Our Team

LizAnne Roman Roberts

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An easy-going and caring instructor, LizAnne has been a student of movement since starting ballet at age four. While dancing professionally with Tulsa Ballet in her hometown, she sustained a foot injury that led her to Pilates. LizAnne found Pilates' ability to provide freedom and strength in movement inspiring and empowering. In 2007, LizAnne moved to the Bay Area to pursue a freelance dance career, where she also obtained her STOTT PILATES® certification. Celebrating with her clients as they move towards healthier and more pain-free living is one of her life's joys.

Karla Quintero

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Karla is a Pilates instructor and dance artist whose work emphasizes sensing, awareness, and informed movement choice. Drawn to Pilates as a non-depleting form of cross-training, she supports clients in retraining unhelpful patterns and building strength and ease over time. She trained with Caitlin Kolb and Tingzin Ellis at Pilates Done Differently, with additional education through Movement Science Made Simple, along with many years of Feldenkrais and other somatic practice.

Michelle Danna

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Michelle’s Pilates practice spans over 16 years teaching folks from every decade of life. She attributes her consistent practice of Pilates with successfully rehabbing a knee and shoulder injury and empowering her 35+ years of dance training and performance. Her personal practice and the many transformative experiences of her clients confirms that Pilates works and movement can be medicine. 

Her class vibe is focused and inclusive, every session is designed to be accessible for everybody, and you’ll leave feeling challenged, empowered, uplifted and strong. She describes it as “Offering movement to find ground as the world shakes.”

Quinn Diordiev

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Quinn is a Pilates instructor and dance artist who uses Pilates as a vital cross-training tool to support a life of high-level athletic movement. Having studied at UC Davis, she is currently completing her comprehensive Pilates certification through Balanced Body. Quinn’s teaching is grounded in her background in Countertechnique and influenced by the somatic approach of Sofia Engleman (Queer Body Pilates). In her sessions, Quinn specializes in refining clients’ body awareness, sensitivity, and proprioception to facilitate sustainable, pain-free movement.

Olivia Eng

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Throughout 4 major surgeries to address a congenital spine condition, Olivia studied Pilates intensively as a means to heal, rebuild, and reconnect from the inside out. She is extremely grateful for and can attest to the healing benefits of Pilates! Olivia holds a comprehensive certification through STOTT Pilates, has been teaching since 2013, and has continued to learn a multitude of healing modalities including fascial health and neurokinetic principles which she incorporates into her sessions. Olivia has experience and compassion for working with all ages and levels.  She specializes in rehabilitation for those with injuries, especially with the spine and Psoas.

Amanda Lu

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Amanda first encountered Pilates as a student in 2008 and loved it, finding its focus on mind-body awareness especially beneficial. She has been taking classes at Corpo Kinetic since 2023, and completed her STOTT Pilates mat instructor training through Mindful Movement Collective in February 2025. Her goals include helping clients in learning to listen to their bodies, and to introduce gentle movement into areas of the body that may normally get neglected. Outside of Pilates, Amanda enjoys hiking, bouldering, reading, and spending time with her cat.

Kaleen Canevari

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Kaleen discovered Pilates while working as a mechanical engineer designing Pilates equipment. After years of chronic knee pain from two knee surgeries, Pilates became the missing piece that gave her strength, control, and confidence in her body again. For the last twelve years she has been sharing that same life-changing practice with her students through classes that are deliberate and mindful, challenging, and deeply focused on body awareness.

Gabby Kashani

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Gabby grew up in the East Bay and participated in a variety of recreational and competitive sports. After multiple sport related injuries, she found Pilates and never looked back. After 26 years of high school teaching experience, she is adding Pilates to her repertoire. Outside the studio, her goal is to dance with friends well into her 90s. She is excited to join the team at Corpo Kinetic.

Cheyenne Avant

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From Cheyenne’s first exposure to Pilates, she quickly fell in love. As a competitive soccer player, she had muscle imbalances and back pain that never seemed to go away - until Pilates! Cheyenne became certified to deepen her knowledge and help others discover this magical movement practice. In class, Cheyenne layers her exercises providing modifications and progressions to inspire and challenge. She believes that an instructor should never stop learning and will be a forever student of Pilates.

Kelly Fifield

Kelly began teaching movement in college, when she started teaching dance to children and teens. After 10 years of teaching dance, Kelly’s interest in fitness and the rehabilitation of her own dance injury led her to complete her STOTT Pilates training at the Mindful Movement Collective and Blue Sparrow Pilates education centers. With a passion for positive teaching, Kelly cultivates an encouraging environment in which clients can both move and learn.

Andrea Kennerley

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Andrea was first introduced to Pilates in art school.  Throughout her career, she has leaned on the observational skills gained from her fine art background, and has a keen eye for detecting movement imbalances. 

In 2000, Andrea completed her certification with STOTT PILATES® and began teaching under the tutelage of several physical therapists.  Her style is precise, detailed, and based on postural analysis. Over her two decades in the field, Andrea has gained specialization in foot mechanics, scoliosis, prenatal and postpartum fitness, repetitive stress injuries, and fascial health.

Andrea strives to help clients increase their physical self awareness, understand the foundations of body placement, and integrate this learning into their daily lives.

Julia Hollas - Studio Owner

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Julia was first introduced to Pilates as a young dancer, and was hooked when the method helped her rehab a knee injury and return to professional dancing.  She has been teaching Pilates since 2011.  Julia has helped dancers, runners, tennis players, bikers, and golfers improve their performance, and has helped people with scoliosis, low back pain, sciatica, carpal tunnel symptoms, hip replacements, knee pain, poor posture, neck pain and more move better and feel better in their bodies.