assess your posture with a full body reading identifying which muscle groups that need to be lengthened or strengthened to bring the body back into alignment. Whether through stretching and nurturing or a more challenging full body cardiovascular workout, she uses the classical Pilates method to provide a framework of repetition, consistency, with a huge dose of positive encouragement--all key factors to deliver and maintain change in the body. Jenice is inspired by the process of transformation both in the body and mind, and will design a unique solution for each individual, unlocking their full potential and boosting their confidence.
She is at her best with clients who are open to pushing themselves into new and unfamiliar places and who strive to understand the subtle nuances of change--that it takes time to rewire old patterns into new patterns. Her motto is eat, drink, Pilates, and be merry.