Meet Your Instructors
Get to know the instructors who make our studio feel like home. Each member of our team brings unique experience, care, and passion to their teaching so you can feel supported, challenged, and confident every time you step into class.
Irina Valkov
Pilates Instructor Irina Valkov is a Pilates instructor with over 14 years of experience in mindful movement. With a background in gymnastics and martial arts, she brings a strong focus on alignment, strength, and control. Trained extensively in Reformer Pilates, Irina leads sessions that are both challenging and restorative, emphasizing precision, breath, and safe progression helping clients feel stronger, aligned, and energized after every session.
Mia Taheri
Pilates Instructor Mia Taheri is a Comprehensive Pilates Instructor with a supportive, empowering approach. After years of surgeries and chronic hip pain, she discovered Pilates as a transformative practice that helped her rebuild strength and confidence. Mia emphasizes the mind–body connection and is especially passionate about supporting clients recovering from injury, creating a safe, welcoming space where everyone feels strong and empowered.
Cristina Popescu
Stretch InstructorCristina is a stretching therapist whose journey began as a national junior champion heptathlete and hurdler before a serious knee injury shifted her path. Through rehabilitation, she transformed her experience into a career in recovery, now working with post-surgical clients, chronic pain patients, and athletes. Her approach combines targeted stretching with dry sauna therapy to enhance circulation, improve mobility, and support safe, effective recovery.
Pamela Blackstone
Soundbath Instructor Dr. Elizabeth Blackstone (aka Pamela) has been immersed in the healing arts since 1996, blending yoga, meditation, sound healing, Reiki, and energy work into deeply transformative mind–body–spirit experiences. Known for her intuitive and energetic approach, she supports healing on both physical and energetic levels, creating spaces for profound relaxation and renewal. In addition to her wellness practice, she is a professional choral conductor and music instructor.
Tamara Gross
Yoga InstructorTamara Gross “Yoga has been part of my life for over 17 years, through the busy seasons of motherhood. My path to teaching began while practicing yin yoga during recovery from low back issues. What started as a desire to deepen my own practice led to yin teacher training, and eventually a 200-hour power training, and a love for sharing yoga with others. I hope each class offers space to connect inward, find ease in the body, and experience the quiet joy of being.”