Staff
Marc Adamec
Marc, has been a certified personal trainer for over 15 years and is the co-owner of Core Studios. As a former division I lacrosse player for the University of Delaware, he knows the importance of movement quality and the need for a strong, balanced body.
He believes that each client has different needs and goals and strives to create programs specifically designed for every person he works with. In opening Core Studios, Marc has worked to build a facility that combines that best of many training disciplines with a welcoming atmosphere for everyone who visits.
Hsiao-Fang Lee
Hsiao-Fang Lee is a former professional dancer with over 15 years of teaching experience including: dance, stretching, Pilates, GYROTONIC® and GYROKINESIS® methods. In 1997, she earned her Master's degree in dance from American University (Washington DC).
Hsiao-Fang Lee is now a GYROKINESIS® Master Trainer and soon to be a GYROTONIC® Master Trainer. She has extensive training with all aspects of the GYROTONIC® system, including GYROKINESIS®, GYROTONIC® Level I and Level II, GYROTONIC® application for golfers, all therapeutic application from Paul Horvath, Ladder, Jumping Stretching Board and GYROTONER®.
Hsiao-Fang has studied under the direction of Juliu Horvath himself, and received her GYROKINESIS® certification course and GYROTONIC® Level II course from him as well.
Hsiao-Fang Lee teaches all levels of clients and also conducts teacher training courses here in the United States as well as in China and in Taiwan.
Gurjeet Khalsa
Gurjeet has been practicing the Pilates method for eight years and is certified through the 700 hour plus Articulate Eye teacher training program. In addition to Pilates she has taught yoga for twenty years. Gurjeet enjoys sharing the experience of strength and sense of well being that Pilates brings. When not teaching Pilates, Gurjeet teaches music at the Levine School of Music.
Sharon Bourke
Sharon Bourke, is an ACE certified Personal Trainer/Health Consultant who for the past ten years has been working with corporations and individuals to effect change. Getting her start with group exercise and pre/postnatal work, she soon decided with her eye for detail, form and function, that Personal Training was the way to go. Helping people feel better drives Sharon to create unique programs that equal success for all of her clients.
Nick Harteneau
Nick is an NSPA certified personal trainer with an athletic background that includes basketball, boxing, Krav-Mega, and Eurhythmy. He became a personal trainer after working as a fashion model in New York City. Nick is dedicated to helping his clients look, feel, and move their best. He believes that healthy and sustainable lifestyle changes are the keys to fitness success.
Heike Yates
Heike has over twenty years of experience as Instructor Trainer/Program Director, National Fitness Presenter, Personal Trainer and Pilates coach.
She strongly believes in a cohesive approach to fitness and wellness incorporating flexibility into strength training. Her coaching style is based on a strong mind body connection. Heike explores alternative methods to reach each client's specific goals. Her approach will keep your sessions fun, interesting and, most importantly, effective.
For the past twenty years she trained a wide range of clients with varied abilities and ages, for instance, athletes, golfers, runners, and triathletes. Then those with therapeutic needs, such as cancer survivors, post operational joint rehabilitation, scoliosis, stenosis, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, and ostheoarthritis.
Heike's goal is to enhance your athletic performance or improving functional movement that is efficient and pain free. heike@heylifetraining.com
Jen Ferguson
Jen Ferguson grew up in the DC area, studied ballet since the age of 7, and began teaching at age 15. She received a B.S. in Ballet from Indiana University, where she discovered the potential of Pilates to increase strength and stability in the midst of an injury. Jen went on to dance profesionally with the Atlanta Ballet and Nashville Ballet and then local D.C. companies, keeping up with Pilates to stay injury-free. She was certified through Polestar-Pilates and later ACSM and has been a trainer for 10 years. Previously, Jen worked at Body Dynamics, Inc. and at Fit4Life DC. She has enjoyed working with elite athletes, skaters, dancers and the general population, and loves the diversity of the work.
