elizabeth nalley, alicia buoni, and alison kauffman

Alicia Buoni: Owner and Certified Pilates Instructor
Alicia believes we can heal ourselves through movement and has been searching for the most efficient way to move.  She believes Pilates and gyrotonic will help to re-educate your body to move with fluidity, grace and power.

Alicia began working with the Pilates method in 1997 as professional dancer with Dance Kaleiodoscope, a modern dance company, where she had an opportunity to perform every night of the summer season with The Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, OR.

She became a certified Pilates instructor in May 2001 by Pilates, Inc. and studied with master instructor Romana Kryzanowska, a student of Joseph Pilates chosen to carry on his work. Alicia completed over 600 hours of training and assistant teaching and has worked extensively with senior trainers in Portland and Seattle before opening her own Pilates studio in November 2004.

Alicia continues to practice and learn from master trainers.  She recently completed her Gyrotonic® certification and continues to study the body and how to most efficiently and effectively help people change movement patterns that may no longer be working.

Alison Kauffman: Certified Pilates Instructor
Alison is a classically certified Pilates instructor from Power Pilates in New York City. She completed over 600 hours of training and observation with an amazing group of instructors-Susan Moran, Bob Liekens, and Phoebe Higgins. She received her mat certification from Power Pilates as well.

After graduating from the University of Colorado, Boulder, she moved to Steamboat, CO. Steamboat was her home base off and on for 8 years as she traveled the world, enjoyed skiing and mountain biking, and earned a MS from Colorado State University in Exercise Science. In 2003, she moved to Manhattan where she was first introduced to pilates. Her own self-healing inspired her to become an instructor 2 years later. Alison likes to get the body moving while identifying each individual’s needs for healing and strengthening

Elizabeth Nalley : Pilates Instructor
Elizabeth was first exposed to Pilates while training with the Houston Ballet Academy from the time she was nine until the age of seventeen. After graduating from the University of Colorado at Boulder with her BFA in Dance, she went on to receive her Pilates Teaching Certification from The Pilates Center of Boulder. From Boulder, Elizabeth moved to crazy Manhattan where she worked within the two Pilates studios Ultimate Body and P.T. and Pilates. While in Manhattan, she trained with many wonderful teachers and had the opportunity to perform with two amazing companies Dixie Fun Dance Theatre and Keigwin + Company. She is excited to be in Portland creating workouts to satisfy clients’ specific needs while incorporating an element of fun into this rewarding method of exercise.

Jamieson Diemer

Jamieson Diemer: Pilates Instructor
Jamieson was first introduced to Pilates through her studies as a ballet dancer at the schools of Atlanta Ballet, Ballet West and the University of Utah.  After experiencing the benefits of Pilates in her own body, she trained to become a Pilates instructor at The Pilates Center in Boulder, Colorado and apprenticed at Streamline Bodyworks in Salt Lake City, Utah. She completed her training in November, 2002.  She enjoys working with clientsof all ages and abilities using the Pilates Method to address the needs of individuals from the athletic to the injured. Jamieson is grateful to share in her clients journey to better health and well-being. 

Erin Munoz

Erin Munoz: Gyrotonic® Instructor
Erin joins us from NYC where she was fortunate to learn, work and grow with an exceptional group of master trainers.  Gyrotonic has improved all aspects of her physical activities – increased flexibility, stronger, less prone to injury, a faster marathon time and more overall enjoyment in the freedom of movement (& life). 

Erin continues to saturate herself in Gyrotonic for a deeper understanding of all that it has to offer, for herself and her clients.  She is certified in Gyrotonic, Gyrokinesis and the Jumping-Stretching Board.  She has also studied with Paul Horvath in his Scoliosis Therapeutic Workshop using the GyrotonicTower.  She is an authorized Gyrotonic Pre-trainer.

Paulo Galullo

Paulo Galullo: Pilates Apprentice
Paolo Galullo was certified in April 2008 in the Pilates Method through Power Pilates, New York, one of the most prestigious Pilates schools in the country.  To his teaching he brings six years of dedicated personal practice.  In San Francisco, he worked closely for three years with Master Trainer Suzette Slaughter, his mentor and coach.

Paolo believes that it is possible to attain and maintain a youthful physique for your entire life.  He is deeply inspired by his Neapolitan Grandmother, who embraced exercise and good health throughout her long life, and became certified as a massage therapist at the age of 75!  Through his work as a mental health counselor, he is motivated to help clients work through barriers in achieving their fitness and health goals. 

Paolo lives up to the true spirit of Joseph Pilates in his dedication to the Pilates Method.  The Power Pilates teacher training program was developed by Susan Moran-Perich and Bob Liekens, two principal Pilates heirs, who seek to preserve the original intent of Joseph Pilates’ exercises on the apparatus he created.  Paolo is looking forward to sharing Joseph Pilates’ classical technique and youthful spirit in achieving his clients’ goals.