Blossom Leilani Crawford

Blossom has been practicing and teaching Pilates for over 15 years. Her introduction to the Pilates method was in 1993 through Master teacher Kathleen Stanford Grant while she was a dance student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Using Pilates, Blossom learned to heal and care for her back, thus easing her chronic back pain while at the same time maintaining a rigorous physical schedule.

From 1997 to 2007 Blossom was the teaching assistant to Mrs. Grant's Pilates mat class at Tisch. Inspired by Mrs. Grant's teaching, in addition to the benefits she was seeing in her body through her own Pilates practice, Blossom pursued a Pilates teaching certification through private study with Romana Kryzanowska at Drago's Gym in New York. Since then, she has been teaching at studios throughout New York City and around the country. Blossom believes that there is joy in movement and in taking time to care for one 's body. That is her goal for each of her students.

Blossom is the owner and director of Bridge Pilates in Brooklyn, New York. She also continues to teach mat classes at the Mark Morris Dance Center in downtown Brooklyn. As well, Blossom has been a concert dancer since the early 1990s, performing for several prominent choreographers in New York City.

Anna Kohulka

A native New Yorker, Anna Kohulka has recently returned to Brooklyn from Santa Fe, New Mexico. With years of Pilates teaching and training experience, Anna brings to Bridge Pilates a wide range of skills and interests. In 2004, Anna earned her full certification from master teacher Raymond Kurshals at Pilates Santa Fe, where she taught full time. She has continued to broaden her Pilates knowledge by training with teachers from various programs: The Pilates Center, Power Pilates, Michele Larson and Romana Kryzanowska.

In addition to her Pilates teaching and training, Anna is an avid runner and has competed in seven marathons, including the New York City, Seattle, San Diego and Reykjavik marathons.

Anna also has an M.S. in School Psychology, and an interest in pursuing further graduate studies in physical therapy. She feels that by continuing her own education in both Pilates and other health related sciences, she brings to the greater New York community a positive and reaffirming teaching experience for all levels and backgrounds. She offers to people a whole body approach, facilitating a better and clearer mind and healthy lifestyle.

Dylan Goodrich

Dylan Goodrich is a fully certified Pilates Instructor who studied at the Kane School of Core Integration under the founder, Kelly Kane, in New York City. Dylan was introduced to Pilates through her doctor as a way to heal her back and neck pain after a car accident in 1997. (She was in a car that was rear-ended by five other cars in a pile up accident!) With Pilates, she was able to rehabilitate her back, neck and shoulders while discovering that her posture was better than before the accident. Dylan feels this experience has made her sensitive to understanding clients working through limitations and pain.

Dylan's teaching in Pilates has focused on osteoporosis, scoliosis and postpartum Pilates. Dylan is co-creator of the postpartum guide "Get in Shape after Having a Baby." In addition, Dylan holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Sonoma State University and is a musician and actress.

Frances Darnell

Frances is a certified Pilates instructor from the Kane School of Core Integration in New York. She was first introduced to Pilates at Sarah Lawrence College where she was studying dance and nutrition. She found that Pilates helped her stay connected to her body in her travels abroad to Cuba and New Zealand. As an athlete and dancer she has found that this practice has made her a stronger and more articulate mover. She is inspired to motivate and teach her clients to live a healthy and balanced lifestyle.

Frances appreciates the strengthening of the Pilates method, and continues to study under Bob Liekens at Power Pilates to reinforce this in her practice and teaching. Her philosophy in teaching is to share the joy of moving. Her goals for her clients are to strengthen, mobilize, and increase flexibility. Her Pilates teaching has focused on fitness training, post-partum, and scoliosis. Frances continues to perform dance in New York, as well as participate in half-marathons.

Mariel Casey

Mariel has been an athlete all her life. When she was younger she was a competitive horse back rider as well as a gymnast. After working in an office for a few years and suffering from scoliosis she realized something had to change. She decided to leave the corporate world and become a Pilates teacher. She was introduced to Pilates by taking mat classes at a local studio in Brooklyn, and fell in love with the many positive changes it made to her body. From there, she continued on to apparatus work.

Mariel completed her comprehensive classical certification in mat and apparatus work at Power Pilates in New York City. Mariel is also certified through Julie Tupler's Diastatis Rehab, which allows her to work with prenatal and postnatal clients. Mariel continues to study Pilates with Blossom Leilani Crawford, and remains dedicated to furthering her knowledge of Pilates through workshops and daily practice.

Stephanie Macli

Fitness and health have always been a central focus in Stephanie's life. While acquiring a bachelors degree at Quinnipiac University she was introduced to Pilates and she instantly fell in love. She quickly recognized the changes in her body and the benefits to her health. Although she was an athlete all her life, Pilates was the only exercise that gave her the strength and stability she needed.

She continued to practice Pilates while she worked in the corporate world and realized she wanted to share her enthusiasm for Pilates with others and help them receive the same benefits. Stephanie became certified through Power Pilates in New York City under the leadership of Bob Liekens and Susan Moran-Perich and began teaching Pilates full time with the goal to help her clients feel more youthful and fit through the practice. She also continues to take classes and workshops to further her knowledge and enhance her teaching.

More recently Stephanie began to study health and wellness and became a certified Holistic Health and Wellness counselor through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and The American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP). As a health counselor Stephanie takes a holistic approach to working with her clients one on one to help them reach their individual health goals, looking at not just what they eat but going beyond that to look at their lifestyle as a whole. Stephanie's mission is to make a healthy lifestyle easy for everyone to understand and achieve.