Daphne Lee
Health and Fitness is a way of life and Daphne is passionate about her clients, their experiences at Core and in their health education. With a masters in Exercise Physiology and Nutrition, ACSM, ACE, AFAA and Polestar Pilates certification, her focus is on the individual needs of her clients. She is currently a PHD candidate at the university of Maryland. Her career started with a Ms. Fitness title and a management position with Cory Everson’s-6 time Ms. Olympia Fitness Facilities. Daphne’s versatility and vivacious personality make her one of the best fitness professionals in the Washington area.
Billie Meyer
Billie began practicing Pilates in Aspen Colorado as a way of managing her own chronic neck and shoulder issues. Besides experiencing the shear pleasure of the Pilates, she quickly realized the benefit of Pilates work as an underlying tool for almost any physical endeavor. She was certified through the Boulder Pilates Center and has been teaching for over eleven years. In her teaching she uses mainly classical Pilates to help her students affect positive changes through greater body awareness, re-alignment, flow, and laughter. She has a BFA from CU/ Boulder and enjoys hiking, gardening, and Zydeco dance.
Jamie Michel
Jaime was certified by the Ellie Herman Studio in Oakland California in 2003. She began training in Pilates after experiencing 2 car accidents that left her disabled and not only unable to dance, which had become a growing passion, but unable to work. After years of her own rehabilitation through the Pilates method she was able to return to work and to continue her study of Haitian and Cuban folkloric dance. Jaime has trained clients for over 5 years and is comfortable working with those clients who have special rehabilitative needs, as well as clients who desire to increase their overall level of strength and fitness. Jaime is currently working on her PhD in Community Psychology.
Erin Evans
Erin was certified as a Pilates instructor through the Articulate Eye Pilates teacher training program. The comprehensive training program requires a year of service and a minimum of 700 work/study hours. Erin has always been involved in various fitness activities, but she found that the Pilates method gave her a unique awareness and control over her body. Since teaching Pilates, Erin has found a great appreciation on how Pilates can be modified to provide beneficial results for any age or ability. Erin’s goal for each lesson she teaches is that the client leaves having learned or gained insight that can improve how they move and feel outside the Pilates studio. Erin came to the Washington area after receiving a BA in Arts Administration from Penn State University.
Keva Price
Keva Price has been a physical therapist since 2000. She has always had a passion for fitness and wellness which led her to an interest in Pilates. She has been a professional Pilates instructor since 2002. She believes it is important to strengthen the core to help prevent common injuries, rehabilitate, and improve sport performance. She primarily uses manual therapy and exercises utilizing Pilates equipment. Keva can also provide ergonomic assessments to help prevent injuries in common work settings. She loves to incorporate creative and functional exercises into all client's routines and fitness classes. Keva enjoys practicing Pilates as well as yoga, strength training and dance.
Keva Price
Licensed Physical Therapist/Professional Pilates Instructor
Yvonne Hamm
Yvonne Hamm is a certified GYROTONIC® instructor and has been teaching Gyrotonic exercise since January 2007. She received her MA in Dance from American University and is a graduate of the Dance Teachers Professional College in Hamburg, Germany. She also holds a German degree and license in psychomotor training from the Motopaeden School in Dortmund, Germany. She has taught dance and creative movement in Germany, New York City and Washington, DC for over twenty years and founded "Dance Discovery" a children's dance program in Washington, DC.
Cherie Sprenger
Cherie Morris Sprenger RYT 200 pending. Cherie trained in the YogaWorks method which takes inspiration from Ashtanga yoga and from Iyengar yoga, integrating both into its own paradigm—a balance of precision and flow. As a lawyer and mother of four, Cherie wants each student to use yoga as a tool for increasing physical and mental flexibility in their own lives, which she sees as the key to thriving in a stressful world. Cherie enjoys the give and take teaching offers to deepen her own knowledge and understanding of the many limbs of yoga.