Beth Bilal, Owner
My Story
I discovered Pilates in 2010 and knew right away that it was a discipline I would be practicing for the rest of my life. After four years of dedicated practice as a student of the method, I left a 13-year career in corporate communications and completed my comprehensive Pilates education and teacher training from ITT Pilates, a top certification program offered by A Body of Work in San Francisco.
I have personal experience as a collegiate athlete, as a distance runner, as a mom of young children and as someone who worked long hours in the corporate world, and I heavily draw on these experiences to design Pilates programs for clients’ different lifestyles. With an emphasis on injury prevention in my teaching, I enthusiastically work with each client to achieve his / her specific goals.
I’ve been a Pilates and movement teacher since 2014 and am a Pilates Method Alliance (PMA) Certified Teacher and certified Buff Bones® Instructor. Continuing my integrative movement education is so important to my practice, so I can continuously share new ideas, information, and techniques with clients. My practice is inspired by workshops with Madeline Black, Irene Dowd, Cara Reeser, and Rebekah Rotstein, as well as Madeline Black’s book, “Centered, Organizing the Body through Kinesiology, Movement Theory and Pilates Technique.” I also spent two years learning from my mentor and friend Odile Zelenak, a renowned expert in the healing arts and owner of In Body Studio in Petaluma.
I graduated from UCLA in 2000 with a B.A. in Sociology, where I was a member of the Women’s Soccer Team for four years.
