our team
Shasta Weitz
Shasta fell in love with Pilates in 2003. After taking her first apparatus class, she immediately signed up for Teacher Training at Core Pilates NYC. Over the years she has been grateful to attend workshops with the Pilates Masters and their Students including Lolita San Miguel, Ron Fletcher, Alan Herdman, Mary Bowen, Mari Windsor, Elizabeth Larkam, John Garey and many others. Shasta lives with her husband Doug and 2 children, Charlie and Dash, in East Hampton, NY
Shasta is a Clinical Pilates Instructor with over 20 years of teaching experience in The Hamptons, NYC and Westchester with clients from 12 - 90 years old.
Selected Additional Credentials:
Clinical Pilates Diploma - Breathe Education
Former Club Pilates Master Trainer - Running National Teacher Trainings
Named as Top 10 Club Pilates Instructors Internationally in 2018
Certified Pre/Post Natal/Pelvic Floor Exercise Specialist
TRX Certified Instructor - additional TRX training with Pilates 949
Pink Ribbon Breast Cancer Certified Exercise Specialist
Institute for Integrative Nutrition Certified Health Coach
Lauren Tekverk
Lauren, is a contemporary Pilates instructor with a classical background from the Kane School NYC & Ramona Kryzanowska.
She believes body awareness and a strong mind-body connection gives us the ability to connect with our restorative potential. In class, she places strong emphasis on breathing as a key to mastering the principles of Pilates (concentration, centering, control, precision, fluidity) and for its ability to energize the body while assisting in the execution of the exercise. Lauren is known for her playful and supportive teaching style, strong knowledge of anatomy, physical alignment.
Vivid imagery and regular feedback inspire students to test their strengths and feel their best!
She has been in the Fitness field for over thirteen years. Her background includes practical experience and formal education in these key areas:
All levels Pilates mat and equipment certification (Kane School NYC), Holistic Nutrition Certification (Institute of Integrative Nutrition/ Teachers College at Columbia Univ.), private & group instruction, injury prevention, muscular imbalance correction, core strengthening, trunk stabilization, exercise modifications and variations specific to personal needs.
Jennifer DeVane-Mulhern
Jen first fell in love with Pilates as a dance instructor in the early 2000s. She loved how she felt after doing Pilates and was excited to pass this onto her dance students. After almost a decade as a student of the Pilates Method, she gained her mat Pilates teacher certification in 2010. A pre/postnatal certification and her comprehensive certification with Balanced Body soon followed.
Over the past 14 years as a Pilates instructor, Jen has done many workshops geared towards more efficient and functional movement and has experience working with clients of all ages and abilities. Since becoming a mother in 2018, pelvic floor health and pre/postnatal education and care have become very important to her as she experienced dramatic changes in her own body.
Jen is passionate about Pilates and views the teacher-client relationship as a collaboration. She tailors her classes and sessions to the wants and needs of her students and guides them in finding connections between what they do in their Pilates sessions to daily movement for the purpose of improving movement, relieving pain, and living life to the fullest.